Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Government 1 uses a quota system of grading that is "unfair and inequitable," alleged the chairman of the HCUA committee on examination grading Monday...
...quota system limits each section man to giving only an allotted number of honor grades in his section, said Thomas A. Timberg '64. He said that although other courses use a similar system, "nowhere is it so stringent as it is in Government...
...section man feels that more students in his section deserve honor grades than the quota allows, he must bargain for the honor grades of other sections," Timberg claimed...
...section man in Gov. 1 substantiated the charge that a quota system is used, but he said that "all classes must set some sort of standard." He argued that the quota system "is not inequitable, but is for equity's sake...
There is another side to the program. To keep from being completely inundated with surplus farm products, the Government, in sheer self-defense, imposes production controls. The principal instrument is the acreage quota: the farmer is assigned a certain number of acres of a given price-supported crop; his quota depends upon how many acres of that crop he has grown in the past. Despite such controls, the surpluses keep piling...