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...ceilings to the marks of the wooden forms on the poured concrete piers, the new city hall is more bold than beautiful. But it possesses a rough-and-tough force and assertiveness that Jack Kennedy might, with his Boston accent, have called "vigah." Predictably, it has drawn its quota of quips, being labeled variously "the blockhouse," "an upside-down pagoda," and "the tomb of Cheops." But informal polls indicate that an increasing number of secretaries and taxi drivers are coming to like it. The architects hope that with time the city hall will accumulate the usual collection of flags...
...Jews. He is a patsy for just about any call for a benefit performance or public function-a dinner for an old friend, a White House invitation, a sports-award shindig. Sometimes, when a benefit fails to raise its quota, Bob will write a personal check for the difference. Though he gets $20,000 to $25,000 for a college date, he always turns the check back to the college scholarship fund...
...through October would thereby be selected. Or the boards could fill the year's total call by using months as the time limit, drafting those born early in each month. It could draft those born after the 15th of every month. Or they could fill each month's draft quota with men born only in that month, probably a more inequitable system since monthly calls vary by as much as 10,000. This system can be varied infinitely. Constant changes, however, are considered too administratively cumbersome to be workable...
Peterson calls the docket system "a kind of quota based on the excellence of the boys involved." While it no doubt favors such places as Exeter and Andover, Peterson believes that "Harvard should maintain a Yankee flavor, and besides, schools like these were themselves selective in choosing their students." Dana M. Cotton, the senior member of the admissions committee with 23 years under his belt, points out that Exeter and Andover are not supplying as many Harvard students as they used to, "which the headmasters there understand but which is difficult to explain to a parent who sent...
Admissions officials begin to squirm when the word "quota" turns up in conversation. "The only quota is the quota of common sense," says Cotton. Doermann doesn't think the docket system imposes any quota at all, "but I can see why someone wouldn't believe...