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...January national total is 60,000 and ordinarily Massachusetts' quota would be 1,800. But with a heavy backlog of voluntary enlistments in the state, smaller demands can be made on the Selective Service system. At the present time 10,000 men make up the backlog, which means that the number of inductees can be considerably decreased...
...their appraisals of the poet's work. He argues, with convincing passages from the essays on "The Idea of a Christian Society" and the recent 'Notes towards a Definition of Culture," that Eliot has on occasion condoned fascism, and has actively advocated a theory of education based on the quota system and the premise that only the aristocracy are entitled as of right to higher learning...
...found out how classless a doctor's daughter could be in a "classless" society when she was refused admission to a university. She was told: "You must be of proletarian origin in order to study here. You belong to the employee category, for which we have no quota." She was finally admitted to classes at the Oil Refinery Institute, worked part-time watching boiler gauges. A month's wages came to 83 rubles at a time when a loaf of bread cost...
Operating for the first time last year, the College d'Europe takes a quota of graduate students from the universities of each country, with the purpose of creating a standing group of administrators who could be called upon to head a United European government...
...High Quota...