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...fall of 1949, an exemption quota of 25 percent was established for English A. Previously exemptions in the course had been limited to some three percent from a class who achieved a certain level of proficiency on a test. This year the 25 percent exemption quota was still in operation, and another 200 wriggled away from the freshman composition course by enrolling in General Education A, and experimental course in which the students explore subject matter through short compositions. This course, if it is judged successful, may soon displace English A altogether...
...Ticket Agency obtained the additional allotment yesterday because it sold easily the 400 ducats in its original quota last week, according to ticket chairman Warren J. Abbott '51. Abbott said he would close down the sales Friday if all the extra tickets aren't sold before then...
Eighty-four girls joined Radcliffe's only chartered political group, Students For Democratic Action. S.D.A., which last year barely filled its membership quota, rounded up political stragglers in the last three weeks through a program of meetings, speakers, and election work...
...would have to wait a while to become an American again. The young ex-bomber pilot who cast off his citizenship in 1948 to become a "citizen of the world" got a chill welcome home from the Government. Davis, who re-entered the U.S. last April under the French quota as "a stateless person," will be treated like any other alien married to an American, the Justice Department said-meaning that he will have to wait two years before he can get his citizenship...
...prevent overcrowding, a quota system would probably have to be set up so that an equal number were allowed to go to the Houses as went to the Harkness Commons. The only complaint voiced so far about the plan is the amount of extra accounting involved, but as all dining halls are run by a central University department, this objection is not strong enough to block the program...