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University contributions to the Cambridge Red Cross drive are already over the quota, though the drive has another three weeks...
Figures released yesterday by John W. Holl, Director of Student Employment and head of the Harvard division of the drive, showed the Harvard total to be $12,694.55 on April 11. The quota...
...notice, signed by William H. Ashley, militia general and Missouri businessman, was just about as vague as most other help-wanted ads, but it brought results. Applicants fresh from "the grogshops and other sinks of iniquity in the rough frontier river town of St. Louis" helped fill the quota, and on April 3, 1823, a year after the ad appeared, Ashley's "enterprising young men" hit the trail. The duties of the new hands: to push their wav to the mouth of the Yellowstone River, erect a fortified trading post there and trap beaver in the surrounding country...
Girls with low numbers have found themselves especially popular this week. Those who would normally move with one or two friends have been approached by unluckier acquaintances who want to get in under the quota of six. If the five top girls in a class each apply for the same dormitory, and each takes with her a group of six, the class limit in that dormitory will be more than filled. The sixth highest girl of the entire class can find herself out of her first choice. Although this is an extreme example, the overwhelming popularity of Moors has brought...
...fortnight ago the Constitution claimed victory: it reached its quota first. But last week the Journal won out after all: it acquired the Constitution lock, stock & pachyderm, and merged the papers...