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...people like Eygenraam, emigration-to Australia, Canada, South Africa and other countries that have room-seems the best solution; because of the tight quota (3,153 a year), few Dutch emigrants get to the U.S. Some, like Harrie Lamers and his twelve children who headed homeward last week after 18 months in Canada, are too homesick to stay in foreign lands. But while the twelve Lamers children were coming home, the 14 Branderhorst children, and others like them, were leaving Holland. Said Simon Eygenraam, en route with his wife and four children to "New Holland" on the Volendam: "There must...
...play called "I Remember Mama" is apparent not long after the first rise of the curtain. Both plays deal with the minor trials and tribulations of a happy-type family in which the children are experiencing their first taste of life and love. Both plays have their proper quota of eccentric uncles, indulgent fathers, and strong-willed mothers. Both plays have been based on successful and partly-auto-biographical books. I should be surprised if both books have not been honored with a condensation in "The Reader's Digest." As "I Remember Mama" went straight to the hearts...
...years Harvard men clung fondly to the notion that Adams House food was superior food. The tense air about the early evening crowd in the dining hall line as the interhouse quota slowly filled up, the crushed look on the young faces of those who did not make it-these things, one used to think, showed something about the quality of Adams food...
About ten percent of the University's Red Feather quota remains to be raised, Robert H. Haynes, chairman of the Harvard Unit of the Community Fund, reported yesterday...
Amory led the 16 man field running for the school board with the 4756 votes he polled on the initial count but he is still 793 votes shy of the quota for election...