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Late receipts boosted the food fund total to $11,245 last night as the drive pushed steadily toward its $25,000 quota...
Although the populous Houses, Yard halls, and graduate school dormitories are expected to bear the brunt of the drive, their donations alone cannot fill Harvard's high quota, and the campaign will stall unless every commuter and faculty member contributes his share. The fact that the meager contributions of commuters have not kept pace with the general enthusiasm is largely due to an unavoidable technical imperfection in the campaign. Unable to solicit donations by a door-to-door method, the committee relied on individual letters to bring in non-resident funds and has rammed up against the same problem that...
That assurance meant that correspondents must keep their eyes on the conference-and not go peeking down side alleys. Even so, 73 reporters, photographers and radiomen got set to sail or fly (round trip fare, $1,084) to Moscow. Then the Russians suddenly set a U.S. quota of only 20 (blaming it on the housing shortage). Last week the press was howling mad. In Washington a committee of correspondents spent three days trying to whittle down the press party, finally sent a priority list of 52 to State Secretary George Marshall with a strong protest against the "shockingly inadequate" quota...
...tentative quota was also set by Watt's group for the three boards of the Advocate--ten for the literary, ten for the business, and four for the art board. Watt made it clear, however, that these numbers were not permanent and only represented what he felt the magazine could handle in its early stages...
...course colleges could avoid the tax by booting out enough of those students not so fortunate as to be residents of Massachusetts and putting further admissions on a strict quota basis. The bill was designed to encourage precisely this action. Its framers feel that local boys and girls are being denied their fair share of the state's admittedly outstanding educational opportunities. Failing to attain its primary intent, the bill would secure to the state a few millions of additional revenue as consolation for its flouted sovereignty...