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...their blood crusade with enthusiasm which has slowly decreased until they now fail to keep their appointments entirely. Last week 19 students didn't appear, leaving vacancies which might have been filled by more willing persons with pints of valuable blood. The Navy has placed its weekly quota at 3000 pints; last week only 2,388 pints were collected, and the weekly average is only...
...initial closing date of the ERC was set for today, Perkins believed, in order to show to Reserve just where it stands and allow it to reallocate quotas. Overapplied colleges may now be able to take more men into quotas enlarged by a transfer from less applied colleges. Harvard's quota is still sufficient. Perkins said, to receive quite a few enlistments...
Remedies. There was no mistaking the urgency in Washington, but the remedies applied to date have been inadequate. Month ago, WPA upped its Puerto Rican quota from 18,000 to 25,000. But this was just a drop in the bucket: unemployment has risen to 322,000, almost half the island's employables. The war Shipping Administration's promise of 30,000 tons of shipping space a month was coupled with the admission that this "practically cuts the island off from shipping commerce." (In normal times, .shipping averaged four times as much.) Most help came from the Agricultural...
...offer an equal opportunity for the largest Freshman class in the history of the College, the War Department has assigned a quota of 442 to the class of 1946. With 177 of these positions filled, 160 of them by members of the Army R.O.T.C., 265 enlistments are still available for those who wish to join...
Since all military R.O.T.C. men are required to join the Army Enlisted Reserve, this considerably reduces the number of positions available to students who do not take the course. Of the Sophomore quota of 322, 140 automatically go to members of the College military unit. Eighty are claimed by R.O.T.C. members of the Junior class, while 70 are taken by the class...