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...splurge, but whatever the reason there have been few of their products worth playing more than halfway through within the past few weeks. None of the smaller companies specializing in jazz records--Blue Note, Commodore, and Signature--have produced anything this fall. The larger companies turn out their usual quota of bagatelles and trivia every week, but only here and there does a pearl of price appear, a record which can be listened to more than once with unabated enjoyment...
Maintenance of a full quota of students is certainly the major problem. So far the draft has radically affected only the Law School, which unfortunately depends more on tuition than any other branch of the University, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. What will happen to enrollment in case of war, nobody can even guess, although the example of England leaves hope that the College will not be too hard hit. But all during the emergency and after it as well, the problem will be one of lowering expenses so that tax-hit fathers will be able...
...selectees had a long talk with Kerr trying to persuade him to add two of their teammates, Vern Miller and Dick Pfister, to the list of players who will travel west on December 18. Kerr however, is allowed a narrow quota of only 22 players and since a number of Big Nine stars have already accepted invitations he was unable to find places for the other two stand-out Crimson linemen...
Under the complicated P.R. system, a quota is established form the number of valid voice polled, and once a candidate has received enough to fill this quota, the rest of his votes automatically are distributed among the second choices marked on the ballots. Thus none are wasted...
With a full quota of fliers already enrolled in the Harvard civilian pilot training course, five more undergraduates are taking the Fall preliminary course by filling in across the river at Tufts, where the supply of vacancies exceed the demand...