Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recruiting was halted in 43 of the States which had met or passed their quotas. No State has exceeded its quota by more than New Mexico's 224% of expected enlistments. The five States which have not met their quotas are those with the highest concentration of doctors and patients-New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Illinois, California...
...Since then probably one out of three U.S. physicians has joined the colors. The Army's adjutant general has banned the release of specific figures, but last week the Procurement & Assignment Service of WMC (which recruits the doctors) said it was a safe assumption that the entire 1942 quota of 42,000 doctors had been filled...
Student Council drives have always been an underrated service to students. By performing all distribution personally, the Council has prevented continual drives by individual agencies each intent only upon filling its own quota. This has eliminated an eternal undergraduate nuisance, and guaranteed student support of numerous worth-while causes. Without such a system students would be called on for far more than the modest seven dollars asked by the Fund. They would be tossed from "worthy cause" to "worthy cause," winding up too strapped to support that final "last drive" which really the worthiest of them...
Despite the ARP's plea for Volunteer Firemen, Cambridge's quota to date is a mere drop in the bucket. The Cambridge fire department has lost valuable men to the armed forces and the assistance of Volunteers will be a necessity if a large five breaks loose. Yet for the proposed squad of a thousand Volunteers, only a hundred have showed...
...Telescoping courses into six weeks resulted in shortened reading lists and laboratory and lecture schedules. Intensive study at the two course rate left students with neither time nor material for the integration necessary to the success of Harvard education. Science students, particularly, found it impossible to digest the full quota of factual material usually presented, while those with long lab assignments were over-whelmed by the attempt to jam sixteen weeks' work into the five-and-one-half allotted. Short exam periods immediately following final lectures cut out all review and forced students to resort to "coffee-and-benzadrine" cramming...