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There are now about 273 men on the blacklist of the Athletic Association. The purpose of this list is to keep tickets from going to people who are not graduates of the University, and to make it possible for each Harvard man to have to tickets to which he is entitled. If speculation were permitted, there would not be enough tickets to go around to the men who should rightly have them. The men who co-operate with the Athletic Association in carrying out its regulations in regard to the proper use of tickets are not so much defeating...
Speculation is the surest way to get on the blacklist, but it is not the only way. It a present member of the College, wishing four tickets, applies for the two to which he is entitled and uses an additional two acquired under the application of a graduate friend who does not expect to attend the game, he accomplishes the blacklisting of the graduate. Moreover, anyone who surrenders his tickets for use in his own family will be put on the blacklist. These two possibilities merely emphasize the fact that everyone must occupy in person one of the seats...
...student who violates the conditions under which football tickets are being assigned will be put on the "blacklist." That knowledge is common property. But it is never realized in its full significance except by men whose names have gone into that very real, very definite, and not at all visionary black book kept by the Athletic Association with much labor and accuracy. Aside from all questions of morals and college spirit it is no whit short of blind foolhardiness that could lead a man to take the risk of having to repent at leisure, when the paltry profit made from...
...that speculation in Harvard football tickets is a crime against Harvard College. Moreover, it is a crime that under the new scheme of allotment is almost certain to be discovered. This may not mean a great deal to a new student who has not learned the dread of the blacklist; and it probably means less than nothing to a man who can see a few immediate dollars farther than he can his own honor and future pleasure. But we venture to say that to almost every Senior the crime of speculation begets a penalty awful enough to keep him from...
There are now 273 men on the blacklist...