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Originally, the Council Committee headed by John K. Lally '49 had hoped to obtain the use of the HAA's newly-surfaced parking field near the Stadium at a cost only of the State's dollar-a-year licensing...
...However, HAA Business Manager Carrol F. Getchell decided yesterday that users of the Soldiers Field lot ought to pay rent of some sort to help in the payment of taxes. And once rental is charged, a parking field falls under a Boston ordinance which requires a 24-hour guard, fences, fire extinguishers, white lines to mark exits, and permits from the city council and the fire department...
That cheer is the closest thing to official appreciation the band receives. The HAA recognizes its existence, if not its worth, by providing not quite enough money for one trip each season. What the HAA does not recognize is that, along with the unquestionable additions it makes to the color of a football game, both aural and visual, the band adds hard cash to the gate receipts. Although this point cannot be proven, it also cannot be contested very violently in the face of the fact that the Princeton and Yale Athletic Associations, neither of which can back a band...
Next year there will be three games away. If the HAA does not pay the $7,000 the band will need in order to play at these games, the organization will not offer a repeat on this season's self-reliant excursion to Virginia, which turned into a financial disaster. The HAA may point helplessly at its annual deficit. Such a deficit, however, in a university that almost always contrives to have every individual department round out the year in the black, is largely a matter confined to the Treasurer's bookkeeping. If the HAA were to take a lively...
...move is an experiment both for the HAA and for Brooks House. PBH has organized the project with good-will and practicality, while the athletic directors have shown sufficiently that, with a bleak wooden expanse in sight every Saturday afternoon, they are willing to give a few free seats for children...