Word: haved
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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The following statement of the allotment of seats to the Harvard-Yale football game is prepared in reply to the numerous inquiries and complaints that have reached me during the past ten days. It may help us to trace to the proper source the dissatisfaction so generally expressed.
The total number of tickets printed for this game is 33,774. In order to place all applicants for seats on an equality, no free list was established. All tickets that have left the hands of the Graduate Manager have been paid for. They are allotted:
The tickets sent to Yale are in the centre of the North Stand. Those sent to the Harvard Club of New York fill one entire section near the centre of the South Stand. The players, coachers and others in the preceding table are regarded as privileged, and special seats were...
The system followed by the Graduate Manager is, in the main, one of established custom. A large number of persons have always been considered to have special privileges and the sale of seats to them this year has but slightly exceeded that of the large games in 1897 and 1898...
The sale of so large a number of special seats to players, coaches and others constitutes an abuse for which the students and graduates are largely responsible. Men who have played upon the teams are considered to have earned certain rights and privileges, which the management is expected to grant...