Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...prepared an alphabetical list of the students who have purchased tickets to the Harvard Yale game, together with the numbers of their seats. This list will be taken down to New Haven. If there is any counterfeiting of tickets the alphabetical list will be used to settle the ownership of the seats in question...
Until 1870 the boat houses used were mere sheds, of private ownership. The sheds were unsafe and unsubstantial, since the ice was apt to carry them away in winter, making them dangerous to keep boats in. It was decided that some improvement was necessary and in 1869 the plans for the present boat house were drawn up. The plans called for $7000, about $4000 of which was raised by subscriptions, baseball games, and amateur theatricals. It was completed in 1869. After the house was finished the University Boat Club, which built it, found it impossible to raise the remainder...