Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale Athletic Association would return some of the tickets which had been sent to them, and the 247 which were returned were applied to Sophomore and Freshman applications. The H. A. A. will recommend to the new committee that the allotment be changed so that in Group 2, Section "c" shall change place with Section...
...first place, applicants for one seat are always put in the middle of the field. These applications have preference over all others and form the cheering section. In the Yale game they numbered 1500, and as there are 611 seats to a section in the stone part of the Stadium, this meant that all of Sections 32 and 33 and several rows in the colonnade were allotted entirely to one-seat...
When will the public learn that a college is merely a vertical section of society? The proportion between the classes is not strictly the same as in the outside, world, to be sure, but all classes are there. You have your millionaires' sons, your week-enders, those who merely make the campus a G. H. Q. for their social activities; but you also have sons of butchers and bakers and candlestick makers who either drain the paternal pocket-book dry or else put in all their spare time doing odd jobs in order to get the wherewithal...
...estimated that 50,000 filed into the Palmer Stadium to-day to watch Yale and Princeton in their annual gridiron contest," he reads. "Yale took the field at five minutes of 2, and was greeted by salvos and applause and cheering from the Yale section. A minute later the Princeton team appeared, and this was a signal for the Princeton cohorts to rise as one man and give vent to their famous 'Undertaker's Song...
...Blevitch becomes the most unpopular man in that section of the country. Every one turns to see what a man of his stamp can look like. He is so embarrassed that he slinks down in his seat and refuses to answer the call...