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First for the facts: at present the H. A. A. has received 101 undergraduate applications for the Princeton game; it takes at the very least 300 men in the cheering section to even form the "H". It is certainly out of the question to consider the possible railroad strike as a cause of student lethargy; it hardly seems as if many men are seriously deterred from buying a ticket from fear of spending three dollars for nothing. The question apparently amounts to this, do they want to go? The answer will be found in the files...
Finally, on Saturday it was evident that there was a willingness on the part of the men in the cheering section to sing. Would it not be possible for some member of the Glee Club, who has had experience in this line to be appointed to lead the singing? We have a remarkable collection of football songs many of which are familiar to most students. Why not let them be heard...
During the past week there has been expressed no little dissatisfaction with the present cheering situation. Part of the criticism has been directed at the lack of a central cheering section and part at the custom of having the captains of major sport teams act as cheer leaders. Last night it was announced that sections 32 and 33 are reserved for H. A. A. ticket holders. This means that in those sections there will be no one but Harvard supporters, unencumbered and no longer obliged to compete with outsiders interested not in seeing Indiana win but in seeing Harvard lose...
With the arrival of the Paris Saturday at New York the last members of the Harvard section of the American student Reconstruction Association returned to resume their studies...
...available seats than in the Yale Bowl, the limit will be two seats instead of three, as with last year. For both the Yale and Princeton games an applicant for more than one seat may elect to have one of his seats for his personal occupancy in the cheering section. The other seats will be allotted as explained below. Undergraduates may apply for seats for friends at both games, but must so state on the blank, and such applications will be filled if there are sufficient seats after the "personal use" applications...