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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sale of seats at Yale for the Springfield game, took place Monday, and from all accounts was even worse and more uncomfortable for the students than our sale of tickets last year. The students were not allowed to have substitutes in line and consequently they themselves had to sit up all night. The line began forming about night fall and by midnight there were 300 men in line. They passed the night as best they could in chairs and blankets. Of the 5000 tickets sent to New Haven 3000 were disposed of Monday and the rest went to the team...
...night the Harvard Republican Club will hold its big rally at Tremont Temple in Boston. There will be no admittance by ticket except for those who will sit on the platform. A large section, however, will be reserved for members of the university wearing the Harvard Republican badge or button. These may be obtained at Leavitt and Peirce...
...suggestion which was made yesterday morning in regard to having backs put on some of the seats on Holmes Field, is one which the base ball management should surely adopt. To ask ladies to sit through a ball game on bleachers without any backs to them is little short of barbarous, especially when it is perfectly possible and perfectly simple to have backs put on the seats. It may be a little trouble, and it will cost a little something, but these minor considerations ought not to stand in the way of the comfort of those who pay their money...
...seats are exceedingly narrow and painfully uncomfortable. It is almost impossible for ladies, and especially elderly ladies, to sit on these seats during a whole game, besides it is an injustice to the holders of these seats to compel them to pay the same price as for the other seats and give them such abominable seats. It would only take a comparatively small sum to make the seats perfectly comfortable, and it should be done for the sake of the ladies who will wear the crimson on that...
...main floor will be used for the dining room, and the kitchen, storerooms, etc., will be placed in the basement. The room will be finished with a hardwood floor and wainscoting. There will be accommodations for five hundred students and as many as fourteen will be allowed to sit at one table. Vertner Kenerson '91, who is now studying in the Yale Medical School, will have charge of the management...