Word: system
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...desire seats between the goal lines. As there are in the neighborhood of 14,000 such seats on both sides of the field, it may readily be seen that hundreds of people are certain to be disappointed. The seats for season ticket holders were drawn by lot on a system which had my approval and no preference was given to graduates or undergraduates. The fifth group of the first table received their tickets by lot, giving preference to the members of the Graduates' Athletic Association. The greater number of this group have seats in the stands behind the goal posts...
...prevalent view that the team this year has not been in condition to play football is correct, and, for the present, it is useless to look further for an explanation of its lack of success. A system of play intended for a team of eleven men cannot be tested unless there are eleven men able to play it. The team has not had the same make-up in any two games of the season. The men were in better physical condition in the Harvard game than at any previous time this season, but owing to long absences from practice, caused...
...turn should give way to the next generation. However ready we graduates may be to take advantage of the privileges which have been given us, I am much mistaken if there are not many who feel that, when it interferes with the interests of the undergraduates, the present system is unjust and ought to be reformed. Edward Robinson...
...general indignation excited by the mismanagement in distributing seats for the Yale game has brought to light some points in the existing system of giving out tickets which I should like to call attention to in your columns if I may have space. The management has evidently considered that men who work or sweat for Harvard are entitled to receive favors: for that they are doing more than giving football players good seats for their families or intimate friends is painfully plain to all of us. But in acting up to this belief the management has either discriminated most unfairly...
...seems to me that this whole system which has borne such bad fruits this year is wrong. A man who plays in a game ought to have tickets enough for the people whom he wishes to have come to see him play. But surely this is all. Harvard undergraduate organizations are not commercial in spirit, nor are they like those in a political ward. The men who deserve favors at the hands of the College are those who would be the last to demand them, especially if they knew them to be granted at the cost of most...