Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...other reason for the poor showing of the minor sports is the small size of the gate receipts, and we believe that this difficulty could be obviated by putting on sale at $7 or $8 a blanket ticket admitting to all but the most important games played by Harvard teams. Such a ticket would undoubtedly sell as well as the H.A.A. tickets now in use, and would guarantee support for every branch of athletics...
...deficit as in the year before, but the gain was due to wholesale reduction of expenses. Before long the limit in this direction will be reached and judging from past experience, the receipts will continue to grow smaller every year. By abolishing the subscription system, and substituting the blanket ticket and the enlarged football stands, we believe that the total surplus will be as great as, if not greater than, at present, and an exceedingly troublesome and obnoxious system will be done away with...
Admission tickets may be obtained by applying by mail to the Curator of the Lowell Institute, 491 Boylston street, and enclosing a stamped addressed envelope for each ticket desired...
...last despatch from the general to Jefferson Davis. In 1867 he received his degree from the University of Virginia; fourteen years later he was appointed United States district attorney for the Eastern district of Virginia, by President Arthur, and was also elected to Congress from Virginia on the Republican ticket as representative at large. After his defeat in the election for governor of the state in 1885, he moved to New York to practice law. Mr. Wise has written several books on different subjects...
...served as second lieutenant until General Lee's surrender in 1865. He carried the last message from Lee to President Davis. After the war, Mr. Wise returned to the University and was graduated in 1867. Fourteen years later he was elected to Congress from Virginia on the Republican ticket, soon after he ran for governor, but was defeated. Since 1885 he has been engaged in the practice of law in New York and has written books on several subjects...