Word: ticket
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...Council, "most important of College organizations," generally follows two courses of action, according to Dean Bender. "It calls attention to grievances and needs of the students, such as parking shortages and unsatisfactory football ticket sales, and it studies the University's major system and policies with the long range interests of the students as its guide...
Those who are looking for a scapegoat will undoubtedly aim their fire in the general direction of the HAA for it presents an inviting target, but as far as this writer is concerned, the HAA cannot be hold responsible. Two weeks ago the Columbia authorities asked ticket manager Lunden how many tickets he wanted. They suggested Harvard would need only 8000, or the usual number given the opposing team at an early season Columbia home game...
...guessed very wrong. A fabulous season ticket sale gobbled up 4000 of the seats (those in sections 2, 3, 4, and 6, section 5 being saved for the few undergraduate applicants). Saturday night Lunden totaled up his ticket requests and noted with surprise and horror that he already had 6000 applications for the 5000 seats. In desperation he phoned New York and got three more sections' worth of ducats, the not-so-good tickets in sections 1, 7, and 8. They disappeared yesterday...
Lunden has made an honest mistake. There was no evidence two weeks ago of the unprecedented demand for Columbia tickets. He had to guess and he guessed wrong. Much as it may grieve many of the fire-eaters, you cannot fairly denounce the ticket denounce as a hopeless hungler, especially after Saturday's loss to Stanford. Yet the grotesque situation remains. 9500 people want to go to New York to see the Crimson play Columbia. Only the wiseacre undergraduates, the guys who applied last week and got section 5, or the fifty yard line, will see the game from good...
...Lard. Big Mike had been in bad odor ever since his election last November; people just wouldn't take the trouble to understand him. He had gotten elected, for instance, by running on the Democratic ticket as a former University of Michigan football player, and a patriot who had served 6½ years in the Marine Corps. Then it developed that he had never been to Michigan, had been a marine only 23 months (before Pearl Harbor), and had been parted from the service after three courts-martial...