Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barring of stags has, however, raised financial problems, the Social Chairman admitted. Only two dormitories will be used instead of the customary three or four, and ticket prices must rise to $3.50 per couple, compared to $2.50 last year. "We were all right when we had stags in the winter," Miss Cutter said, "but we lost money when we eliminated them in the spring...
...football season ended a week ago, the 1956 season is still ten months away, and College students--providing that their Yale friends back home will let them--would probably like to forget the whole subject for a while. The Athletic Department, however, is not forgetting. As Ticket Manager Frank O. Lunden indicated last week, the H.A.A. has already begun thinking about a new system of distributing football tickets next year, and will meet with the Undergraduate Athletic Council this winter to discuss the problem. At this time, before Christmas, midyears, and hockey have completely obliterated memories of the fall...
...juniors and seniors at the College, the most significant thing about the present ticket plan is its infinite superiority to the system that it replaced. Anyone who remembers waiting in line at the Union every week--seniors on Monday, juniors on Tuesday, etc.--and arriving there at 7 a.m. in order to get good seats, will readily agree that the system now in use ranks second only to a pair of good halfbacks among the greatest possible boons of the H.A.A...
...H.A.A.'s ticket system this fall did not confine its mix-ups to Thursdays, Friday, and Saturdays, however. Besides scrambling at the end of the week to get their tickets, undergraduates frequently had to scour the College on Monday merely to get the envelopes with which to apply for tickets. A similar problem became even more infuriating a week before the Yale game, when House superintendents ran out of Yale discount slips on Monday and gave out Dartmouth ones in stead. A few days later the H.A.A. announced that it could not accept the Dartmouth slips, so some 130 upperclassmen...
...hard look at the music business and in the process, it has uncovered a mass of hitherto uncharted specifics. Item: community orchestras lose about 35% of their subscribers a year, hence must continually make new contacts. Item: it takes an average of 20 contacts to sell one new season ticket...