Word: tickets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
Permit an undergraduate, who has cheered the football team during his four years in College, to enter a protest against the distribution of tickets for the Yale game by the football management. Certainly undergraduate holders of season tickets have a right to expect better seats than those in the corners, on the ends, or on the Yale side. It seems as if, with 34,000 seats at its disposal, the management has been injudiciously liberal in its disposal of tickets to "old players, coaches and members of the 'Varsity team" and perhaps to others not mentioned in the CRIMSON...
...want to put just a few words in your paper to cite a situation of questionable justice. I, an undergraduate, bought a season ticket and supported the football team by attending all the games throughout the season, preliminary to the Yale game. I wanted to see the Yale game and accordingly sent in my season ticket with four dollars for two seats. I had done all that any undergraduate could do; I had complied with every condition. When the seats were distributed I found that I had two seats in the extreme corner section, twenty-five yards behind the goal...
...demand for seats at the Yale game has been so great that there are now no $2.00 seats left on the sides of the field, the applications from old players, coaches and members of the 'Varsity team, and the applications from season ticket holders having used up all except those reserved for Yale. Graduates who apply for seats will save the management a great deal of inconvenience in returning money by asking for $1.50 seats instead of $2.00. No applications from graduates can be filled from $2.00 seats...
...demand for seats at the Yale game has been so great that there are now no $2.00 seats left on the sides of the field, the applications from old players, coaches and members of the 'Varsity team, and the applications from season ticket holders having used up all except those reserved for Yale. Graduates who apply for seats will save the management a great deal of inconvenience in returning money by asking for $1.50 seats instead of $2.00. No applications from graduates can be filled from $2.00 seats...