We notice with a good deal of regret that the sale of reserved seats for the Princeton game on Decoration Day is to be made a public sale without any definite limit. The sale is advertised to begin at Leavitt & Peirce's on Thursday morning at seven o'clock and the limit to the number of tickets each man can buy is to rest wholly with those who are selling the tickets.

The results of such a system of selling the tickets are sure to be very unsatisfactory. In the first place the college will have to get up at some unearthly hour in the morning to get a place in the line, or else hire some small boy to stand in the line over night. As for the graduates who live out of Cambridge, they cannot come out here so early, and it is a wrong system which makes them go to the expense of hiring men to stand in the line. Then even after the line is formed, as we all know from the sale of seats for the Springfield game last fall, the men in the rear of the line are apt to be shut out wholly from getting seats at all. We could hardly conceive of a much more unsatisfactory plan than that of leaving the limit to be decided on at the time by those who have charge of selling the tickets. Moreover if the sale is to be public, nothing prevents an outsider from buying seats to the exclusion of a student or graduate of the college. These objections, it seems to us, are sufficient to condemn the present system.

It is, of course easy to criticise, and we should hesitate in making our objections if we did not feel that we had a substitute to propose. It seem to us that the undergraduates and graduates of the college should have the first chance at the seats. The game is a college game, and the team is supported by graduates and undergraduates of Harvard. It is eminently fitting that they should be provided for before the general public. The scheme which we suggest, therefore, is this. Let graduates and undergraduates be allowed to send to the manager of the nine or leave at Leavitt & Peirce's a written order for a limited number of seats, - set the limit, say, at five. On this application he should state in order of preference the sections in which he wants his tickets. All of these applications should be sent in by, say, the end of this week. This would give the graduates time to learn of the way the seats would be sold, and send in their orders. Then on Saturday evening (our dates of course are merely suggestive), let the management of the nine draw the applications by lot and set aside for each applicant his tickets. It might or it might not be that all the tickets would be taken up in this way. At any rate it would obviate the loathsome system of standing in line before seven o'clock.

After the tickets have been assigned by lot, a time should be set during Monday morning when the owners should call for them, and all tickets not called for should be thrown into the general sale. This general sale, in order to get the business done as quickly as possible, might begin at one o'clock on Monday. We should suggest that even this general sale be not at any rate set early in the morning.

This system of written orders would, it seems, do away with all the inconveniences and injustices of the standing-in-line plan, it would give all graduates and undergraduates an even chance, and would satisfy them before attending to the general public.