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To the Editors of the Crimson:
I 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 line, in the Yale stand. I am not alone; there are a thousand other Harvard undergraduates who are in a similar position. Certainly it seems to me that with nearly ten thousand seats in the Harvard stand, there should be room for twenty-five hundred undergraduates. Who, I should like to know, has a better right to sit in the Harvard stand than the Harvard undergraduate? Is it right that he should be given a miserable seat in the Yale stand, unable to see the game, unable to cheer for his College, when thousands of outsiders who are not now and never have been directly interested in Harvard, have good seats in the Harvard stand? Is it right that a bundle of six hundred tickets should be sent in one installment to the Harvard Club of New York before the seats are opened to season ticket applications? Is it right that the Freshman football management be given three hundred and seventy-five tickets before any consideration of the applications of Juniors and Seniors who have enthusiastically followed their team for years? Whatever the management may say, it is an undeniable fact that the undergraduate has been deeply wronged. UNDERGRADUATE.
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