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To the Editors of the Crimson:

I have of late been asked by several persons, some connected, some not connected with Harvard, why it is that the Harvard Athletic Association discriminates against the Faculty and officers of the University.

Being interested in the welfare and the doings of Harvard, I have endeavored to answer the question, but have not be in able to give an explanation satisfactory to myself.

According to the present arrangement the officers of instruction and administration in the allotment of tickets, came after the football squad and coaches, the H. A. A. ticket holders, the season ticket holders, all other students of the University, and take their place with the great body of graduates. I have made since some inquiries, and have heard of a number of instructors who, in the last Harvard-Yale game, have been assigned seats in the corner of the field, seats which outsiders would consider poor. This would be impossible at the athletic games of Cambridge or Oxford, England, and reflects most unfavorably upon the sportsmanlike spirit of the Harvard Athletic Association. It cannot be intentional.

These games are athletic contests on Harvard ground, and as soon as we mention the name of Harvard, we mention thereby its instructors and its officers. In the academic sphere of Harvard, the instructors and officers rank first. Their number is limited and could not under any circumstance take away many seats from any one.

Under present conditions the students of Harvard are obliged to see outsiders who have bought their tickets from speculators seated in good seats, while the officers of instruction and administrators of their Alma Mater, the men who make Harvard an institution worth going to and worthy cheering for are hidden away in remote corners. The present arrangement is not true to higher principles, is humiliating to Harvard, and at variance with collegiate sport. Unless we adhere to these principles, I admit that the athletic contests are not collegiate contests at all, but professional games carried on by a society of students for materialistic ends. I have no doubt that the great body of undergraduates and graduates, if they have at all thought of the matter, would resent the present arrangement.

I can understand the justice of giving preference to undergraduates, that is students of the College proper, but this, I submit, should be the only preference.

I suggest that officers of instruction and administration of Harvard should have the same privilege in the allotment of tickets as the members of the University; better still that a special section, selected with fairness and due regard to underlying principles, be assigned to them.  GRADUATE