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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

The matter of distribution of tickets to the Yale game has evoked no little discussion among undergraduates, particularly among Sophomores. Until this morning we have considered it in a cool, impersonal way and come to the conclusion that the H. A. A. was doing the best it could under the circumstances.

On going around to get our tickets, however, we found but one apiece awaiting us, as we had been led to expect. But to find that out of six classmates met at the Union, five were to sit in glory on the East Tower, or some such place on the roof, and that the sixth had a ticket admitting to an end view from Section 46, top row, was indeed insult added to injury.

Now we claim little knowledge of the system for distributing tickets to the big games, but considering the matter from a common-sense point of view, it would seem that the unquestioned precedence of the Harvard graduate in this regard over the two lower undergraduate classes is unjustified.

The Sophomore class is, as a rule, well represented on the first University squad and has many enthusiastic rooters who want to see their classmates win. These second year men are justly proud of their class as a class and of their friends as players. Why should they be thrust aside with one ticket, and a poor one at that, simply because the outside demand has become greater? This increasing demand for tickets, presumably from graduates, is doubtless a result of the growing importance of the H-Y game as a social function. Should the satisfying of this social craving be allowed to interfere with the satisfying of the demand of the student body, which with its friends, derives greater enjoyment, and of which the appreciation and enthusiasm is of higher degree than that of any other group?

Moreover, the graduates have had a chance to which their classmates play; they have had their teams, this is ours. Granting that a student can show his loyalty as well with one ticket as with two, he might at least be allowed something better than the dregs of the bowl or the skyline of the wooden stands.

In view of the foregoing, is it not reasonable that a Sophomore should expect consideration immediately after the Juniors and Seniors, with the exception, of course, of the University squad and coaching staff?

To follow the present system of distribution to its logical conclusion, it may yet be that future undergraduates will be denied altogether the privilege of witnessing the Harvard-Yale classic.  RICHARD JENNEY 2E.S.  CLEMENT J. TRUITT '24.

November 14, 1921