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H. A. A. EXPLAINS METHOD USED IN DISTRIBUTING SEATS FOR YALE GAME

Distribution Made Entirely by Lot in Each Group--Want to Place Undergraduates Above Graduates

g. Members of the Class of '79, who contributed to the fund for building the Stadium.

2. Group 1. Tickets for personal use; applications for one seat only.

a. College undergraduates.

b. College graduates and University officers.

c. School students. (Students in the graduate or professional schools.)

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d. School graduates. (Graduates of graduate or professional schools.)

3. Group 2. Applications for two seats, one to be used personally by the applicant.

a. Seniors and Juniors, or College undergraduates who have attended College not less than two academic years.

b. College graduates and University officers.

c. Freshmen and Sophomores, or men who have attended College less than two academic years.

d. School students.

e. School graduates.

A glance at the problem in 1910 and today is sufficient to see that before another Yale game at the Stadium, a new committee will have to adopt different rulings than those handed down by the 1910 committee. In the first place, every Harvard man cannot now be assured of "seats for himself and at least one companion if desired." Also, the Harvard football management no longer reserves for its disposal a "reasonable number of seats at the game to be distributed in the interests of the sport". In fact, it became necessary this year to cut nearly all of the Sophomore and Freshman applications to one seat and this one seat was on top of the Stadium. It was with a great deal of regret that this was done because, contrary to the opinion of the committee, the Athletic Association feels that no graduate should have preference over an undergraduate. Even when it became evident that these two undergraduate classes had to be cut, the Athletic Association still had hopes that the Yale Athletic Association would return some of the tickets which had been sent to them, and the 247 which were returned were applied to Sophomore and Freshman applications. The H. A. A. will recommend to the new committee that the allotment be changed so that in Group 2, Section "c" shall change place with Section "b".

The complaints, unfortunately, do not stop with the men who were cut to one seat. Most of the fault found, however, by those who receive two seats, is due to the fact that very few of them receive seats on the side of the playing field between the goal lines. Below is a brief outline of the scheme of distribution in accordance with the recommendations of the 1910 committee.

The number of seats available for Harvard men were 29,087, while the applications numbered close to 35,000.

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