In the first place, applicants for one seat are always put in the middle of the field. These applications have preference over all others and form the cheering section. In the Yale game they numbered 1500, and as there are 611 seats to a section in the stone part of the Stadium, this meant that all of Sections 32 and 33 and several rows in the colonnade were allotted entirely to one-seat men.

The first football squad and coaches are allowed ten seats each; the second squad and coaches are allowed four seats each. These applications required 1220 seats, and they were placed in the stone part of Sections 30 and 31. Graduate Harvard football men are allowed four seats each, and these applications together with the applications of the Class of '79, ex-graduate treasurers, overseers, and members of the Athletic Committee, numbered 1325 seats. These were assigned to Sections 24 and 35, and in addition, 31 were placed in the wooden seats on the track of Section 30.

The Varsity Club men were assigned the track seats of Sections 30, 31, 34, and 35.

Nine hundred and seventy-three Juniors and Seniors applied for two seats each, and these men were assigned all of Section 29, including the first row in the colonnade, all of Section 36, and a part of Section 27.

After these applications had been filled, there were left between the goal lines in the stone part of the Stadium, Section 28, and 381 seats in Section 37. The graduate group had between the goal lines in the stone part of the Stadium less than six hundred seats, and the number of seats applied for in this group was 17,120. These men were allotted the balance of Section 37, all of Sections 18 to 28 inclusive, the last rows and the colonnade of Sections 29, 30, 31, 34, 35, and 36, the colonnade of Sections 32 and 33, and all of Sections 38 to 42 inclusive.

The number of Freshmen and Sophomores who applied for two seats was 1069, only 69 of which were allotted two seats. These men and the 1,000 who received one seat, were assigned to the top rows of Sections 44, and 45, and to seats on top of the Stadium.

The members of the graduate schools, all of whom were cut to one seat, numbered 1691, and these men were given the front seats of Section 54, 760 seats, and 760 standing spaces on top of the Stadium, and 12 portal seats on the Yale side.

The remaining 2465 seats were assigned to the graduates of the professional schools, who likewise were cut to one seat. These men occupied the balance of Sections 42, 43, and 44.

Few people realize that the Stadium proper on the Harvard side, holds less than 5500 people, so that even if there were no preferences at all, where graduate and undergraduate applications total well over 35,000, the chance for a graduate to get in these seats would be only about one to seven. As it is, with the preferences recognized as just by the graduate and undergraduate committee who drew up the rules eleven years ago, a graduate has not more than one chance in thirty of getting any of these seats. The total number of seats distributed on preferences seems large, but almost any graduate will admit that in each individual case these preferences are just and should be granted.

The above statement of allotments as to groups is not absolutely accurate, since the time allowed for filling applications is so short that the allotment to the various groups must proceed simultaneously, and the various blocks of tickets are laid aside for the different groups according to the total number of tickets applied for in each group. There are individual instances where, in order to use up seats that are left after the allotment to one group has been made, some men in lower groups may get in a few cases better seats than men in the higher groups; but this situation is unavoidable in the rush of a distribution on which nearly twenty-five clerks work for several days from nine in the morning to eleven at night.

The distribution is entirely by lot in each group. In fact, the clerks who are doing the work never pay any attention --for that matter do not know the names of one in a thousand of the applicants. They proceed merely on the general scheme without regard to the personality of any applicant.

As above expressed, a new committee will shortly be appointed and the makeup of this committee will be composed of graduates and undergraduates. The Harvard Athletic Association will give its ideas to the committee and it hopes that before another Yale game many of this year's problems will be history