It takes an awful lot to rile Stuart H. Bartle '50.
Until the Princeton game, Bartle had been in Cambridge for two years and had not been stirred into violent action by the machinations of the University. But when the kickoff whistle sounded in Palmer Stadium, Bartle was lying on a bed of pain in Eliot House, and his pair of Princeton tickets reposed unused on his bureau.
Bartle wants his money back, and is threatening to sue the University for $9.60, the cost of the two ducats.
He explains that he ate his Thursday evening supper in Eliot House (including a large helping of gravy) and by Friday morning was violently ill. The hapless Bartle was forced to call off his trip to Princeton, and did not fully recover until the following Monday.
To recover his money, Bartle will have to go to the Court of Small Claims, where counsel is unnecessary, and prove to the judge's satisfaction that Harvard was negligent.
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