Word: seat
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...management announces to the public that it has arranged to secure, so far as possible, the seat numbers of tickets found in the hands of speculators or offered for sale at a premium, and, in accordance with the provision printed on the ticket, will refuse to honor them on the day of the game, refunding only the face value...
...course these are exceptional cases, but it is also true that the temptation to dispose of an extra seat at a large profit is always present, and that some persons who have received tickets are proving unable to resist it. This selling of special privileges to outsiders while hundreds of graduates are trying in vain to buy tickets is reprehensible, of course, but we do not believe that it can be prevented by the measures now being used...
...applications for tickets to the Harvard-Yale football game this year exceeded all previous figures, and have kept a staff of sometimes as many as, sixty men working night and day in the Athletic Office. The approximate seating capacity of the Stadium is 35,000, and the total number of applications received was 47,183. Of these, Yale received 16,000 seats. The Harvard applications therefore, amounting to 31,183, had to be cut down to 19,000, that is, approximately only two-thirds of the Harvard applications were filled. As it is now, 12, 183 Harvard applications remain unfilled...
...order in which the applications were filled has been calculated to meet the demand in the fairest possible way. The applications filled first were those which applied for one seat, and they were filled in the following order: (1) undergraduates who are holders of H. A. A. tickets; (2), undergraduates who are not holders of H. A. A. tickets; (3) graduates of the College; (4) graduates of the professional schools, who have not graduated from the College proper. The applications for two seats were next filled in precisely the same order as the one-seat applications. All applications...
Tickets for the Harvard-Dartmouth football game will be put on sale at the Athletic Office to members of the University only between 10.30 and 1 o'clock today. The sale will be limited to two seats for each person, and the price of each ticket will be $1:50, except in the case of holders of H. A. A. tickets who have not already used them in applying for this game, in which case the purchaser will receive $1 rebate. Boxes containing ten seats at $2 a seat will be sold to parties or to individuals who bring...