Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rules against speculation will be rigidly enforced. Every applicant is held responsible for the tickets allotted to him. Any man whose tickets are sold or offered for sale at a premium, either by himself or anyone else, will be black-listed and thereafter denied the privilege of obtaining tickets on application for all athletic events. Other information as to the classification of applications in the allotment may be found on the schedule folder which has been publicly distributed...
...regard to such speculation. At this season of the year it is customary for the agents of professional speculators to approach first year men and by taking advantage of their ignorance of these rules to make contracts to take their tickets at a premium...
...desire peace is to reduce the armament of Europe, to lessen the extent of preparation for war. But among their most cherished plans is that of forbidding the sale of munitions by a neutral nation to a belligerent, which would have exactly the opposite effect. It would put a premium on preparedness, for when war broke out the unprepared munitions abroad, would be in a hopeless condition against its neighbor armed to the teeth. If we want to reduce excessive armaments, and the spirit of militarism that goes with them, we must seek to curtail the advantage of preparedness...
Every applicant is held responsible for the tickets allotted to him. Any applicant whose tickets are sold or offered for sale at a premium will be blacklisted. Applications will not be accepted from men now on the blacklist...
...once a week. If they were permitted to watch the team daily, the greatest asset they would gain would be intimate knowledge of the personality of each player. The new plays evolved would be of less use to them than this intimate knowledge of each player. Thus a premium would be placed on scouting, a feature which should not be fostered...