Word: seating
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...Every seat for the Harvard Glee Club Concert in Washington has been sold...
They are all rowing without bending the arms and on a fixed seat. In consequence the rowing is so little developed that nothing can be said of the merits or faults of the oarsmen. Newell and Shaw are singularly strong men and have both done very well at foot ball, but labor under the disadvantages of being totally inexperienced, and being rather short and chunky for a 'varsity crew. Powers, Watriss, Jones and Rantoul were substitutes on the crew last year and are well known as fairly good men. Vail, Cummings and Earl rowed in the freshman boat last year...
...that defeat, took place. At quarter before 8 o'clock the great dining room of the RevereHouse, decorated with Harvard banners, was filled with three hundred men waiting for the team to come in. The band played Fair Harvard as Neal Rantoul '92 escorted Captain Cumnock to his seat of honor on the right of the president of the dinner, Moses Williams, Jr., '91. The team followed and took seats at the head of the table to the right and to the left...
Finally, there ought to have been some system of reserving at least part of the seats so that most of the women should not be obliged to stand, or sit on the ground A number of small sections, like those of the Jarvis field seats, would have secured to those who bought reserved seat tickets some probability of a place to sit down, and purchasers would gladly have paid extra for such tickets...
...average price of the boxes for the Yale-Princeton game on Thanks-giving day was about $30 or an average of about $3 a seat. The total receipts from the sale amounted...