Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: "Resolved, That a young man casting his first vote in 1892 has better reasons for voting the Republican than the Democratic ticket...
...Moore was confronted by the fact that numerous small boys and other residents of Cambridge had occupied by Sunday evening, about fifty places in the ticket line. Of the mismanagement which permitted this I have nothing to say. They were there, and they were either selling out to the highest bidder, or were bargaining to hold the places until morning...
...issued, students could do one of two things. They could hire the occupants of the place to keep it all night at $5 and upward; or they could pay $2.50 and upwards for the place, and stay there all night themselves. They were on the same terms with any ticket speculator who cared to do the same...
...result was that the $5 which paid for a place was distributed among from three to seven men, and the premium reduced to 20 cents on each of twenty-five tickets, instead of 50 cents on each of ten. If the students held the place all night the men in a group could relieve each other. The college men were given a distinct advantage over the ticket speculators who could only get ten tickets...
There was a line of about 250 by two o'clock yesterday afternoon when the seats for the middle sections which had been overlooked were put on sale. Only one ticket was allowed to each man, and under this arrangement the tickets just went around for those in the line...