Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hundred and fifty-seven men succeeded yesterday in getting one ticket apiece for the Yale game...
Yesterday's sale of the 220 tickets overlooked in the confusion of the first sale proved in a considerable measure a vindication of the manager of the eleven. The fact that every man in line yesterday got a ticket shows that the number of men who secured tickets by the first sale has been grossly underestimated. The method which the management adopted in disposing of the tickets at this first sale certainly did keep the tickets to college men. Speculators could not compete with them, and in fact secured practically no tickets at the Cambridge sale. Their united denunciation...
DEAR SIRS: - At 5.30 this morning a member of Harvard University went to buy some tickets for the Yale-Harvard game. He wanted a ticket for himself and two for two Harvard graduates. After standing in line three hours he was informed that all the tickets were sold. Let us look at this. There were 2100 tickets sold; about 70 men only bought tickets, which makes an average of 30 tickets apiece. As a matter of fact 68 tickets were actually sold to one man. But no man was allowed to buy more than 10 tickets, according to official announcements...
...method followed in disposing of the 2100 ticket placed on sale yesterday morning, the criticism of it has been anything but temperate. The plan of issuing extra orders to those who offered adequate reason was not an entire success perhaps, but it worked much better than anyone would admit yesterday. It prevented the speculators from securing any considerable number of seats and distributed the tickets among the students as effectually as any other method which has been tried. Orders for extra tickets were given only after an assurance that they represented several undergraduates or graduates and would not speculate with...
...these tickets should be disposed of has been a puzzling question. It has been decided, however, to place them on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's at two o'clock this afternoon on the following conditions: Any member of the University who will at that time sign in a blue book a statement that he has not yet secured a ticket for the game, will be allowed to purchase one of these tickets. No one will be allowed to buy more than one ticket on any condition...