Communication.

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To the Editors of the Crimson:

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, unless given permission by the management of the Foot Ball Association. Hence all these seventy must have had permission! Now more than half of the students at Cambridge and also hundreds of graduates in and around Boston have no tickets.

On the Harvard side there is accommodations for 4500 men - 2100 were sold in Cambridge; where are the remaining 2400? Each man in the Foot Ball Association had as many as he wanted; each member of the advisory board also had tickets; likewise the Faculty and city authorities of Springfield; a certain number were sent to the Harvard Club of New York - these people in all received 2400, while the University at large received but 2100. Having stated facts, let us ask a few questions. First, why were 70 men allowed to buy 2100 tickets, or what right had the management to assign away to friends so many as they did? Second, why were only 2100 out of 4500 seats put on sale? Third, why should so many tickets have gone to the Foot Ball Association, etc.? Fourth, why should the New York supporters be any more favored than the Boston supporters?

Here in Boston and in Cambridge there are many graduates, who are deeply interested in foot ball, and who have done their best to support the team, and most of them have no tickets.

Now, as there has been gross mismanagement somewhere, we, representing many graduates, some athletic men, protest against this evil, and shabby treatment we have received today in the sale of tickets. We request a remedy, and that immediately.

SEVERAL GRADUATES.