CORPORATION TO THE RESCUE.

A perplexing situation has at last been solved by the action of the Corporation yesterday, giving the Athletic Association permission to erect wooden stands at the open end of the Stadium as well as around the track. This will make available some eight or nine thousand more seats and make it possible for graduates to see the game who are not season ticket holders. As yet there has been no sale to graduates, and the sales to undergraduates were closed before the demand had been satisfied.

The facts of the complication are these: to accommodate the 6100 odd holders of season tickets and the 2200 holders of H. A. A. tickets, it was necessary to hold out fifteen sections of the Stadium, and so reserved seat tickets could only be issued for the remaining twenty-two sections. Of this number, thirteen sections, or something over 7500 seats, were placed at the disposal of the Dartmouth Association to be sold to Dartmouth men at Hanover. This left only nine sections to be sold to Harvard men, both graduates and undergraduates, with the result that the supply was exhausted before the graduates were given a chance to apply at a public sale.

The difficulty seems to have been the result of two distinct causes. In the first place, more season tickets were sold this year than ever before and in fact more than could be properly provided for at the big games. The entire Harvard side must be reserved for these ticket-holders. The other cause was the sending to Dartmouth of so many tickets when no previous provision had been made whereby graduates could see the game. The Corporation has consented to go back on its original decision with regard to wooden stands in the Stadium but only because there seemed to be no other way out of the difficulty.