ALLOTMENT OF FOOTBALL SEATS.

The assignment of seats for the important football games has been the subject of investigation for a committee of the Boston Harvard Club, which has recently published its report. No glaring faults have been found in the present system, but a number of suggestions are made as to details, some of which appear to be of doubtful value.

For instance, the proposal is made that the seats should be unevenly divided, the visiting college receiving only enough goods seats to provide for persons actually registered. Such action would encourage the tendency which already exists in some degree for men to apply through friends at the more favored institution, and so would in part at least defeat its own ends. The abolition of the H. A. A. ticket preference, which is recommended, would detract so materially from the value of these tickets that their sale would undoubtedly be much reduced, and their usefulness would be decreased in like ration. A suggestion that Sophomores and Freshmen be limited to one seat each in the cheering section, or that their applications for two seats should come after those of the graduates, is not calculated to find favor in the college. The undergraduates are here only for a limited time and then are scattered so widely that only a few are afterward in a position to attend games in this part of the country. While they are in College they should have first consideration in the allotment of football seats. Moreover it is not the graduates as a whole who would benefit by such a move, but only a certain part of them resident near Cambridge.

On the other hand the abolition of borrowed applications would be a timely measure. Such applications now seldom secure tickets for the Yale game, and for the other games they are not needed. The special list is a useful institution, but it seems that 3592 is and excessive number of seats to be distributed by privileged persons, considering that this number represents nearly one-fifth of the total number of seats assigned on Harvard applications last fall.