Pasteboard Peace

One year after "the time of the great open season on the H.A.A.," it is good to report that the problem of equitably allotting gridiron vantage points on concrete steps is being solved with considerable efficiency and very little shooting. No longer need the upperclassmen trudge, with quiet desperation, to the same seat behind the same pillar for all six games. No more shall the guest from far distant places arrive to find no ticket, a much chagrined host, and a dreary afternoon in some saloon.

By the sale of individual contest ducats, the new system permits game-by-game seating flexibility, granting each man the chance for a better seat part of the time. Already, Class rather than House priority has proved both more fair and accommodating. And the early seat application deadlines enable the H.A.A. high command to minimize accurately the stag environs and maximize the more colorful areas of the arena. Taking conscientious account of the swollen enrollment of the University, the inevitability of some lines, and the steam age era design of the Stadium... the new plan works quite well.

Certain adjustments or additions to H.A.A. Office procedure might smooth the actual processes of ticket application and collection. A rail or employee, or both, would maintain more orderly lines, while some one outside the inviolate reaches of the counter could check application blanks and answer questions before the customer reaches his destination. Prominently displayed signs are needed to remind students which tickets are immediately available as well as to announce the application dates for later contests. Finally, the unutilized outer-office wall might be equipped with a counter, post-office style, to facilitate the filling out of applications, leaving the main counter freer for the actual transaction. True, none of these suggestions means a better seat for anyone, but life inside the H.A.A. could be still pleasanter.