POUR LE SPORT

Another football season has come and again the milling crowd in the H.A.A. office reminds one of the Park Street subway at five o'clock, a mass of disgruntled humanity, annoyed and hot, but still hoping fully that the agony may not be too prolonged. The same stock argument may be advanced in defense of the Athletic Association. Why don't the students come early and avoid the rush? And the same answer is forthcoming--it is a simple case of human inertia.

What would seem to be the obvious solution of the ticket distribution problem, that of sending the applications to undergraduates through the mails, is impossible, due to the fact that the addresses of all the students cannot be obtained in time to have the blanks returned to the B. A. A. office before closing time for the first games.

The practical solution of the present difficulty lies in the use of the regular college registration envelope. Some perfectly workable system for distribution of the applications by this method could be devised. The student would receive his football blanks at the opening of college, he could then fill out the applications and mail them to the B. A. A., later going to the office, receiving his tickets and paying for them at that time. The curse of the present system is the fact that men are filling in application blanks (by far the longest proceeding), buying coupon books and paying for tickets all at once, in the same room, and over the same counter. If some of these functions could be taken care of by the registration envelope method it would do much toward ridding the B. A. A. office of the Beething crowd which at present changes the, application for a ticket from a routine occurrence to a grim and much dreaded experience.