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...members of the clubs were taken to drive about the city, and at 5 p. m. Monday were given a reception at the home of Mr. William Gordon, '86 S. In the evening a concert was given in the Opera House before an audience numbering more than a thousand. On Tuesday morning the clubs left for Charleston in their special car, arriving at noon. They were met by a number of gentlemen and were immediately taken on a steam launch up the river to Magnolia Gardens, and afterwards to their hotel. A concert was given in the evening...
...Yale museum has received a valuable addition in the shape of a collection of over ten thousand specimens of shells presented by Mrs. Eldridge, of Yarmouthport, Mass...
During the past winter the CRIMSON went to the expense and trouble of getting up a petition to the Corporation asking for electric lights in the library. Over a thousand names of students and instructors were sent in as in favor of the petition. The petition was given to the Corporation with the result that the treasurer was directed to investigate thoroughly the advisability of putting in the lights with especial consideration of the expense...
...best amateur teams of England, Scotland and Ireland. The '84 team played seventeen games in all, winning nine, losing four and drawing four, and barring a crushing defeat at the hands of the celebrated Marylebone Club, generally known as the "M. C. C.," which numbers amongst its three thousand and more members, (almost every amateur cricketer of note in England), the record of the team was very creditable. The most notable victory of the Philadelphians was that over the Gentlemen of Gloucestershire whom they defeated by seven wickets. The county was represented by its best amateurs including...
...Over two thousand dollars has been raised for the support of the Brown University nine...