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Next summer a team of Philadelphia Cricketers will for the second time visit England and do battle with the 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...
...spoken in his last lecture of the superstructure on which the Parthenoon stood, but which was evidently intended for a much larger building. The Parthenon as erected upon the foundation was two hundred and twenty-eight feet long and one hundred and one wide. The outer colonnade consisted of seventeen columns on the sides and eight on the ends. These columns were about five and one-half diameters, or thirty-four feet in height. Each was ornamented by twenty flutings, which were of the strict Doric style...
...Gibson (third class), of the Medical School, has successfully competed in a class of seventeen, representing various medical colleges, for the position of senior house officer of St. Luke's Hospital, New York, surgical department, and will assume his duties about March...
...Apollo Clubs of Yale gave a concert last evening in Tremont Temple under the auspices of the Star Lecture course. The Apollo Glee Club, composed of seventeen members, rendered in an acceptable manner a number of familiar college songs, and also some new ones. Mr. A. E. Jenks accompanied the club as yodler and gave two or three songs very creditably, but otherwise the work of the club was hardly above the average. The Apollo Banjo Club made a very favorable impression, playing selections noticeable for their harmonies rather than for any brilliancy of execution. The work...
...presidents and professors of seventeen colleges in the State of Ohio have organized an association to discuss questions of interest and promote a spirit of fraternity. Nine of these colleges have the word "university" attached to their title...