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...large audience of over two thousand people assembled in the vicinity of the Union boathouse last Saturday afternoon to witness the regatta given under the auspices of the Union boat Club. The event was, of course, of especial interest to Harvard men in view of the approaching Columbia and Yale races, and, as a consequence, they gathered in large numbers about the boat-house and at the Beacon-street wall. Among the spectators were a goodly number of ladies, many of whom displayed the familiar crimson parasols and who joined heartily in the cheers for the college crews. The general...
...thousand persons have thus far left Egypt on account of the riots...
During the fifteen years in which classes have been conducted by professors of Edinburg University under the auspices of the Edinburg Association for the University Education of Women, nearly four thousand women have availed themselves of them. In the past ten years about fifty women have obtained the ordinary university certificates for women, and twelve have obtained honors certificates...
...meeting of Israelite citizens in Baltimore Sunday afternoon three thousand dollars were subscribed to aid the refugees from Russia who are expected to arrive shortly...
There were seven thousand spectators at the Yale-Princeton game in New York on Decoration Day. The N. Y. Herald in commenting on the game, says: "The contest as a whole was but little in advance of the amateur playing of twenty years ago, and in striking contrast to the splendid exhibition on the same field the day before...