Word: visits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Notwithstanding the flattering offers of many professional base-ball teams for his services, Stagg, the great pitcher of Yale College, has finally decided to to play with the Bergen Point Athletic Club. On Saturday a delegation from Bergen Point visited the faculty in New Haven. The object of the visit, of course, was to get the consent of the faculty to Stagg's becoming a member of the Bergen Point team. This was readily gained, but Captain Dann at first was much opposed to the idea of Stagg's leaving the team. Yale's popular and plucky catcher, however...
...actual count, day after day, proves that the percentage of men, as regards the total enrollment of the college, who are present in chapel, is larger than that of the populace of our large cities. Still, were Dr. Brooks so widely known throughout our country and abroad, to visit us from a far distant city, the chapel would be crowded each morning. Does it not look like "A prophet, etc,' again? What is the cause of this small attendance? Cannot each man, that now makes a practice of disregarding the college bell at eight-forty, make it a point...
...have met with in inducing the Cantabs to cross the Atlantic. Mr. E. D. Brandegee and Mr. Arthur B. Fainzel, although they have not yet been able to absolutely settle the matter, have carried the negotiations so far that practically everything is arranged, and, unless something unforeseen happens, the visit will take place. - Boston Herald...
President Eliot was last reported in Tunis. He will visit Malta, Sicily and Southern Italy...
...Garrett, '69, president of the B. amp; O. R. R., and his family were the guests of Dr. McCosh recently. It was Mrs. Garrett's first visit to Princeton, and she expressed herself delighted with the college. Mr. Garrett, as a true son, remembered his Alma Mater by a gift of $8000 to the Art School now building. He also consented to read a paper on the relations of the B. amp; O. R. R. and its employees at one of Dr. McCosh's celebrated library meetings...