A prize racket will be offered by this column, the winner of which will be entitled to the Lawn Tennis Championship of the University for 1879-80. Time, place, and conditions of match will be found in next Crimson.

WE are glad to see that several of our Athletes have not been idle during the summer; T. H. Simmons, '80, and E. J. Wendell, '82, having won several well-contested races. F. M. Ware, '79, has given up the cinder-path and taken to the turf. We wish him all success.

THE following are considered the best of the twenty-eight English amateurs who have offered to compete in this country. Ball, quarter-mile runner; George, one-mile and four-mile champion; Massey, of the London Athletic Club; Venn, the seven-mile walker; Allan, the short-distance runner; Warburton, a runner; Shaw, the hundred-yards runner; Strachan, of the London Athletic Club, the high-jumper and hurdle-jumper, and Squires, the winner of the thirty-miles walking, and sixty-miles "go-as-you-please" contests.

AUGUST 20th, at the Capitoline Grounds, Brooklyn, in the games of the Putnam Athletic Club, the well-known amateur sprinter, W. C. Wilmer, broke his leg at the finish of the one-hundred-yards race. The ground beyond the end of the sprinting course is a steep embankment, and Wilmer could not stop himself in time to avoid injury. This accident is much to be regretted, as Wilmer will of course be kept off the cinder-path for the rest of the season, and will not be able to compete against the English amateur sprinters who will soon visit us.

WE have received from William Watson, Ph.D., a prospectus of his establishment for giving advanced instruction in engineering and the graphic arts. The system of instruction is the European, which has already begun to attract some attention in this country: but we have never seen it set forth and illustrated with such precision as is done by Dr. Watson in the explanation of his "Studio and Atelier." This school gives such instruction as has been furnished in the past only by the best technical schools of Europe, and uses "many graphical and abridged methods not yet embodied in text-books, but contained in manuscripts and lithographs." The European system instructs by familiar lectures, fully illustrated with practical examples; and the collections of drawings and models in Dr. Watson's possession enable him to give this instruction as it is given in France, Germany, and Austria. For further information in regard to this establishment, we refer our readers to the advertisement on page 7.