Amherst beat the Holyoke nine 25 to 2. This result it is said was mainly sesured by the coaching of the professional, Manning,

G. M. Hendee, beat A. H. Robinson in a ten mile bicycle race on Saturday. The track was rough so that the time was very slow-39 m., 12s.

The Cambridge University Press (England) have nearly ready for publication the first volume of Professor Jebbs long-expected edition of Sophocles being the OEdipus Tyrannus.

J. G. Hitchcock, one of the "fast men" of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club of Boston, is at his home in Omaha, Neb. He will probably enter Harvard College in the spring and train for the races of '84.

The lacrosse championship is at present held by the Calumet Club of Chicago, but as the Union Club, of Boston, has beaten New York twice during the season it is not improbable that the Calumet Club will be invited to meet the Unions next year.

The interest in bicycling at Harvard College is increasing, and by next year the college will have a large representation of riders. Claflin, Deam, Norton, Thompson and Hitchcock are all well known racing men, and they will be hard to beat. The new track will have raised corners, and will be ready early in the spring. It is considered by the prominent racing men around Boston to be the fastest track in this county. [Ex.