After the Christmas recess individual instruction will be given to each member of the section in English 5.

The latest improvement in bicycle manufacture is the kerosencycle. It is like the tricycle, but the propelling power is obtained by an engine located under the seat, in which a pressure is generated by the aid of kerosene oil and compressed air.

The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament. Special subject ; Early Hebrew History and the Assyrian Monuments, Professor Lyon, Upper Divinity Hall, 12 M.

Prof. Sylvester, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, was formally elected Savilian Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, England, on Wednesday last. It has been understood for some time that he would accept.

Of the recent performance of the "Elektra" of Sophocles at Girton College, England, the London Truth says : "The play was acted with great success before an audience consisting almost entirely of ladies ; a few privileged classical tutors and the fathers of the performers being the only members of the sterner sex admitted. The principal feature of the performance was the acting of Miss G. E. Case, as Elektra."

The Harvard Faculty Committee is beginning to see the folly of its raid against playing with professionals. After having given athletics a good set-back by driving off James Robinson, they deprived the nine of a trainer. Yet they have a professional gymnast in charge of the gymnasium, a professional instructor in sparring and fencing, and allow the nine to play under professional rules, with a professional ball and under professional umpires. [N. Y. Clipper.

In his speech before the Yale alumni in New York, Saturday, Pres. Porter assured his hearers that, in respect of the college's healthfulness, about which some alarm had been created recently, there was no occasion for apprehension. Not a single case of malaria had occurred on the college premises. Every one of the serious cases of illness could be traced to personal imprudence and exposure. As for New Haven itself, there was far less of malarial fever than there was ten years ago. Athletics was another important subject of which he desired to speak. Athletics were a blessing to the college, drawing away energies which might otherwise be wasted in idleness or vice, but whether intercollegiate contests were desirable was a question of opinion. If abandoned, Yale could doubtless get along without them. No proposition to abandon them, however, would be entertained on the ground that there was any extraordinary brutality on the part of students. The undergraduates were as magnanimous as any similar body in any other college.