A man has walked 10 miles in 1 hr. 17 m. 40 3-4 sec.; a man has run the same distance in 57 m. 26 sec.; a horse has trotted 10 miles in 28 m. 3 1-2 sec,; and a man has ridden a bicycle 10 miles in 29 m. 22 sec.

James Bryce, Esq., M. P., lectured last evening before a large audience in Sanders Theatre, on the Election methods in Great Britain. Reports of both yesterday's and tonight's lecture will appear in tomorrow's HERALD-CRIMSON.

The date for the annual convention of the intercollegiate press association, which is this year to be held in Cambridge, will soon be determined on and will be duly announced in these columns.

A handicap race was recently decided near London, in which the handicap was by weight instead of the usual style. The weights ranged from thirty pounds downwards, and no stipulation was made as to the manner in which they should be carried, but the majority of the competitors carried them knapsack tashion across their backs. The new style was voted a success.

It is a singular fact that the important subject of hygiene has never, until now, been included in the curriculum of the Harvard Medical School, which may rightfully lay claim to being considered the first institution of the kind in the country. The omission is the more remarkable in view of the fact that in some of the Western States, where medical practitioners are obliged to secure a license from the State before practising in it, proficiency in hygiene is prescribed as one of the requisites for admission to practice; so that a graduate of the Harvard Medical School hitherto might justly be exclude from the profession in any of these States. This recognition of the importance of a proper training in sanitary science comes none too soon, and the Harvard Medical School is fortunate in securing so practical and accomplished a lecturer on the subject as Dr. Samuel H. Durgin, chairman of the city Board of Health. [Ex.