The annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race takes place on Saturday, March 24. The betting is two to one in favor of Cambridge. Both crews are heavier than the average Harvard and Yale crews of the last few years.

At the indoor games of Company A, Twenty-third Regiment, in New York, on April 7th, there will be a tug-of-war confined to college teams. Yale, Princeton and Columbia have already entered.

Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, London, will sell to-day a transcript of Burn's poems, in his own handwriting, on eighty folio pages. This manuscript varies in many instances from the printed edition and other known transcripts.

The themes in English B from E to M will be returned to-day in Sever 1; from A to D and N to S in Sever 11. The rest of the themes will not be returned until the following week. The announcement made in the calendar last week was erroneous.

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has presented to the Medical Library, Boylston place, his very valuable and extensive collection of medical books. The library already is so filled with books that, in order to accommodate this donation, which will cover eighty lineal feet of shelf room, the librarian found it necessary to have built several additional shelves.