MADISON University will attempt to join the New York State College League in the spring. To raise funds for the purpose, the students have resolved to give a series of concerts, the first of which was held Dec. 7, and netted $110.

BICYCLE.

F. A. ELWELL, of Portland, Me., is arranging for a cyclists’ tour through Europe next summer. The pace will be an easy one, so that ample time will be given for sight-seeing. It is expected the party will reach home about the 1st of September, and the cost of the trip will be about $400 per capita. The party will be limited to twenty-five, and Ireland, England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Belgium will be visited.

LAST spring a bicycle was run into on Broad Street, Providence, R. I., by Patrick H. Collins, an expressman, who, according to the evidence, refused to pay any regard to the warning whistles of the rider. The wheelman’s hand was broken and his machine seriously damaged. Collins was convicted in the lower court of a violation of the law requiring him to drive reasonably to the right of the travelled centre of the highway, and took an appeal. A short time ago the Court of Appeals sustained the lower court, deciding that a bicycle is a vehicle, and entitled to all the protection afforded other vehicles.

JOHN S. PRINCE is to manage the bicycle department of the new Coliseum in Omaha, a building 300 by 170 feet, with a bicycle track 20 feet wide and 10 laps to the mile. The building will seat 10,000 people. A six-day race is being arranged. Inside of the cycle track is a horse track 17 feet wide.

CHICAGO will have a six-day bicycle race next, and it will possibly take place in the Exposition building.

INTEREST in wheeling matters has been on the increase in Cincinnati, and there is every prospect that the State meet will be held there in 1889.

THE Harvard-Technology road race was held Saturday, December 8, over a nine-mile course through the Newtons. The race was close and exciting, and resulted in a victory for Harvard. The start and finish were on Watertown street, Newton. Technology entered eight men and Harvard six, but only the first five men from each club were counted. The men finished in the following order:

1. Greenleaf, Harvard, 10 points.
2. Norton, Tech., 9 “
3. Williston, Tech., 8 “
4. Brown, Harvard, 7 “
5. Barron, Harvard, 6 “
6. Rogers, Harvard, 5 “
7. Webster, Tech., 4 “
8. Holmes, Harvard, 3 “
9. Warner, Tech., 2 “
10. Hutchins, Tech., 1 “

Total—Harvard, 31 points; Technology, 24 points. Officers of the race—Referee, R. H. Davis, of Harvard; judges, H. M. Waite and F. C. Jarecki, both of Technology.