BENEFACTIONS.
—Hon. H. B. Curtis has given Kenyon College $15,000.
—Judge Hoadley has purchased for the Cincinnati Art Museum, treasures worth $30,000.
—Mr. Ahok, a Chinese gentleman, has given $10,000 toward the new College at Foochow, China.
—The endowment of Washington and Lee University, mostly from Northern men, has reached $431,500.
—A gift of $10,000 has recently been made to the Boston University, to be devoted to the scholarship fund of that institution.
—One donor has given $100,000, and another $250,000, towards the erection of the new law school building and the physical laboratory of Harvard College.
—Rev. Dr. Alva Woods of Providence, R.I., gives the Vermont Academy at Saxton’s River another $1,000 to be used in supporting embryo ministers.
—The venerable John Baldwin, founder of Baldwin University, Berea, O., has given $3,000 to establish a school at Bangalore, India, in the Rev. William Taylor’s work.
—Mrs. Noah Woods of Bangor bequeathed $5,000 to Bowdoin College for a scholarship, to be called the Blake scholarship, in memory of her son, who was a graduate of that institution.
—Talladega College, Talladega, Ala., is erecting Stone Hall by the gift of Mrs. Stone—the fourth College building. Endowments now are the great necessity. $25,000 will provide for a Professorship, and there are four such needing endowments; one of these a Theological Professorship.