BENEFACTIONS.
John Francis Clapp of the firm of Simpson, Clapp & Co., of New York, remembered his native town, Belchertown, Mass., in his will by the gift of $40,000 for a public library and a building for the same.
Mr. George I. Seney has presented $25,000 to the Wesleyan Female College, to finish the college buildings.
Mrs. Shaw, of Boston, the daughter of the late Professor Agassiz, supports 33 kindergartens in that city and vicinity, at an expense of $25,000 per annum.
President Peter McVicar has lately received a gift of $10,000 for Washburn College from a friend in Massachusetts.
Not only has Rev. H. O. Ladd’s University of New Mexico at Santa Fe received $5,000 from the estate of the late Deacon J. C. Whitin, but other gifts are promised for the building now going up.
Bowdoin College has received $1,000 from Dr. Goodwin to found a commencement prize, $4,000 from the estate of Mrs. Noah Woods, of Bangor, to establish the Blake Scholarship, $1,000 from John C. Dodge, of Cambridge, for library purposes. $3,500 was pledged towards a new gymnasium and $1,000 for a new laboratory.
The man who gave the $20,000 named at this place in our last issue, calls it “stewardship.” The man who gave the $10,000 there indicated calls it not a donation, but an “investment.” We have some such investments to offer, with this indorsement, “He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord”—an investment of $1,000 for a scholarship, $10,000 for a library, or $25,000 for a professorship in any of our chartered institutions.