BENEFACTIONS
Ex-Gov. Colby has made a conditional pledge of $10,000 to the trustees of the Maine Agricultural College.
Gen. E. W. Leavenworth, of Syracuse, N.Y., has recently given $10,000 to Hamilton College to found a scholarship.
Of the £265,000 endowment secured last year for the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Joseph A. Wharton gave £100,000.
Newton Case, of Hartford, Conn., has offered to give $100,000 for the library of Hartford Theo. Sem., provided an equal amount is raised.
By the sale of the Williston Mills at Easthampton, Williston Seminary comes into possession of $200,000 and Amherst College of $100,000.
Over $100,000 has been raised for land and a new dormitory at Williams College. The fund for the Garfield Professorship amounts to $42,000.
The late Joseph E. Sheffield gives $100,000 to the Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn. His gifts to Yale College will probably aggregate from half a million to a million and a half.
University College, Liverpool, England, is to receive £105,000 from different individuals. Lord Derby, the Rathborne family, Mrs. Grant and the trustees of the late R. L. Jones have subscribed £10,000 each of the amount.
“The colored people are too poor to endow their schools. Their very existence is endangered so long as they are made to depend upon the yearly gifts of the churches. To endow is to carry a magnificent beginning to completion.”–Rev. T. J. Morgan, D.D.