BENEFACTIONS.
The late Hannah G. Russell, of Boston, willed $2,000 to the Boston University, to be used in clothing poor students of theology.
Mrs. Sarah B. Jacobs, of Boston, has given $5,000 to the University of Vermont, for the endowment of five scholarships.
Columbia College gets $500,000 from the estate of Stephen Whitney Phenix, making its aggregate endowment $5,300,000.
Roanoke College, Va., is to receive $1,000 from the estate of Rev. Andrew Bigelow, D.D., of Southboro, Mass.
The University of Vermont is to receive the valuable library of the late Hon. George P. Marsh, of Italy, a gift purchased by the Hon. Frederick Billings, of Woodstock, an alumnus of the University.
The late Edward Clark, of Cooperstown, N.Y., left $50,000 to Williams College, his alma mater.
Howard University has received $5,000 from the estate of the late F. P. Schoals, Esq., of New York.
Mr. Thomas Beaver, of Danville, Pa., has given $30,000 to the endowment fund of Dickinson College, as a memorial of his father.
The Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., will receive $125,000 from the estate of the late Mrs. Sarah E. Atkinson, of Memphis, Tenn., of which it is the residuary legatee.
McGill University is to receive $40,000 from the estate of Miss Barbara Scott.
Mrs. William E. Dodge has given $2,000 to found scholarships for the daughters of clergymen in the Mills Seminary of California.
The emancipation proclamation was issued January, 1863—twenty years ago. Since then 800,000 colored children have been enrolled during a single year in the schools of the South. The demand for a higher education for some of these, in order that they may be competent teachers and leaders in society, is not only urgent but imperative. The institutions founded by the A. M. A. to promote Higher Education, however, are almost entirely without endowment.