BENEFACTIONS.
Liberty E. Holden has given $150,000 to Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. John I. Blair has given $15,000 to Iowa College for building purposes.
Atlanta University and Berea College have received $5,000 each for endowment purposes from Mr. Tuthill King, of Chicago.
The University of Pennsylvania has received $20,000 towards the endowment of a veterinary school in connection with the University.
John R. Buchtel has sold $200,000 worth of stock in the Buckeye Works to Lewis Miller and his three sons, in order to make an additional gift of $100,000 to Buchtel College.
James McLaren, a brother of Professor McLaren, of Toronto, Canada, has subscribed $50,000 to endow a chair of Systematic Theology in Knox College, Toronto.
Mrs. L. A. Messenger has given $25,000 in addition to her previous large gifts to Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio.
Williams College is to receive $50,000 from the estate of J. B. Jermain, as a memorial to his son, Barclay Jermain.
The gift of $10,000 from the late Tracy R. Edson, which his trustees are now ready to pay, to the General Theological Seminary for “The Tracy R. Edson Foundation,” makes over $160,000 received by the Seminary in the last three years. The interest of Mr. Edson’s gift is to be used in instructing students in the church service.
The number of persons over ten years of age among the colored people who could not write, in the sixteen old slave states, according to the census report of November, 1882, was upwards of three millions; the number of native-born whites who were equally illiterate was upwards of one and a half millions. We believe there is no more imperative necessity than endowments for educational institutions sustained for the purpose of ridding the country of this illiteracy.