BENEFACTIONS.
The will of Mr. Peter Ballentine contains a bequest of $5,000 to Rutgers College.
Alida V. R. Constable bequeathed $4,000 to Union Theological Seminary, New York.
Miss Mary Blake, of Kingston, N.H., has made a bequest of $10,000 to Tufts College.
Mr. A. E. Kent, of San Francisco, a member of the class of ’53, has given $60,000 to Yale College.
Mr. Henry Winkley has added $10,000 to his previous gifts to Andover Theological Seminary, making $60,000 in all.
Hon. Frederick Billings, of Woodstock, Vt., has given $75,000 to Vermont University for a library building.
The late S. L. Crocker, of Taunton, Mass., bequeathed $5,000 to Brown University to endow a scholarship to be called “Caroline Crocker.”
By the will of the late Henry Seybert, the University of Pennsylvania is to receive $120,000 for the endowment of a chair of mental and moral philosophy and the endowment of a ward in the wing for chronic diseases.
The Committee on Education and Labor made a unanimous report last winter to Congress that the people of the Southern States are absolutely unable to provide the means necessary for sustaining sufficient public schools without assistance. The A. M. A. has long recognized this fact. Endowments for its schools and others similar to them, whose object is to raise up Christian teachers, would assure assistance of the most helpful and enduring character.