BENEFACTIONS.
Mr. Deering has given $50,000 to the Northwestern University of the Methodists at Evanston, Illinois.
Mr. John C. Phillips has given $25,000 for the further endowment of Phillips Exeter Academy.
Wm. H. Vanderbilt has added $100,000 to the endowment fund of Vanderbilt University.
Lafayette College has received from Mr. T. W. McWilliams of New York a contribution of $10,000 toward the endowment of the March Chair of Philology.
Mr. J. H. Cassedy of Thiells, N.Y., has given $5,000 to Talladega College for a model school building, to bear his name.
Miss Susie Bartlett of Oshkosh, Wis. has given $500 to Beloit College for the purchase of scientific books.
By the will of Amasa Stone, Adelbert College is to receive $100,000 in addition to the half million given during his lifetime.
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N.Y. has received from Mrs. Wm. Howard Harts, as a memorial of her late husband, $60,000 to endow a professorship to bear his name.
Mrs. Dr. Griffin of Troy, N.Y., a former preceptress at Cazenovia Seminary, has given $5,000 to that institution.
Oberlin College has received $5,000 from Miss Sturges of Mansfield, Ohio, for a new building for the use of ladies’ societies, to be called Sturges Hall.
By the will of Lucy O. Bowditch, late of Boston, a bequest of $5,000 is made to the industrial school for girls, at Dorchester, to be added to the permanent fund, the income to be applied to paying the expenses of the school.
Endowments for the Christian education of the coming generations are the best bulwarks of our free institutions.