BENEFACTIONS.
—Hamilton College receives $5,000 from Lemuel Brooks, of Churchville, N. Y.
—Henry Villiard has given to the Oregon State University $70,000 to relieve its indebtedness.
—D. O. Mills has given to the University of California $75,000 to endow a chair of intellectual and moral philosophy.
—William H. Vanderbilt proposes to add to his previous gifts one-half or two-thirds enough to erect and equip suitable buildings for the Nashville Female College.
—Mr. George B. Babcock, of Plainfield, N. J., has recently given $30,000 to Alfred University, and still later $10,000 to Wilson College at Wilson, Wisconsin.
—The will of the widow of the late ex-President Millard Fillmore leaves public bequests to the amount of $50,000, among which is one of $20,000 to the University of Rochester.
—Matthew Vassar, following in the good work of his uncle, bequeathed to the college which bears the family name the handsome sum of $130,000; to the Vassar Brothers Home for Aged Men, $15,000; and to the Vassar Brothers Hospital, $85,000. These contributions are to be largely increased by some residuary legacies.
—The following table shows the increase of endowments of the New England colleges during the past year: Harvard, $500,000; Yale, $250,000; Amherst, $75,000; Tufts, $120,000; Smith, $43,000; Dartmouth, $110,000; University of Vermont, $50,000; Wesleyan, $100,000; Colby, $30,000; total, $1,278,000.
—Talladega College, Talladega, Ala., is erecting Stone Hall, by the gift of Mrs. Stone—the fourth College building. Endowments now are the great necessity. $25,000 will provide for a Professorship, and there are four such needing endowment, one of these a Theological Professorship.