The next meeting of the National Teachers’ Association will be held in Atlanta, Ga., July 19th. This opportunity for interchange of views between Northern and Southern teachers ought to result in great good. Northern teachers need not fear to visit Atlanta at that season of the year, as its altitude, about eleven hundred feet above the sea, gives it a mild and healthful climate. Our teachers often spend their summer there.
BENEFACTIONS.
Cyrus McCormick, of Chicago, has added $75,000 to his former gifts to the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of that place.
Robert L. Stewart has enlarged his gift to the San Francisco Presbyterian Theological Seminary from $20,000 to $50,000.
Mr. Moses Hopkins, brother of the late Mark Hopkins, has just given to a California academy an endowment of $50,000, the largest sum yet bestowed in this way by any one person in that State.
Harvard College has received a gift of $115,000 for the erection of a physical laboratory, provided a fund of $75,000 be raised to defray the running expenses. As in the case of the Law School, the name of the benefactor is not to be made public.
Mr. Thomas A. Scott has endowed the chair of Mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania, now occupied by Prof. Kendall, with $50,000. He has also given $50,000 to Jefferson College, $30,000 to the Orthopedic Hospital, and $20,000 to the children’s department of the Episcopal Hospital.
The list of Mr. Geo. I. Seney’s gifts in the past two years, including his latest donations to Southern Methodist institutions, is as follows: Wesleyan University, $260,000; Long Island Historical Society, $62,000; Brooklyn Industrial Home, $20,000; for Hospital, $270,000; Church at Bernardsville, $15,000; Emory College, Oxford, Ga., $50,000; Wesleyan Female College, Macon, Ga., $50,000; total, $727,000.