—Beloit College, Wis., has received $10,000 from Mrs. J. S. Herrick, to be applied for a new observatory.
—The bequest of Col. Wm. E. Putnam to Marietta College, Ohio, will probably amount to $35,000.
—Mr. Reuben J. Flick, a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Wilkesbarre, has recently given $20,000 to Lincoln University.
—Mr. Geo. I. Seney has recently added $100,000 to his gift to Wesleyan University, the interest of which is to be given in prizes to students.
—Mr. A. L. Williston and wife have given $10,000 for a new observatory at Mt. Holyoke Seminary, in memory of their deceased son.
—The late Ebenezer Alden, M.D., of Randolph, left a legacy of $5,000 to Phillips Academy, Andover, for helping students, or paying for instruction, at the discretion of the tutors.
—A friend of Yale Divinity School has given $10,500 for a new library building, which is now being erected between Marquand Chapel and West Divinity Hall.
—Mr. Leander McCormick, of Chicago, has donated his splendid telescope, costing $50,000, to the University of Virginia, and offers to build the observatory to receive it.
—Mr. Wm. H. Vanderbilt, of New York, has given $25,000 to the University of Virginia, and Mr. Lewis Brooks, of Rochester, N.Y., has given a splendid museum, costing about $60,000, to the same institution.
—Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., has Jubilee Hall completed and overflowing with students, and is now erecting Livingstone Missionary Hall, by the gift of Mrs. Stone; but endowments are the great necessity. Twenty-five thousand dollars will provide for a professorship, and there are seven such needing endowment.