—Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske has left to Cornell University $290,000 for library fund, building and other purposes.
—The University of Sydney has received a gift of $25,000 for the endowment of scholarships.
—Hon. John Evans, Ex-Governor of Colorado, has given $40,000 to the University of Denver since the beginning of the enterprise.
—Howard University is to receive $5,000 from the estate of Francis P. Schoals of New York City, which amount is to be paid at the death of his widow.
—Mrs. Noah Wood, of Bangor, Maine, has left $5,000 to Bowdoin College to found the Blake scholarship in memory of her son.
—Kenyon College has received $15,000 for scholarships from Mr. H. B. Curtis, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
—Col. Charles H. Northam bequeathed $75,000 to the general fund of Trinity College, Hartford, Ct., and $50,000 for the endowment of a professorship.
“If there is any place in this world where a great deal of money, wisely used, can work incalculable good, even tested by the simplest maxims of political economy and cent per cent, the endowment of the Christian schools for the Freedmen is that opportunity.”—A. D. Mayo, D.D.