Henry L. Kendall, of Providence, has bequeathed $1,500 to the Hampton Institute.
Dr. Eliphalet Clark has left a bequest of $50,000 to the Kent’s Hill Methodist Seminary in Maine.
An unknown contributor, of Massachusetts, has given $5,000 to Williams College to establish a physical gymnasium.
Charles L. Colby has given $1,000,000 to establish a new university in Wisconsin. It was his father, Gardner Colby, who endowed the college which bears his name in Waterville, Me.
The large liberality of Dr. Lucien C. Warner, of New York, will provide a building three stories high, and 150 feet by 120, for the Conservatory of Music at Oberlin. It is expected to cost from $30,000 to $50,000.
Mr. and Mrs. Mills have just added $20,000 to their gifts to Mills Seminary, Oakland, Cal., and fifteen acres of land. Another gift of $5,000 has also been received, and one of $2,000 from Mrs. Wm. E. Dodge.
The trustees of the estate of the late Frederick Marquand have given a subscription to the Elmira Female College of $25,000, on condition that an equal sum be raised by the friends of the college.
The Canadian government has appropriated $44,000 for the establishment of Indian schools in the Northwest. Two schools are to be built with this money—one Protestant and one Catholic.
Mr. Moody has recently received from a gentleman in Boston a gift of $50,000 for his school at Northfield, on condition that an additional $50,000 be raised. Several scholarships of $3,000 each have also been received lately.
The demand for a new building at the Tillotson Institute, Austin, Texas, of which mention was made in our December Missionary, is very urgent. Last year the number of students turned away for lack of room was greater than the number admitted. Twenty thousand dollars, in addition to the amount already pledged for the purpose, are needed at once.