The sum of $192,000, the largest single cash gift ever received by Williams College, will soon be turned over to the college to use in any way it sees fit. The sum comes from the estate of Mrs. Lura Currier, who died several years ago, and in her will arranged to transfer that amount to Williams upon the death of her stepson, Edward West Currier, who, as a life tenant under the will held the money in trust. The recent death of the latter occasioned the announcement of the gift. The college has not yet received the money, as the gift, by the terms of the will, cannot come to Williams until all other outstanding claims against the estate, with one exception, are settled. That one exception is Yale College, which, as residuary legatee, will probably receive some $100,000. As Alfred C. Chapin, '69, gave to the college last year $100,000 more with no stipulations as to use, the college now has $292,000 of free funds for any purpose it desires.

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A new undertaking of the Harvard Divinity School is the publication of a quarterly magazine, to be called the "Harvard Theological Review." The first number will be issued in January, 1908. Funds for the new work have been provided in part by the bequest of the late Miss Mildred Everett, who gave a sum of money to the Divinity School in pursuance of a plan suggested by her father, Rev. Charles Carrol Everett. The purpose of the new publication will be to record and further the progress of learning in the various fields of theological study, and also to discuss current problems and methods in such kindred departments as education, economics, sociology, and the history of religions, in so far as these are related to theological interests. The aim will be to maintain a spirit at once catholic and scientific, in sympathy with the purposes and activities. of the Christian Church as well as with scholarly investigations. The annual volume of the Review, containing about 500

pages, will be regarded as the unit of publication. Comprehensive surveys by competent scholars of important contributions to theological literature with accounts of discovery and research, will be a feature of the magazine. A wide diversity of topics, corresponding to the manifold interests of the readers will be discussed, and the attempt will be to represent the various departments of theological work in proper proportion. There will be no continued articles, even though it may be necessary to devote a whole number to a single contribution. The Review will be conducted by a committee of the faculty of the Divinity School.

McGill University, Montreal, last month suffered two disastrous fires within two weeks. Early on the morning of April 5th, the McDonald Engineering Building was destroyed. The loss is estimated between half and three-quarters of a million dollars. It was supposed to have been the best equipped building of its kind on the continent. Nothing definite is known as to how the fire originated. The insurance is $420,000. Certain collections which were destroyed cannot be replaced.

The second fire occurred on the morning of April 16th, and destroyed the medical building, one of the oldest and most valuable on the college grounds. In addition to the other equipment of the college medical building, the museum, one of the best on the continent, was destroyed. The museum had been forming its collection for nearly three-quarters of a century, and contained many priceless specimens. The magnificent library was saved. Dr. F. J. Shepard stated that the fire had destroyed his anatomical collection, which was famous throughout America.

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Dr. Samuel Plantz, president of Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., has announced that a gift of $15,000 had been

received toward the $150,000 which must be raised to meet the conditions of the general education board, which offers $50,000 to the institution. The donor's name is not given out, but it is intimated that he is not a man of great wealth. On excellent authority it is stated that this donor has given over half his possessions in making the gift. In addition to this gift he has made a verbal promise to give the last $10,000 toward the completion of the $150,000 which is required. With the $80,000 already subscribed, this means that $33,000 is pledged toward the fund.

Work has begun on the Grace Hopkinson Eliot Hall, at Harvard, named for Mrs. Eliot, which is being erected out of the fund given for the purpose by Mrs. David P. Kimball of Boston. The hall, which will be for the use of Radcliffe students, will be built on the corner of Shepard and Walker streets, next to Bertram Hall, also the gift of Mrs. Kimball.

Two gifts of $100,000 to Yale University have been announced. One of these is made under the will of William C. Eggleston, who died on March 25 in New York. The other $100,000 goes to the university as a result of the recent death in New York of Edward West Currier. The bequest was provided for in the will of Laura Currier, who at her death some time ago left the property to Edward West Currier to hold in trust during his lifetime and then to go to Yale University. The fund is to be known as the "Nathaniel Currier Fund," and the income to be paid "to deserving students in need of assistance, preference being given to students coming from New York city."

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A move is on foot to establish a state college to be supported by the Christian church in Kansas. Offers for the location of this institution have been received from Lyons and El Dorado. Lyons has offered forty acres of land worth $100 an acre and has also agreed to raise onefifth of the cost of the first college building which may be erected there. The

The special committee of the Iowa State Baptist Convention which was appointed last year to determine upon some plan for the consolidation of the Baptist colleges of the state has finally prepared a report. It provides that either Des Moines College or Central University of Pella is eligible as the location of the consolidated institution, but that the college to be chosen must first raise $100,000 cash as additional endowment before Sept. 1, 1907, and meet certain other conditions named by the committee. This $100,000 must be in cash, or in 5 per cent notes with approved security, payable on or before July 1, 1909. This sum must be an addition to the assets of the institution and must be secured exclusive of any funds contributed by Andrew Carne

gie, John D. Rockefeller or the General Educational Foundation.

In event that only one of the two colleges shall comply fully with the conditions by Sept. 1, 1907, that college shall be chosen as the state denominational institution. In event that both of them meet the conditions, the location of the denominational college shall be determined by the convention in view of all the conditions existing at the time the convention passes upon the matter. In event that neither of the two schools

meets the requirements, the denominational college shall be located at such third point as shall offer the best financial inducements therefor.

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The new $105.000 building of the German Theological Seminary of the Northwest at Dubuque, Ia., was dedicated on April 25th with appropriate ceremonies. The dedicatory sermon was delivered by the Rev. Henry Schmitt of Foreston, Ill., the dedicatory address by the Rev. Dr. John Balcom Shaw, and the address to the students by Senator Allison.

Professor Reddick's School for Girls, Americus, Ga., one of the best known colored schools in the South, had its largest dormitory completely destroyed by fire on April 11th. The building was a very large wooden structure and the loss is about $3,000, besides the loss to individual students, they losing everything. The building was partly covered by insurance. The dormitory will be rebuilt.

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William Pore, a retired steel manufacturer of Pittsburg, gave $25,000 to the Carthage College, of Carthage, Ill. The money is part of a fund of $200,000 the college is obliged to raise before Andrew Carnegie will erect the Carnegie Science Hall, a proposed addition to the Carthage College. This gift leaves $75,000 yet to be raised.

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By the terms of the will just filed in New York, F. P. Fernald leaves $300,ooo to Columbia University for the purpose of erecting a university residence

hall in memory of Royal Bleecker Fernald, who entered Columbia College as a member of the class of 1901 and who died before completing his course.

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Phillips Exeter Academy gets $20,000 by the will of Josiah H. Hobbs, late of Washington, but a native of Dover. During the lifetime of the testator's sister, Harriet N. Hobbs, the income is to be paid to her, and at her death all will go to Phillips Exeter to form the "George Frank Hobbs Fund" to aid indigent and worthy students, preference to be given to natives and residents of New Hampshire. George Frank Hobbs, of whom the fund is to be a memorial, graduated at Exeter in 1859.

The boys' dormitory of Hargrove College, Ardmore, I. T., valued at about $3,500, with about $1,000 insurance, was destroyed by fire April 21st. The cause. of the fire is unknown on account of the fact that all were at supper when the flames broke out. It is supposed to have originated from a defective flue. A large number of the boys lost all of their belongings consisting of clothing, books and bedding. The college will not discontinue, President Gross having made arrangements to accommodate all of the students who were losers by the flames.

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The contract for rebuilding the East Texas College, which was burned some time ago, has been let. The building will be three stories and a basement and modern in every respect, costing when completed about $30,000.

Andrew Carnegie has donated $60,000 to the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., to be devoted to the erection of a science hall.

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An additional story is to be placed on the new building for the Creighton School of Pharmacy, Omaha, which is now under course of construction, adjoining the Creighton Medical School. The new building will be four stories in height instead of three as was originally contemplated, and the additional story will be used for the pickling rooms for the storage of cadavers for the medical college. Work on the pharmacy building has been delayed because of the inability of the contractors to secure sufcient brick, but is now being pushed to completion and will be ready for occupancy before the fall term of school opens.

The late William L. McLane, of the class of '69, Yale, who died in 1903, made Yale residuary legatee after the death of his widow. The college, by her death, now comes into possession of about $95,000 of well-invested funds. Owing to recent shrinkage of securities, the Ross legacy will not show the gain of $110,000 estimated, but will supply about $75,000 for maintenance of the new library over and above the sum of about $250,000 used in building the structure. The Ross property is in stocks, bonds and some New York real

estate.

A valuable addition to the equipment of the department of palæontology of the University of Toronto has been made by the donations of Byron E. Walker. To his recent gift of more than 10,000 geo

logical specimens he has added his whole collection of books, numbering 645 bound volumes, besides pamphlets bearing on the specimens and upon the science of geology and paleontology.

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An effort is to be made to erect a college building as a memorial to Methodist Bishop Charles C. McCabe on the grounds of the American University, Washington, D. C., of which university he was chancellor at the time of his death.

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An expert appraisal has been made of the Jarves collection of paintings in the north gallery of the Yale Art School and its value has been fixed at about $260,

000.

The collection was made by James J. Jarves during long residence in Florence, Italy, and consists of 120 pictures illustrating the rise of Christian art from the eleventh century to the beginning of the seventeenth century. It was mortgaged to the art school by Mr. Jarves in 1868 and finally secured at a cost not one-tenth of the amount at which it is now appraised, though at the time when. it was acquired there was warm controversy over its actual value. One of the paintings is now valued at considerably more than the amount paid for the whole collection. It is noteworthy, also, that the famous Trumbull collection held by the art school and now available, was obtained at a cost of $12,000 to Colonel Trumbull by the college in an annuity of $1,000 a year for twelve years.

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By the terms of the will of the late Thomas P. Salter, a former New York merchant and member of a Portsmouth, N. H., family, a sum amounting to about $300,000 is left to Dartmouth College, $100,000 of which is set aside to establish two scholarships for students from Portsmouth. The remainder of the bequest may be expended as the trustees of the college direct.

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The New Hampshire State College at Durham will soon have a $20,000 dormitory for young women. At a meeting of the board of college trustees it was voted to take $10,000 of the money appropri