Two gifts, one of $50,000 and the other of $10,000, were announced at the fall meeting of the board of trustees of Williams College at Williamstown. The gift of $50,000 was a check signed by Alfred C. Chapin, Williams, '69, of New York City, who gave a similar amount to the college a few days before commencement last June, and was without restrictions, the use of the money being left to the discretion of the board of trustees. The second gift, of $10,000, was by Charles T. Barney, Williams, '70, of New York, and will be applied toward the payment for the property on Spring street in Williamstown, which the college acquired last summer for the purpose of improving the adjoining part of the campus.

Count John A. Creighton, one of the founders of Creighton University, Omaha, Neb., has deeded to that institution two buildings in the wholesale district worth about $500,000. One building was finished last summer and the other is not yet completed. They are leased for a long term of years and will pay the university about 5 per cent net on the above valuation. Count Creighton had heretofore endowed the university liberally. This gift was made in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday, which was celebrated on October 15th.

It has been announced that a professor of lumbering will be appointed at Yale as soon as an endowment fund of $150,ooo is raised by the National Lumber Manufacturing Association for a chair of practical lumbering at the Forest school of the university. Arrangements have been made by which the work in the department has been started, the committee in charge consisting of N. W. McLeod of St. Louis, C. I. Millard

of Chicago and F. E. Weyerhaeuser of St. Paul.

The brick work on Burritt College, Spencer, Tenn., has been completed and it is thought that the building will be finished and ready for use by the first Monday in February next. The building will cost about $13,000 and will be one of the best of its kind in this section of the state. It is predicted that there. will be a full attendance this coming spring term.

The Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., has just received, through Father Anthony H. Walburg, of Cincinnati, a donation of $15,000 for the establishment of a chair of German. Father Walburg is endeavoring to raise $50,000, the amount necessary to establish the chair. During the past two years he has secured $30,000, and it is expected that within a like period he will raise the remaining amount.

A feature of the new correspondence school opened by the University of Wisconsin will be the use of phonography. Professors will read lectures into phonographs and the records will be sent to distant students willing to pay the price. The innovation will be tried first in German to overcome the pronunciation of difficult sounds.

The University of Pennsylvania last month dedicated the million-dollar engineering building which is expected to mark the start of a new era in American technical training. Six foreign governments appointed representatives to attend the formal dedication, and more than one hundred American scientific institutions and universities named delegates.

Frederick W. Taylor, president of the

Society of American Mechanical Engineers, and Dr. Alexander C. Humphreys, president of Stevens Institute of Technology, delivered the principal addresses, and Provost Harrison conferred honorary degrees upon twelve distinguished engineers.

The building dedicated is the largest of the seventy buildings now occupied by the University of Pennsylvania, having a frontage of 300 feet and a depth of 210 feet. It is of fire-proof construction, and the equipment is of the most modern and approved type. The exterior is of dark brick, with limestone trimmings, and while the general architectural treatment is of the EnglishGeorgian school, and in accord with the keynote given by the dormitory buildings and later university halls, it is in a quieter vein. There are three stories, with a basement covering a third of the entire building, the total floor area being 128,000 square feet. The heating is by direct steam; the ventilation by electrically driven fans, and the lighting by electricity. In the east and west wings ample space is assigned to the engineering museums, while the rear of this floor is set aside exclusively for additional drawing-rooms, which, like those just beneath, will have the full advantage of a north light.

The engineering department of the university was established in 1874, but the constant increase of numbers in the classes of the departments has necessitated their moving into more spacious quarters three times since their founding. The departments this year have a total enrollment of nearly six hundred students and a teaching force of forty. The new quarters which will be occupied this fall are believed to be the finest and most complete laboratories of their kind for instruction in engineering.

The late George W. Harris of Boston has given Brown University a valuable collection of books in memory of his father, Luther M. Harris, who was graduated from Brown in 1861. George Harris has been well known as a connoisseur and collector of works of art

and its literature. The gift includes over 3,000 volumes. In addition he has given a fine lot of paintings, pieces of sculpture and exquisite designs in pottery, glass and bronze. Among the paintings are a Rembrandt, a Tintoretto, a Valasquez, an Andrea del Sarto and at Murillo.

Woodbury F. Langdon of Plymouth, N. H., a graduate of Bowdoin in 1853, has offered to the trustees of the college his estate on Asquam Lake, N. H., on the condition that it be held for the use of the college faculty. Mr. Langdon and his brother, the late John L. Langdon (Bowdoin, 1857), are grand-nephews of Hon. John Langdon, former governor of New Hampshire.

The first decisive step in establishing an industrial school for the colored people of Worcester (Mass.) was taken recently, when surveyors laid out the lot for the temporary strucutres of the coilege on the land of the Massachusetts Afro-American society on Clark street. Two years ago the trustees of the proposed college bought 100 acres of land from Oran A. Kelly, and since then the matter has apparently dropped out of sight. The trustees got a price of $30,ooo on the land, and are paying off the debt. Up to recently the trustees did not feel that the finances on hand warranted the beginning of the work. The prospects now look bright, and the work will be rushed on. It is the intention of the trustees to open the college to 40 or 50 pupils March 1, 1907, and in May of the same year work will be begun on the permanent college buildings, which will cost about $1,000,000.

The interest which Germans all over the country have taken in the erection of the Germanic Museum at Harvard University has increased so greatly that material aid comes from German individuals and organizations not only in the United States, but also in Germany. The Germans in Boston have been very

active toward the success of this unique institution and various societies have in the past held concerts and entertainments that have swelled the fund of the Germanic Museum.

The botanical department of the University of Illinois has just completed the purchase of the private herbarium of George D. McDonald of Peoria, Ill. Mr. McDonald devoted twenty years to the collection of it. In all, the herbarium has about 12,000 specimens, and aii are flowering plants or ferns.

Wellesley has recently received by bequest from A. A. Sweet, the sum of $5,000, the income of which is to be applied to the purchasing of books for the department of Biblical history. From the estate of the late Moses Babcock of Sherborn, the college also has received a large and interesting zoological collection.

At the last meeting of the trustees of Columbia University, the following gifts were announced. Towards salaries in the department of philosophy, $1,250; from Mrs. James W. Gerard, to maintain the Martha Daly scholarship, $1,000; from Rutherford Stuyvesant of the class of '63, for the department of astronomy, $500; from an anonymous donor, for the department of clinical pathology, $500; from Benjamin D. Lawrence of the class of '78, to maintain an annual scholarship in the School of Mines, $250; from James Loeb of New York, to buy books for the library, $175. It was announced that the Carnegie Foundation had granted the retiring allowances to Professor John K. Rees of the department of astronomy, and to Professor Edward H. Castle of the department of history, because of disability.

A gift of ten thousand dollars from Miss Helen J. Sanborn has swelled the library fund of Wellesley to $41,101. Miss Sanborn was graduated from the

college in 1884. It is still necessary to get $79,000 to earn the $125,000 endowment from Andrew Carnegie.

Fire partially destroyed Trowbridge Hall, the young ladies' dormitory of Defiance college, Defiance, Ohio, early in the morning of Oct. 28, and fiftysix girls had a narrow escape. The loss is about $10,000, fully covered by insurance. The building was dedicated a year ago and was the gift of Lyman Trowbridge of Defiance. It was modern throughout. The entire west end of the building was razed. The contents were not insured and the college will lose heavily. The building and contents. cost about $30,000.

Subscriptions for the Butler College (Ind.) endowment fund are being received by the Commercial Club of Indianapolis, and nearly $10,000 has been pledged for the enlarging of the institution. When $50,000 has been subscribed there will be available for the

college $250,000, most of which has been promised by persons outside of the city,

some of whom make it a condition that the citizens of Indianapolis shall subscribe $50,000 before their gifts become available.

Progress on the new building for the Harvard Law School, which was begun last spring, has now reached a point. where the form and size begin to be apparent. The walls are up as far as the top of the first story, and work is being rushed to get the building in shape for winter. The new hall is situated on Holmes field, back and to the right of Austin Hall, the present law school building, and facing west. It will consist of a large central part with a small wing on the south side and a much larger wing on the north. The material is white, machine-tooled limestone. subway opening into the basement will connect the building with the present law school. On the first floor there will be three lecture-rooms, two of which will be large and commodious. Also on this

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floor considerable room will be given up to the book stacks of the library. The second floor will be occupied by two large reading-rooms and the main library room. The bookstacks will be in seven tiers, or floors, though in the other parts of the building there will be only two floors above the basement. It is expected that the building will be ready for use at the opening of the college. year in 1907.

Contingent upon his wife's niece dying without issue, James Connolly, of St. Louis, directed in his will, which has been filed for probate, that his estate go in equal portions to the following institutions:

Christian Brothers College, St. Louis University, Washington University, University of Missouri, Kendrick Catholic Theological Seminary, Joseph's Male Orphan Asylum, and the Christian Orphans' home.

The property is to be held in trust by his wife, Margaret, and the St. Louis Union Trust Company, the income to be paid to Mrs. Connolly. After her death the income is to be paid to her sister, Annie Moran, and after her death to his wife's niece, Grace Warner. Should the latter die leaving children, the income is to be used in supporting and educating them, and the principal is to be divided among them when they become of age.

Should the property go to the institutions, it is to be used to form perpetual funds for the support and education of poor persons and theological students.

The contract has been awarded for the construction of the new girls' dormitory at the Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis. The contract price is $71,300. Work upon the new structure will begin at once and it will be ready for occupancy by the next fall term.

The dormitory when completed will have accommodations for 300 students. It will consist of a central structure with two projecting wings and it will be in the form of a "double L." The girls will

have their apartments in the wings and in the main building will be arranged the domestic science class rooms. The structure will be 278 feet in length and 103 feet in width. It will have three stories and a basement. The basement will be of concrete and the walls of Newberg pressed brick. There will be hot and cold water in every room.

As a mark of appreciation of Lehigh University, from which he was graduated in 1887, from the School of Mines, Frank Williams has left his entire residuary estate to the institution in trust, the income to aid poor students. The bequest amounts to $122,000 or more.

Mr. Williams entered the university as a poor boy. After graduation he made a fortune in business, largely through the establishment of firebrick plants in the western part of the state. He was only 35 years of age at the time of his death.

Kentucky Presbyterians are to have a great Women's College. This was finally decided by the two synods of the State, the Northern Synod meeting in Louisville and the Southern Synod in Henderson. Each voted $40,000 to assist in starting the project, which contemplates the use of Caldwell College at Danville and the erection of additional buildings on twelve acres of ground adjacent to the college. The Northern Presbyterians have already raised $15,000 of the necessary $40,000, as have the Southern Presbyterians. A committee of six was appointed by the Northern Presbyterians to raise the additional $25,000 by April 1 of next year.

Cornell University will shortly get a legacy of between $100,000 and $200,000 as the result of the death of Mrs. Howe, the sister of the late F. W. Guiteau. When Mr. Guiteau died he left the legacy subject to a life interest. in favor of his sister. By the terms of the will the money must be expended in advancing and assisting worthy young men in pursuit of their studies. As soon

as the estate is settled the bequest will go into operation.

Announcement was recently made before the Cumberland Presbyterian Synod that James Milliken has donated $50,000 to Milliken University, of Decatur, Ill., for building a girls' dormitory.

President R. C. Hughes of Ripon College, Ripon, Wis., has received a check for $2,500 from O. H. Ingram of Eau Claire, completing the fund of $7,000 subscribed for improvements in West College, Ingram Hall and Bartlett Hall. Mr. Ingram is a graduate of Ripon College and one of its greatest benefactors.

Dr. Hughes has also received a check of $3,000 from Mrs. Chadbourn of Columbus. This is also to be applied to the $7,000 fund for the repairs on buildings.

The will of the late William Drury, just probated, gives to the city of Aledo, Ill., a college to be known as the William and Vashti. The sum of $112,000, one-half the estate, was left for this purpose. The city offered a cash bid of $6,210 and a fine geological collection valued at $35,000, which was donated by William Marsh, Sr., in order to secure this legacy. By the terms of the will the college was to go to the city which made the largest cash bid. Aledo made the only bid and the administrator turned over the bequest to that place.

The institution will be of a polytechnic character. The main building will cost $40,000. The board of control is to comprise the mayor, county judge, chairman of the board of supervisors, the county clerk and country treasurer and their successors in office. upon the buildings will commence at

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The locating board for the Christian University of Oklahoma has accepted the bid made by Enid for the institution. It is for $85,000 cash, forty acres of land and a guarantee of 300 students to begin the first school year. This was the

highest bid and was selected in accordance with the rules, in that the best bid would be the successful one. The name of Oklahoma Christian University will be given the new institution. A charter will at once be applied for and the work of organizing the new school be mapped out. It is the intention to have the building erected and school open in September, 1907.

Rev. E. V. Zollars, of Hiram, Ohio, who has been in charge of the work, will continue to act at the head of affairs, and will superintend the plans and all construction work of the building. Rev. Mr. Zollars resigned from the Christian University of Texas to superintend this work. At first is was the idea of having a Bible school only, but when the size of the bids were known it was decided that an institution on a much larger scale could be established, and it was then decided to make it a university, with numerous departments. There will be literary, music, science and art departments, and other additions will be made as it becomes necessary.

Another giant telescope is to be built, beside which, it is said, all now in use will be as pigmies. The new instrument is projected by Prof. George E. Hale, head of the astronomical research department of the University of Chicago and director of the Yerkes observatory from the time of its establishment until his removal to Pasadena, Cal., three years ago to take charge of the observatory on the summit of Mount Wilson. The announcement is made in the pages of Prof. Hale's Astrophysical Journal, issued from the University of Chicago press. The object glass of this new instrument, which is to cost $40,000, will be a disk of glass 100 inches in diameter and 13 inches thick. This glass will weigh four and one-half tons. It is to be cast in France and ground and polished at Mount Wilson by Prof. G. Willis Ritchey.

This mammoth telescope was made possible by a gift to the Carnegie Institute, of which the Mount Wilson ob