With a farm of nearly two hundred acres, her facilities are rare indeed for aiding young men to obtain an education, who are disposed to help themselves. She has an efficient corps of instructors, enthusiastic in their work. Particularly is she fortunate in her new President, under whose wise administration the College has assumed a new character and taken a new position in the State. No one could listen to the earnest yet tender and eloquent words of counsel addressed to the graduating class by Pres. De Forest on presenting the diplomas, without the feeling that he is just the large-hearted, scholarly. Christian gentleman who is needed in the place which he occupies. But notwithstanding all this, Talladega has very pressing needs. Her accommodations for young men are altogether inadequate to the demand, and such as she has are of a very indifferent character. A donation of $15,000 from the Stone Estate, however, gives cheering prospects that during the coming year this sore need will be met. But $10,000 more is needed just as much for furnishing the new dormitory, improving the College grounds, and making necessary repairs on “Swayne Hall,” which, though originally costing $30,000, and a very stately building, is literally going to ruin from lack of means to repair it. These facts being known, may it not reasonably be hoped that in the near future, friends of humanity and of Christian education may be found, who will recognize this rare opportunity for investments, and come to the rescue of a worthy and suffering College? Who will be the first? * * * * * BEREA COLLEGE. Busy and Varied Scene—Range of Topics—Stirring Addresses—Brotherhood—Pioneers. BY SECRETARY STRIEBY. The little village of Berea, Ky., presented a busy scene on the 16th day of June. Commencement day brought together a crowd that for numbers and variety is seldom collected on such an occasion. The gathering began early in the day. Fine buggies and carriages came filled with people, and with them were wheeled vehicles of almost every variety of construction and in almost every stage of decay. But the larger part of the crowd came on horseback in true Kentucky style, frequently two, and in some cases three persons riding on the same animal. The College campus comprises many acres, covered quite uniformly with a fine growth of large trees. On the day before, I had noticed little slats nailed on these trees, and their use was explained to-day by the horses hitched to them. There must have been 800 or 900 horses on the campus.