ATLANTA UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GA.—Baccalaureate Sermon, Sunday, June 12th, Examinations, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, to be attended by the Examining Committee appointed by the Governor of Georgia. Commencement Exercises Thursday. Address by Rev. Atticus G. Haygood, D.D., President of Emory College. TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY, TOUGALOO, MISS.—Baccalaureate Sermon by Rev. M. E. Strieby, D.D., Sunday, May 29th. Examinations and closing exercises Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LA.—Baccalaureate Sermon, Sunday, May 29th. Examinations and closing exercises, May 30th and 31st and June 1st. TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.—Examinations and closing exercises, June 8th, 9th and 10th. BEACH INSTITUTE, SAVANNAH, GA.—Examinations and closing exercises, May 26th and 27th. SWAYNE SCHOOL, MONTGOMERY, ALA.—Examinations and closing exercises, May 30th and 31st. EMERSON INSTITUTE, MOBILE, ALA.—Examinations and closing exercises, May 25th, 26th and 27th. LE MOYNE INSTITUTE, MEMPHIS, TENN.—Annual Sermon, Sunday evening, May 29th. Junior Exhibition, Monday, 30th. Graduating exercises, Wednesday, June 1st. LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL, MACON, GA.—Examinations and closing exercises, May 31st and June 1st. AVERY INSTITUTE, CHARLESTON, S.C.—Examinations and closing exercises, June 29th and 30th. The next meeting of the National Teachers’ Association will be held in Atlanta, Ga., July 19th. This opportunity for interchange of views between Northern and Southern teachers ought to result in great good. Northern teachers need not fear to visit Atlanta at that season of the year, as its altitude, about eleven hundred feet above the sea, gives it a mild and healthful climate. Our teachers often spend their summer there. * * * * * BENEFACTIONS. Cyrus McCormick, of Chicago, has added $75,000 to his former gifts to the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of that place. Robert L. Stewart has enlarged his gift to the San Francisco Presbyterian Theological Seminary from $20,000 to $50,000. Mr. Moses Hopkins, brother of the late Mark Hopkins, has just given to a California academy an endowment of $50,000, the largest sum yet bestowed in this way by any one person in that State. Harvard College has received a gift of $115,000 for the erection of a physical laboratory, provided a fund of $75,000 be raised to defray the running expenses. As in the case of the Law School, the name of the benefactor is not to be made public. Mr. Thomas A. Scott has endowed the chair of Mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania, now occupied by Prof. Kendall, with $50,000. He has also given $50,000 to Jefferson College, $30,000 to the Orthopedic Hospital, and $20,000 to the children’s department of the Episcopal Hospital.