—Howard University is to receive $5,000 from the estate of Francis P. Schoals of New York City, which amount is to be paid at the death of his widow. —Mrs. Noah Wood, of Bangor, Maine, has left $5,000 to Bowdoin College to found the Blake scholarship in memory of her son. —Kenyon College has received $15,000 for scholarships from Mr. H. B. Curtis, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. —Col. Charles H. Northam bequeathed $75,000 to the general fund of Trinity College, Hartford, Ct., and $50,000 for the endowment of a professorship. “_If there is any place in this world where a great deal of money, wisely used, can work incalculable good, even tested by the simplest maxims of political economy and cent per cent, the endowment of the Christian schools for the Freedmen is that opportunity._”—_A. D. Mayo, D.D._ * * * * * ITEMS FROM THE FIELD. _Orangeburg, S.C._—The people here are rejoicing in a new $50 bell bought by themselves. They have also put up a bell tower. _Tuskegee, Ala._—Mr. B. T. Washington writes: “Please allow me space to express the thanks of this school to the _Smith American Organ Company_, of Boston, for the donation of one of their superior cabinet organs. It is a valuable addition to our school.” _Athens, Ala._—Rev. H. S. Williams writes of a union effort in the churches at this place, which has proved a success. Twenty-seven conversions are reported as the result. _Savannah, Ga._—The Sabbath-school has begun to yield excellent fruit. Having $30 in the treasury they voted to send one of their number to Atlanta University for a year. After a spirited contest on the part of several members of the school to win the prize the decision was finally favorable to Palmer Lloyd, a boy of about 15 years. He went to Atlanta in time for the opening of the term. Fifty dollars in all were needed to insure him a year’s study. To raise the remaining $20 the Sabbath school gave a musical entertainment and ice-cream supper and were successful in raising the amount needed. _First Impressions of a New Teacher._—After nearly two months’ work I feel that I am more interested than when I came, which I thought would be impossible. The work is more vast and _awful_ in its importance. I do not wonder, as I did at first, at the careworn faces of the teachers who have been long in the work. The possibilities for good or ill of the race are to be contemplated by us only with fear and trembling, unless God works through and by us. I enjoy the work heartily. It consists, more than I could before understand, in laying foundations.