* * * * * BENEFACTIONS. Mr. Deering has given $50,000 to the Northwestern University of the Methodists at Evanston, Illinois. Mr. John C. Phillips has given $25,000 for the further endowment of Phillips Exeter Academy. Wm. H. Vanderbilt has added $100,000 to the endowment fund of Vanderbilt University. Lafayette College has received from Mr. T. W. McWilliams of New York a contribution of $10,000 toward the endowment of the March Chair of Philology. Mr. J. H. Cassedy of Thiells, N.Y., has given $5,000 to Talladega College for a model school building, to bear his name. Miss Susie Bartlett of Oshkosh, Wis. has given $500 to Beloit College for the purchase of scientific books. By the will of Amasa Stone, Adelbert College is to receive $100,000 in addition to the half million given during his lifetime. The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N.Y. has received from Mrs. Wm. Howard Harts, as a memorial of her late husband, $60,000 to endow a professorship to bear his name. Mrs. Dr. Griffin of Troy, N.Y., a former preceptress at Cazenovia Seminary, has given $5,000 to that institution. Oberlin College has received $5,000 from Miss Sturges of Mansfield, Ohio, for a new building for the use of ladies’ societies, to be called Sturges Hall. By the will of Lucy O. Bowditch, late of Boston, a bequest of $5,000 is made to the industrial school for girls, at Dorchester, to be added to the permanent fund, the income to be applied to paying the expenses of the school. _Endowments for the Christian education of the coming generations are the best bulwarks of our free institutions._ * * * * * THE SOUTH. REV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT. PROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. * * * * * ANNIVERSARY REPORTS. * * * * * BEREA COLLEGE. Prof. W. E. C. Wright. The seventeenth year of Berea College closed on June 30th with most satisfactory marks of the sustained usefulness and increasing importance of the school. The Commencement festival really began with the joint exhibition of the Ladies’ Literary and Phi Delta Societies on Friday evening, before a large audience, in the chapel. The pupils of the lower schools gave their interesting exhibitions in the same place on Saturday evening. President Fairchild’s baccalaureate discourse on Sunday morning was a vigorous and comprehensive rehearsal of the religious and moral ideas of consecration to God and love toward all men, which this college has ever sought to impress on its students; his text, Phil. iv., 9, “Those things, which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me, do.” No Christian man could have heard it without feeling how supremely important for the educational regeneration of the South is such a spirit of religious earnestness.