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a separate building at its own expense, which 

 it may also use, if it pleases, for the articles 

 belonging to the five departments mentioned. 

 No charge will be made for space allotted for 

 such building. All articles which shall be 

 imported from foreign countries for the sole 

 purpose of exhibition, and not used for com- 

 mercial purposes in the country, and all ma- 

 terials for the buildings of foreig-n govern- 

 ments, or special exhibition buildings and 

 decorations thereof, will be admitted free of 

 duty. It is proposed to make a special 

 arrangement concerning articles which shall 

 be imported from foreign countries for sale 

 at bazaars, or things intended for amusement 

 and shows which are liable to customs duty, 

 and a bill to that efPect will be -introduced in 

 the next session of the diet. It is also in- 

 tended to afford special protection to all in- 

 ventions, designs, models of utility, and trade 

 marks of foreign exhibits, and a bill to that 

 effect will be introduced in the next session of 

 the diet. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NE^VS 



According to the daily papers the will of 

 the late Mrs. Lydia Bradley disposes of an 

 estate valued at $3,000,000. Almost the en- 

 tire property goes to the Bradley Polytechnic 

 of Peoria, 111., which she established. Mrs. 

 Bradley left only $5,000 to be divided among 

 the children of her brothers and sisters, who, 

 it is said, will institute suit to annul the 

 will. 



The Eev. Dr. Henry M. Sanders, who, in 

 1901, retired from the pastorate of the Madi- 

 son Avenue Baptist Church, New York, has 

 given $^6,000 to Vassar College for the erec- 

 tion of a chemical laboratory. Plans for the 

 building have been accepted, and construction 

 will begin next month. The laboratory is to 

 be of brick with terra cotta facings and in 

 accord with the other buildings of the col- 

 lege. It will be 130 X 60 feet. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $200,000 ' 

 to Berea College, subject to an equal amount 

 being given by others. It will be remembered 

 that the Kentucky legislature required the 



separation of white and colored students, and 

 Berea College has undertaken to establish and 

 maintain two institutions. 



Mr. Carnegie, who recently gave $50,000 

 to Illinois College, at Jacksonville, after 

 $100,000 had been raised as a condition, has 

 now consented to give a further sum of $75,- 

 000 on condition that an equal sum be raised. 



According to the report of the treasurer of 

 Princeton University, the university received 

 during the last academic year gifts and be- 

 quests of the value of nearly a million dollars. 

 This included $200,000 from an anonymous 

 donor towards the biological laboratory, and 

 $116,000, received through the committee of 

 fifty for general purposes. 



The trustees of the Western University of 

 Pennsylvania have purchased for $68,000 

 twelve acres of the Schenley farms property, 

 near the Carnegie Institute and Carnegie 

 Technical Schools, Pittsburg. Plans will be 

 secured for the new buildings, which, when 

 completed, will cost over $1,000,000. 



The legislature of Wisconsin has appro- 

 priated $30,000 for the establishment of a 

 mining school at Platteville, which is in the 

 zinc and lead mining district of the state. 



Former Judge George G. Reynolds, of 

 Brooklyn, has established two scholarships 

 at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 

 from which he was gTaduated in 1841. 

 Twenty-five hundred dollars are provided for 

 each. 



Mr. H. O. Wills has promised £100,000 

 towards the endowment of the University for 

 Bristol and the West of England provided a 

 charter be granted within two years. 



From the estate of Richard Brown, Youngs- 

 town, Ohio, Mount Union College, Alliance, 

 Ohio, has received $30,000 for the endowment 

 of a professorship. The board of trustees at 

 their last meeting, in accordance with the 

 provisions of the bequest, installed such pro- 

 fessorship, and named it the Richard Brown 

 professorship of mathematics. Professor 

 Benjamin Franklin Yanney, head of the de- 

 partment of mathematics of the institution 

 since 1894, was elected to the professorship. 



