Recent Gifts.

Alexander Duncan, class of '25, Yale, has just given $20,000 to the college to be used according to the judgment of the corporation. Trinity College has also received a gift of $50,000 without conditions of any kind. The gift was from the estate of the late S. M. Buckingham of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. But Exeter fares better than the colleges by receiving a gift of $110,000 from the will of the late F. E. Parker. The Yale Theological School has also been remembered, for by the will of the late Emily W. Colton, on the death of her husband Joseph, an interest in her estate will be paid to the school. The gift was made in memory of son, a graduate of the seminary. Now if some one would make Harvard a gift of $50,000 to be used in putting fire escapes on the buildings in the yard, the occupants of the present fire-traps would breathe easier.