Andover Re-endowment Fund.

The movement which is being made towards raising a re-endowment fund for Phillips Andover academy is being energetically pushed. Over $40,000 has been subscribed since last spring, and active measures are being taken to raise $20,000 by subscriptions about Boston. The object of the Boston subscriptions is to help pay for the new scientific building which is being built, and which will probably be finished in April at a cost of $40,000.

Work on this building is rapidly progressing. The roof is now on and the outlines of a very handsome school building are seen. This building will be the first fruits of the re-endowment movement and will be a very greatly needed addition. At present it is necessary to hold quite a number of recitations daily in a private house.

The Taylor cottage, being the first of the new dormitories, and so named in recognition of the efforts of Prof. John Phelps Taylor in behalf of re-endowment, is now roofed over and will be ready for occupancy in the spring. It is being built by funds given by Mr. Melville C. Day, a prominent New York lawyer, who was graduated from Andover in 1858. Plans have been accepted for the second of these new dormitories, to be built by the subscriptions of the citizens of Andover, and which is to be known as the Andover Cottage. Work on this building will begin the spring.

Professor John Phelps Taylor of Andover has charge of the fund; and the committee to co-operate with him are: from the class of 1840. Hon. Philip H. Sears; 1841, Sereno D. Nickerson; 1845, Charles W. Seabury; 1846, Richard H. Stearns; 1847, J. Garener, Tewksbury; 1848, J. M. Rodocanachi; 1850, R. C. Winthrop, Jr., 1852, Hon. A. B. Coffin; 1852, Moses Merill, Ph. D.; 1854, Samuel W. Abbott, M. D., 1856 Charles E. Inches; 1857, Charles Storrow; 1864, Robert L. Means; 1870, Col. G. H. Campbell; 1875, Rev. Nehemiah Boynton,