The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-22

teachers as writer's, as mothers, as members
of society, their power for good will be
incidentally enlarged" The institution is
to bear the name of Smith College. If there
is more than $500, 900 left after paying other
legatees, the whole is to go to the colleges if
less, il is to accumulate until it reaches that
sum. To secure it, Northampton must make
the required contribution of $4,000 within
two years, otherwise it goes to Hatfield.
Not more then half the bequest may be in
vested in buildings and grounds; the other
half to be permanent fund, of which the in
terest only is to be used forever, for furnish
ing teachers, library, and apparatus for the
higher education of young women, and the
general purposes and objects of the institu-
ton. The will provides further, that the
''Holy Scriptures shall be daily and systema-
tically read and studied in said college, and
without giving the preference to any sect or
denomination, all the education and all the
discipline shall be pervaded by the spirit of
the Christian religion. The studies are
to embrace 'higher culture in the Eng
lish language and literature, also in
ancient and modern languages, in
mathematical and physical sciences, in the
useful and fine arts, in intellectual, moral
and aesthetic philosophy, in natural theology,
in the evidences of Christianity, in gymnas-
tics and physical culture, in the sciences and
arts that pertain to education, society and
government and such other studies as coming
times may develop or demand for the educa-
ton of woman and the progress of the race.
l would have the education suited to the
me ntal and physical wants of women. 1t
is not my design to render my sex any the
less feminine, but to develop, as fully as
may be, the powers of womanhood and to
furnish women with the means of usefulness,
happiness and honor, now withheld from
them" The first trustees of the college are
to be Charles Z. Forbes and Osmyn
Baker of Northampton; Rev. John NJ.
Greene, of South Hadley (now Of
Lowell); Professor w. S. Tyler and julius
II. Seelye, of Amherst College, and
Edward A. Park, of Andover; William B.
Washburn, of Greenfield; Joseph White, of
Williamstown; Rev. b. G.. Northrup, of New
Haven; Edward b. Gillett, of Westfeld, and
George w. Hubbard, of Hatfield. Full power
to increase their number or fill vacancies is
given to these trustees, and they are instructed
to invest and expend this money to found and
set in operation this institution as soon as
may be after the death of the testator, with
full powers to act, excepting only the restric-
tions already mentioned. The same provi-
sions against conflict with legal statutes are
in this will which were in that of Oliver
Smith. The full bequests of the will, in addi-
ton to this sum and Jhe S75, 600 given to Hat
field for an academy, are as folows:-To the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, to the American Tract Society of
New York, to the American Home Missionary
Society, and to the American Bible Society,
5000 each; to Mrs. Electa Graves, of this
city, and Charlotte W. Billings, of Hatfield,
$1,000 each, and to the latter her jewelry,
clothing, and furniture; to Almira Ransom,
Lucy A. Riker, Maria Storrs, Betsy Caldwell,
Mary Graves, Nancy Morgan, Mary Vinton,
Almira Lyman, Asenath Smith, Thera White.
Lavinia Smith, and Caroline Smith, $500
each; to Louisa d., wife of Rev. John NJ.
Greene; Philura T., wife OF George w. Hub
bard; Ann Larkin, a former domestic; and
Mary Harney, 800 each. The will is wit
messed by Lewis Rodman, of Williamsburg,
and Eleazer Porter and John C. Hammond,
of Hadley. ....