The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-07
OTHER ENGLISH GIFTS
 ID YALE UNIVERSITY. Many Recalled by Recent Be- quest from Lord Blount,
 of 0rleton.
FIRST FROM ELIHU YALE
Bishop Berkeley Presented a
 Farm at Newport in Sev- enteenth Century.

the university and who is said to have never been In the United States, Is enc of the many bequests to American colleges by persons entirely unknown to the recipients.
 President Hadley could not recall having heard of MT Blount, when news came of the latter's death and his Will giving to Yale his entire estate. Few Of the presidents of eastern colleges had ever heard of Daniel B. Payer weather, the New York leather mer- chant, when his will was announced nearly twenty years ago, leaving them sums ranging from $10OOOo to $5o0,OOO Although President Hadey did not know of Mir. Blount's plans, other Yale officials, however, did. For years Mir Blount had carried on a eorrespon- dence with the former treasurer, will liam W. Farnam; the former secretary Franklin Bowditch Dexter, and former President Dwight, at one time sending a copy of his will to Mir. Farnam
 Since the news of MT. Blount's death and bequest have been received, specu- lation has been rife at Yale over the origin of the interest the university's benefactor took in an institution thir- ty-flve hundred miles away and in Q foreign country. There Is theory held by some persons which seems plausi- ble, although lacking circumstantial verificatlon. MT, Blount lived in Here fordshire, near the home of George Washington Egleston of Kinnerslet castle, Eardsley, who in 1901, gave to Yale s1,OoO for the purpose of "estab- fishing at Yale the George Washing ton Egleston historical prize, the in come to be donated to any student who shall from year to year discover any new fact relating to American his- tory"
 MT. Egleston, while not a Yale man, has two brothers who were graduates of the university, and his interest in the university was active and enthusi-
 astic. It may be that from him MT.
 Blount caught the Yale spirit
 The list of Englishmen who have
 made gifts to Yale Is much larger
 than is generally supposed, although
 most of the list of names of donors
 were enrolled in the eighteenth cen
 tury while the college was a part of
 an English colony,
 The bequest which mS4de Yale
 stable and enduring was, of course, that of an Englishman, Elihu Yale,
 and in his honor the college was
 named
 MT. Yale's gift to tie little Connec-
 ticut college was fJ00. This was re- garded as bountifll by the almost penniless clergymen of the New Ha-
 ven colony, who had given their libra ries, their good will and their teach ing to start the college, and they
 named their offspring in his honor He planned to give the college valu'
 able books and $500 more, and he hat
 issued orders to that effect when ht died. He was the son of Thomas
 Yale, an English merchant who hat
 lived in New Haven, and he was borr
 in this city In 1s4S, going to Englant
 when ten years old.
 Close in time and sphere to tht
 Elihu Yale bequest was that of BishoI
 Berkeley, who presented the college
 with farm in Newport" After hi
 return to England he became dean O
 Derry and Cloyne, Ireland, but cam
 to America in 1892 to found colleg
 in the Bermudas He failed, as he re
 ceived no assistance from England The books Dean Berkeley presented t Yale were described as "the finest col lection of volumes ever sent to Amer ica." The bishops farm" has becom land worth millions of dollars in New port, and, had not Yale signed ava her rights to the rentals by a Ion term lease, the income from the prop erty would contribute great sum to ward the running expenses of the uni versity.
 With the Yale and Berkeley gift others came from such distlnguishe Englishmen as Sir Isaac Newton, si Richard Steele and Drs. Burne woodward, Haley, Bentley and Ken net
 Till the middle of the nineteenth cer tury no more English names are foun among Yafe's donors, and, if GeorE Peabody is classed an American 1T 2 stead of an Englishman, there is I ' other of note till that of MT. Bloun T The Peabody gift was made in 1S6 I and provided for $15O,Oo0 flor a mus 8 um of natural history especially
 the department of zoology, geology ar a mineralogy." VI The Blount bequest possesses u N charm of mystery and quaintne which has chung to many which ha' q been made to the university M
 Blount was a bachelor and in this T
 spect he makes one of group r several who have left outright the
 fortunes to Yale instead of giving the < to distant relatives, and 1t may be sa ss in this connection that no contest A stituted by relatives to break W ' which gace an estate to Yale has ev
 been successful.
 A A bequest larger than, but in sor
 respects similar to that of MT. Bloul iA was that of William Lampson, of L # roy, N, Y, a bachelor who died in IS # giving Yale about $7OO,ooO A part "a this bequest included Ingham univei # ity, for many years an academy " wide fame and excellent standing 8 the education of young women. IT
 is the only case in her two centur VI of existence in which Yale has rece & ed another university, and there W & discussion relative to using the IT ~ ham University plant as a Yale D E paratory or auxiliary school. Such % disposition proved in no wise practl,