The Winning Of Fame

A man may win widespread ana loig-enduring íame by founding an institution oí learning which shall bear his name, says New York Sun. The cry "Cornell" was heard over England last week- it had long been familiar in the United States; and the years have added lustre to the memory of Ezra Cornell, who founded the university at Ithaca, N. Y., which was chartered thirty years ago, and opened for students in 1868, during the Presidency of Andrew Johnson. The name of the ïlev. John Harvard of England and ilassacausetts has been commemorated for more than two centuries and a half .as the founder of Harvard college, now known as Harvard university. The name of Elihu Yale, Dorn m Haven, Conn., died in England, is emi&aJmed in Yale university, formerly laiown as Yale college, whlch enjoyed nis benefactions in the first quarter ot the eighteenth century. In California tbere is Stanford university, named afct a son of the late Leiand Stanford; her - -e Johns Hopkins university a Baltimore; thero is Vanderbilt uniorsity in Tennessee; there is Vassar rolleKe near Poughkeepsie called after Matthew Vassar, and there are many bUmst universities or colleges called aftsr fhpir fnnnders or benefactors. The Rev Dr. Marcus Whitman, a pioneer in the farthest west, is commemorated in Whitman college, soon to be university, in the state of Washington. If one cannot found a university or a college, a seminary may serve to perpetúate his name. At East Hampton, in Massachusetts, there is Williston seminary. ïiamed after their founders. It may be ton; and there are in the country hunflreds of other institutions of the kind named after their founders. It may be inferred from the exaraples liere that the man who desires to perpetúate his memory would do well to establish a ■university, college, seminary, or other institution of learning, and give it hl name.