Lehigh University, founded by Asa Packer, of Pennsylvania, has by the recent death of Mr. R. A. Packer received one-half of that gentlemen's fortune, which is estimated to be over $1,000,000. The university was founded originally with the idea of giving an excellent technical education to many ambitions young men who had not the means to pursue a course at a regular college. There is therefore no tuition expense, and admission is granted to a limited number of students from Pennsylvania who have had a high school education. The original bequest was $500,000, which was largely increased at the death of Mr. Packer, and is now further increased by his son's will. The course at Lehigh is technical, mainly engineering, civil, mining and electrical, and is so rigorous that heretofore but few men have graduated in each year. The university is responsible for each graduate until he obtains a situation elsewhere; and graduates usually obtain excellent positions without difficulty shortly after receiving their diplomas. The university is only about ten years old and its history may not be very well known to most college students.