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T H E ADAH PATTON MEMORIAL The University m Illinois Library Club is establishing a Memorial ' honor of Adah Patton, long a member of the Catalog Department of\h University Library, and head of the Department for fourth n years. Th Memorial is to take the form of a fund of one thousand dollars and ov the income from which is to be expended for publishing in the general fieto of Library Science, especially in cataloging, classification, and bibliography As soon as the principal reaches the desired amount the fund will I* administered by the Adah Patton Memorial Board, consisting of: CI) th director of the University library, (2) the catalog librarian of the Univer sity library, (3) a member of the Library School faculty. (A) ;, m p n . u J the Library staff, (5) a librarian, not necessarily a member of the University Library staff. This Board shall determine the conditions under which the income shall be expended and in general carry out the purpose of the Memorial. At present contributions to the Fund are being handled by a standing Committee of the Club, of which Miss Eleanor Robertson is Chairman. This Committee has already received over five hundred dollars in cash and pledges from the University Library staff and the Library School faculty. While the alumni body as a whole will not be approached for the Memorial, it is felt that those former students who knew Miss Patton, and especially those who had the privilege of working with her, will wish to be given an opportunity of participating in this Memorial.

A TRAVELER'S LOG My record of last March seems to have left me rather abruptly in Cook's office in Jerusalem, weighted down (literally) with the burden of carrying five kinds of foreign money! On the following morning, my dragoman (not "dray man" as my last letter misquoted me—my luggage didn't quite run to a dray!) appeared, and soon after eight we left for northern Palestine. This guide, by name Dmitri Solomon, proved to speak fair English and took excellent care of me for the next five days. After getting my passport properly checked up to see that all was in order, we left Jerusalem by the Jaffa Gate on the south wall, drove along the eastern wall, past the Damascus Gate at the north, which automobiles do not use as C U 1C M a rule, since the other pavement is far better, and—we V were off for T v e n Tiberias anrl 1 .' "ce r\ w p r p nf r «" « l b7 Ta s•*•* nd ii1timr»+^i.- tne otner Ao . 7 ««vi ultimately uamascus. A«J?A j ™—«-* l "himately Damascus.

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C r u a f ccastles standing out boldlv against the skv f ™ , ^T T T -nd^d^th^malf^ilbgeV^th ^ Crusaders of rn This proved to be the famous Pbin oflsdraelor^calledTin W ^ * iH-top. J e e l ; and 1 iteslo t h o s ^ o ? tf 0r, e o n th is **£» the dS!i of 'the trlba" w ^ f , ? ™ "I s r a e 4 . I Iain l nation, F S L ° i . i ! f t , P has been the campingg? 0 u n f l ' J * its fields. ~ven as rate as the World War, a retreating Turkish army fled^cro"! It was long past noon, and I was beginning to feel the n i n M t .h u n e r having breakfasted at seven; but at last Solomon pointed o u t V intui i « . * • town of

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