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LXVIII

U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S

by Lorado Taft on Old Time Ideas. June 12—Commencement address by Hon. James Bryce on History and Good Citizenship. Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws conferred on Mr. Bryce. June 17—Summer Session opened. June 28—Dr. Ernest E. Dewsnup of the University of Chicago appointed Professor of Bailway Administration. Professor W. F . M. Goss appointed Dean of the College of Engineering. June 3—Professor Edwin G. Dexter resigned as Professor of Education and Director of School of Education, to become Commissioner of Education in Porto Eico. Board of Trustees voted to give him leave of absence from the University to accept this position. July 20—Dr. Edward C. Hayes of Miami University, appointed Professor of Sociology. 1907-8 Sept.—Name of the Mini changed to The Daily Illini, and the size of the paper changed from a four-page, five-column paper to an eight-page, four-column. Sept. 10 —The Board of Trustees made an appropriation for the purchase of the Dittenberger Library. Professor Floyd E. Watson appointed Assistant to the Dean of the College of Engineering. Sept. 25—First University Convocation in the new Auditorium. Newly elected members of the faculty, Ernest E . Dewsnup, Barric Gilbert, Chester N. Greenough, Edward C. Hayes, and William A. Noyes, introduced. Oct. 1—Ground was broken for the erection of the building for the University Club. Oct. 11—Death of Trustee Alexander McLean. Oct. 15—Inaugural exercises in honor of Professor William A. Noyes, recently chosen head of the Department of Chemistry. Oct. 16—Lecture before the members of the Library School by Dr. Arthur Bostwick. Oct. 19—Board of Trustees voted an appropriation for the purchase of band instruments. Board of Trustees adopted Certain rules regulating the attendance upon University classes by persons not regularly registered as students. Oct. 20—First Assembly of the Graduate School. Oct. 24-26—Prof. William Bateson of Cambridge, England, gave course of three lectures on Heredity. Oct. 30—Engineering College gave a reception to Dean W. F . M. Goss on his arrival at the University. Nov. 4-5—New Auditorium dedicated with a series of concerts and other exercises in honor of Edward McDowell. Addresses by the Architect of the building, Clarence H. Blackall, and Professor Newton A. Wells, the designer of the memorial tablet, and by President Edmund J . James. The chief address of the occasion was delivered by Hamlin Garland, who was an intimate friend of McDowell. Nov. 1 1 — Illinois Gamma chapter of Phi Beta Kappa installed by Professor E . A. Grosvenor of Amherst. No. 20—Students of Phillips Exeter and Phillips Andover Academies organized a Phillips Club. Nov. 21-23—High School Conference. Nov. 22—Concert of the Illinois Glee and Mandolin Club in Springfield. Nov. 27—Lecture on Alternating Current Bailway Motors by Dr. Charles P . Steinmetz of Union College. Dec. 3—Annual exercises in commemoration of the admission of Illinois into the Union. Speaker, President Harry P r a t t Judson of Chicago University. Dec. 6— President and Mrs James gave a reception in the parlors of the Woman's Building, in honor of Hon. and Mrs. Samuel A. Bullard, and the members of the faculty. Dec. 7-—State Academy of Sciences organized at Decatur, Illinois. Forty-four of the eighty people present were from the University of Illinois. Dec. 9-13—Series of lectures on the genera] subject of The Eelation of Types of Philosophy to Types of Educational Theory by Professor John Dewey of Columbia University. Dec. 10—The Board of Trustees decided that the Senate Eoom in the Library should house the Dittenberger Library; that the offices of the President, the Eegistrar, the Comptroller,