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LXXIV

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

Prof. Geo. E. Woodberry, formerly of Columbia University, gave a series of lectures on literary subjects. Feb. 19—The annual Military Ball. Feb. 20—The Illinois State Academy of Science met in Springfield. A large delegation attended from the University of Illinois. Twenty-five members of the Alumni Association of Color rado, with their wives and friends, held a banquet at the Hotel Boulderado at Boulder, Colorado. Feb. 23—The Mini Club .was organized in Chicago with 290 members. Feb. 25-26—The biennial visit of the legislative committee to the University. The party consisted of one hundred men and twenty-five women. Regimental Review at 10:30 a. m. General University Convocation. March—The Couneil of Administration, appointed two committees on discipline, one for men, of which the Bean of Men is ex efficio chairman, and one for women, of which the Dean of Women is ex officio chairman. March 1—The Phi Beta Kappa Society held its mid-year meeting for the election of members. March 3—Scabbard and Blade, a military social fraternity, was organized. A meeting was held to organize the Students' Union. About five hundred men joined at this time. Marel 1 7—The nine Chinese students in the University of Illinois gave an entertainment in Morrow Hall. March 9—The Board of Trustees appointed Mr. Phineas L. Windsor, Librarian at the University of Texas, to be Librarian and Director of the Library School. Prof. L. P . Breekonridge, presented his resignation as Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Engineering Experiment Station, to accept a professorship at Sheffield Scientific Institute. The Board of Trustees elected officers. William L. Abbott was again chosen President of the Board. March 11—A mine explosion and rescue station was established at the College of Engineering by the United States Geological Survey. March 12—The University of Illinois Association of Southern California held its annual banquet at the Nadroj Cafe in Los Angeles. March 20— Glee and Mandolin Club gave a concert and minstrel show in the Illinois Theater. March 22-27—Prof. E. Bradford Tiehcner of the Cornell University gave a series of lectures on phychological subjects. The Southwestern Alumni Association of the University of Illinois held its annual banquet in Kansas City at the Ormond. Dean William F . M. Goss was a guest of the Association. March 26-—The fifth annual dance of the College of Law in the Armory. March 29-April 3—Dr. George Howard Parker, Professor of. Zoology at Harvard University, gave a series of lectures on zoological subjects. April—The Department of Household Science conducted a series of experiments in its experimental house at the corner of Wright and Daniel streets. April 3—The Filipino students at the University gave an entertainment at Morrow HalL President James was a guest of honor at the sixth annual banquet of the Hlinois University alumni of New York at the Hotel Manhattan. The name of the organization was changed to the University of Illinois Alumni Association of New York. April 7— The Forty-sixth General Assembly of Illinois adopted a resolution approving a policy of paying the salaries necessary in order ' ' to attract to and retain in the service of the University and the State the best available ability of this and other countries." April 19-24—A conference on public health was held at the University under the auspices of the University and the State Board of Health. April 24—Three thousand students under the direction of the Illinois Union gave a " S p r i n g Celebration." April 29—Forty-ninth annual commencement of the School of Pharmacy. May—The members of the newspaper classes conducted the Daily Illini during the first week in May. May 6—First election of officers of the Illinois Union. May 7—National Convention of the Delta Sigma Eho, oratorical fraternity. May 10— The corner-stone of Osborne Hall was laid by Bishop Edward W. Osborne. Annual