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May Festival. Monday evening the Choral and Orchestral Societies of the University gave Gounod's " M o r s et V i t a . " On Tuesday afternoon the New York Symphony ^Orchestra, conducted by Mr. Walter Damroseh gave a Tehaikowski and Wagner prog r a m . On Wednesday evening the University Chorus, the New York Symphony Orchestra, and soloists gave a program celebrating the Mendelssohn centenary. May 17—Mr. Helge A. Haugan, treasurer of the University of Illinois, died at his home [is Chicago. The University of Illinois Association was organized in Portland, Orejgon. May 19—Company C of the second battalion won the University Competitive ^Drill. The New University Medal for individual work was given to G. K. Tracy, a -sophomore in agriculture. The Hazelton prize was awarded to F . D. Dunn, a freshman in engineering. May 21—Mask and Bauble presented in the Auditorium, ' ' Two S t r i k e s , " written by Thacher H. Guild. May 29—Annual " P e a n u t B a n q u e t " a t the College of Agriculture. June—The University purchased the entire library of 5,200 volumes of the late Professor Moritz Heyne, of the University of Gottingen, on German literature and philology. June 4—The Trustees adopted a minute expressing appreciation of the services of Professor Lester Paige Breekenridge. June 5—Illinois won the Conference Athletic Meet a t Marshall Field. Twenty-seventh annual commencement of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois. June 8—The legislature passed an act authorizing and directing the establishment of a department of mining engineering a t the University of Illinois, for which it made an appropriation of $7,500 per annum. June 9-14:—The General Assembly voted to the University a total of $2,288,500 for the bienninm, including building appropriation, agricultural appropriation, mining engineering bill, and general appropriation bill, $250,000 of this amount being for a new University Hall. June 13—Baccalaureate address by President Edmund J . James, who spoke on Love of Our Fellowman as the greatest Force in Advancing Society to an Ideal State. J u n e 14—Class day exereises, Senior Ball. June 15—Alumni Day. President's Reception in the Auditorium. Alumni Association adopted a resolution requesting the Board of Trustees in planning for the future of the University, to preserve old University Hall. June 16—Thirty-eighth annual commencement address by Baron Kogoro Takahira, His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Ambassador to the United States, on Influence of American Education in the F a r East. June 21—Summer session began. Illinois members of the Western Society of Engineers gave a dinner a t the City Club of Chicago in honor of Prof. Lester Paige Breekenridge. June 24—Dr. Henry B . Ward of the University of Nebraska was appointed Professor of Zoology at the University of Illinois. Mr. Henry Alexander Haugan, Vice President of the State Bank of Chicago, was elected Treasurer of the University of Illinois. The Trustees approved the granting of the degree of J . D. (Juris Doetor),. Doctor of Law. July 5-6—The Coburn Players presented Percy Maekaye 's ' ' Canterbury P i l g r i m s ' ' and Shakespeare's " A s You Like I t " and " T w e l f t h N i g h t , " under the auspices of the Summer Session. July 5—Mrs. Carrie T. Alexander, member of the Board of Trustees, was married to Dr. William Bahrenburg of Belleville. July 14—Dean William F . M. Goss was appointed Director of the Engineering Experiment Station in place of Professor Lester P . Breekenridge, resigned. July 14—The Trustees approved the location of the New University Hall south of the Woman's Building. July 21—The Trustees decided to charge a fee of $24 a year to students engaged in graduate study in absentia. Previously no fees were charged them. July 2 1 — The Trustees authorized publication of the results of the investigations of the Nutrition Commission.