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

and ninety-seven presidents of normal schools, protesting against the bill permitting George Washington University to receive $45,000 a year from the government as an agricultural college, under the provision of the Morrill act of July 2, 1862. Feb. 25— Annual Military Ball. March 8—William L. Abbott was re-elected President of the Board of Trustees for- the ensuing year. March 8-9—Second annual meeting of the Illinois Water Supply Association was held at the University. March 9-15—Eduard Meyer, Professor of Ancient History of the University of Berlin," and 1909 Exchange Professor at Harvard University, gave a series of six lectures at the University of Illinois on Political Institutions and Ideals of Ancient Greece. March 11—The University of Illinois Alumni Association of Southern California held its annual banquet on the 11th floor of the Wright & Callender Building, Long Beach, California. March 12— Illinois won the debates with Ohio and Indiana Universities. March 15—The third floor of the Cosmopolitan Club House was badly damaged by fire. March 21-23— President Charles Blanehard of Wheaton College delivered three lectures before the Sehool of Education. March 24-25—Deans of the colleges of liberal arts of a dozen middle western state universities held their 'second annual meeting at the University of Illinois. April—A petition was presented to the Council of Administration by Shield and Trident and Phenix, honorary senior societies, asking that official recognition be • given to the movement to establish an annual Illinois Home Coming. President James resigned as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the State Historical Library, to which position he had been appointed in 1897 by Governor Tanner, reappointed by Governor Richard Yates, and continued by Governor Charles S. Deneen. Governor Deneen appointed Dean Evarts B. Greene chairman of the Board in place of President James. April 2—The annual dinner and business meeting of the University of Illinois Club of Washington, D. C , was held at the Teacup Inn. April 3—Miss Irma Voigt was chosen to represent the University of Illinois a t the annual Northern Oratorical contest to be held in Minneapolis in May. April 4—Meeting of the University Senate. April 8—Professor Edward Lee Thorndike of Columbia University delivered a series of five .lectures under the joint auspices of the College of Literature and Arts and the School of Education on Individual Differences and Their Causes. April 12—The last of the y e a r ' s series of Assemblies given by the College of Literature and Arts was held in the chapel. An address was given by Mr. George F . Schwartz of the Music School. The Trustees granted the request of Professor Nathan Clifford Bicker to be relieved of the administration duties connected with the headship of the Department of Architecture. Professor ChesteT N. Greenough, head of the Department of English, resigned to accept a call to Harvard University. April 14—Mr. Emory Cobb, for twenty years a member of the University Board of Trustees, died at his home in Kankakee. April 19—The students of the Classical Department presented Aristophanes' " C l o u d s " in the Auditorium. April 25—Edwin E. Slosson, literary editor of The Independent, began a series of lectures on journalism before the newspaper students. He also delivered a course of lectures before tho School of Education on the Tendency and Needs of University Education. April 27—The Varsity Soccer team played its first game in competition with Christian Brothers College on Illinois Field. Illinois was defeated by a score of 9 to 2. April 29—George Mygatt Fisk, Professor of Commerce at the University of Illinois from 1902-8, met death by drowning at Madison, Wisconsin. May—Professor James W. Garner was made editor of the new publication, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. May 2-4—Annual May Festival. Madame