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pMay 17—Maypole Dance on Illinois Field. May 18-20—The Nineteenth Illinois Interscholastic meet. May 20—Interscholastic circus on Illinois Field. June—The graduating class presented to the University as a class memorial two trophy eases to be placed in the entrance of the Men's Gymnasium. June 10—The ,47th General Assembly of Illinois appropriated to the University $3,489,300 for opera t i n g expenses, buildings, etc., and also .$30,000 for the support of the School of Ceramics. The 47th General Assembly passed a bill providing for a mill tax for the pupport of the University beginning with the year 1912; also an act putting employees of the University of Illinois under civil service regulations. J u n e 11—The Eight Reverend Edward W. Osborne, Bishop of Springfield, delivered the baccalaureate address. Iffis text was " T h e y watched h i m . " June 12—Class Day. Annual address before the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi societies was delivered by John M. Coulter, Professor (of Botany at the University of Chicago on Contributions of Germany to Education. Senior ball in the Armory. June 13—Alumni Day. A bronze memorial tablet to the ,late Professor Arthur W. Palmer was unveiled. The Trustees appointed Dr. J e a n Beck of Vienna, Austria, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages. The Trustees authorized Dean Thomas A. Clark to publish ' ' Pacts for F r e s h m e n , " to be presented to each freshman upon his admission to the University. Mr. Donald Graham, 1907, who won in the competition for the Plym fellowship in architecture, was appointed to 'the fellowship for the year 1911-12. June 14—The Commencement address was given by President James. His address was an appeal to the graduates to make careers object lessons in the defense of academic education. The honorary degree of Doctor [of Laws was conferred on William E. Curtis; the degree of Doctor of Engineering on Ralph Modjeski. June 27—The beginning of the six weeks' course given in the Bummer Session in the Library School. Summer Session opened with an enrollment of nearly seven hundred. July 11—Miss Isabel Bevier delivered the president's address at the opening session of the American Home Economies Association, meeting with the National Education Association at San Francisco. Her topic was " T h e Home Economics Movement." June 14—The Trustees voted to close the California avenue and John street entrances to the campus; to close Burrill avenue south of the Auditorium, and to post notices barring automobiles and motorcycles, at the entrance of Burrill avenue on the south side of Green street. August 27—Alfred Bayliss, from 1899 to 1907 ex officio a member of the Board of Trustees, died at his home at Woodbine, Ohio. 1911-12 September—The roadway which formerly curved about the northeast corner of University Hall, changed during the summer to run directly east to the Law Building, and thence south. A broad cement walk built in front of University Hall, directly east to the Law Building. The opening of Lincoln Hall and the new Power Plant necessitated a readjustment of class rooms and offices in University Hall and in the Electrical Engineering Building. The department of Classics, and the graduate and upper class work in Modern Languages, English, and the Social Sciences, formerly located in University Hall, were removed to Lincoln Hall, as were also Seminar libraries and many books of value to these departments. September 29—Professor Eugene Meyer of Germany, head of the Reich-Anstaldt, or Calibration Laboratory, and Professor of Engineering at Charlottcnburg University, on a tour of investigation of foreign engineering institutions, made a visit to the University. October 6—The Marquis of Queensbcrry, then on the sporting staff of the Chicago Tribune, visited the University for the Illinois-Millikin football game on