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Arts on The Playground as a Social Factor. December 11-16—The 56th annual convention of the Illinois State Horticultural Society was held at the University. December 12—The Choral Society sang " T h e M e s s i a h " at its Christmas concert. December 14-17 John R. Mott conducted a series of evangelistic meetings at the University under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association. A general University convocation was held in the Auditorium on Friday, Dec. 15,-at 4:00 p. m., at which Mr. Mott spoke on Students in Russia. On Saturday afternoon Mr. Mott spoke to the women of the University and the community, on Religion as a Matter of the Will. A series of meetings was held during the s^anie time under the auspices of the Young Women's Christian Association, conducted by Mrs. Harriet E. Monroe of Washington, D. C. December 19—The United Charities Association of Champaign and Urbana was organized. January 6—Eva Mitchell, representing the Illiola Literary Society, won the interliterary society declamatory contest. January 15—The Corn Growers' and Stockmen's Convention held their annual F a r m e r s ' Short Course at the College of Agriculture, continuing for two weeks. Professor Joseph Barrell of Yale University began a series of lectures on geological subjects. January 16—The Council of Administration granted permission to organize " T h e Fourth E s t a t e , " an honorary journalistic fraternity composed of men from the junior and senior classes. January IS—The College of Engineering held an Assembly in the Auditorium at 4:00 p. m. Addresses were given by H. M. Byllesby of Chicago, J . C. Gableman, President of Illinois Society of Engineers and Surveyors, and Dean William F . M. Goss. January 22—Professor J . McKean Cattell of Columbia University addressed the University Senate on Problems of University Administration. January 23—D. H. V. Hess of the Libbey Cut Glass Company of Toledo, Ohio, spoke before the Chemistry Club on the manufacture of glass. February 2—Annual sophomore cotillion. February 6—Post-Exam. Jubilee. The contract for the Ceramics and Mining Engineering Laboratory was let to A. W. Stoolman, for $22,019.12, not including the chimney. February 7—Dr. Guenther Jacoby of Germany was appointed Lecturer in the department of Germanic Languages for the second semester, his general topic being The Philosophy of the German Classical Poets. President Livingston C. Lord of the Eastern Illinois State Normal School, lectured before Kappa Delta Pi, the honorary educational fraternity, on ' ' The Ethics of K i p l i n g . " February 8—W. A. McKnight, Y. M. C. A. Secretary, resigned to accept a similar position in Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic. Dr. J . Howard Mathews of the University of Wisconsin delivered an illustrated lecture on Color Photography and Some of its Commercial Applications, in the Chemistry Lecture Room, under the auspices of Alpha Chi Sigma, the professional chemical fraternity. February 12—Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University, delivered the address at a Convocation in the Auditorium in honor of the birth of Abraham Lincoln at 7:30 p. m. The subject was Lincoln and Government. February 15—Dean David Kinley lectured before the third College of Science Assembly on " S o c i a l i s m . " February 21—A severe blizzard raged all day. Street oar traffic was stopped and trains were so delayed that there was only one mail delivery in the Twin Cities. February 23—Military Ball in the Armory. February 19-23— Dr. Casper Rene Gregory of the University of Leipzig gave a series of five lectures on Five Centuries of Science at Leipzig. February 25—Miss Catherine McCallum McIntyre, for twenty-three years Secretary of the College of Agriculture, died at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Champaign. February 26—Prof. W. L. Johannsen, Professor of Plant Physiology in the University of Copenhagen, delivered a series of lee-