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meeting finished shortly after ten. Walked with Pefford, Evans, Rebman and two other gentlemen to Lotus Club where we had some further scientific talk between a glass of beer and a sandwhich.  Took 12 [[underlined]] 30 [[/underlined]] train with Evans and Rebman.
[[margin]] Nov. 7. [[/margin]] dictated letters. to several friends hoping to raise small loan of $2000 for American Chemical Society.  I subscribed $333. and Loeb and Toch did the same.
In the evening meeting of the Anvil Club. Kelman entertained at Mrs Wadsworths
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house. Subject. Loomis on [[underlined]] Aerial Navigation [[/underlined]]. An excellent paper very well presented and in an optimisitic strain.
During the discussion it was [[underlined]] interesting to note how opinion was exactly divided as between people who had a scientific and those who had merely a classical [[/underlined]] education.
[[margin]] [[Ten Eyok?]] etc. Hitchcock (lawyers. etc. against) also the clergymen [[/margin]]
The latter all run very conservative, [[underlined]] pessimistic [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] could not grasp the possibilities. [[/underlined]]
On the other hand Cox, Loomis, Kelman, Jenks, Williams, Hagerman and myself looked at the matter as implying great possibilities