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[[underlined]] George's [[/underlined]] school complaining that he does not take enough interest nor pains in some of his branches. [[underlined]] Arithmetics and grammar are his weak points [[/underlined]] in which he does not seem sufficiently interested. I had a friendly fatherly talk with him in my study room and hope this may do some good. If he only could feel some of the responsibilities and the ambition to better himself as I did when I was his age, a poor boy of very poor parents who felt that everything had to be done by himself
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Maybe he will some day be stimulated by higher ambitions which will be a spur to his zeal.
[[margin]] [[underlined]] George [[/underlined]] [[/margin]]
[[underlined]] I know that George is a profound thinker for his years and that he does not shirk work provided his work interests him and there will be plentiful of interesting work for him in this world as soon as he grows up to the age where he feels himself! [[/underlined]]
[[margin]] Dec. 8 [[/margin]] [[strikethrough]] & 9 [[/strikethrough]] Laboratory work, letters & supervising construction of annex to lab.
[[margin]] Dec. 9. [[/margin]] Ditto on afternoon went to N.Y. to order suit of clothes & coat. Thence Annual meeting [[strikethrough]] At lab [[/strikethrough]] Chemists Club and Beefsteak dinner. My nominees: 
[[strikethrough]] Dec. 10 Ditto [[/strikethrough]] Morris Loeb Pres. F.F. 
[[strikethrough]] Dec. 11 Ditto [[/strikethrough]] Stone & A. D. Little V.P. Parker Mc Theney [[strikethrough]] Treas. [[/strikethrough]] Sec'y and Evans Treasurer were elected.
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