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102 [[symbol in top left margin showing a circle topped by a cross]] [[red underline]] I cannot understand how people can be devoured by the desire of increasing their fortune if they have enough to live decently. [[/red underline]] Spent all afternoon at Brooklyn. [[red underline]] Haydenheim [[/red underline]] is at work in laboratory and [[red underline]] Paulus and Peters [[/red underline]] think he will [[red underline]] be quite useful. [[/red underline]] After some discussion I had no trouble in deciding [[red underline]] Sutherland [[/red underline]] to retract his resignation Whittier explained his new proposition for a site in [[red underline]] Virginia. [[/red underline]] Left there after dark, nearly 7. P.M. [[symbol in left margin showing a circle topped by a cross with annotation]] 5 hs. At University Club took supper with [[red underline]] Pupin, Oscar T. Crosby, Cary Hutchinson, and Mr. Peet. Interesting discussion about the war [[/red underline]] and various political [[end page]] [[start page]] 103 [[symbol in top left margin showing a circle topped by a cross]] and intellectual matters connected therewith. Discussion [[red underline]] so interesting that I [[strikethrough]] go [[/strikethrough]] preferred to lose a reserve seat at Theatre which I had [[/red underline]] ordered. [[left margin]] Jan 25.[[/left margin]] Many [[red underline]] [[strikethrough]] inventations [[/strikethrough]] ^[[invitations,]] [[red underline]] to spend at [[red underline]] public dinners [[/red underline]] etc. Busy morning dictating [[symbol in left margin showing a circle topped by cross with annotation]] 1 h. Spent about one hour with matters of [[red underline]] Royal Baking [[/red underline]] Powder Co. Here all day. [[left margin]] Jan 26.[[/left margin]] [[red underline]] More invitations [[/red underline]] for [[strikethrough]] public din [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] banquets [[/red underline]] and speaking. [[strikethrough]] At noon went [[/strikethrough]] Forenoon went to [[red underline]] Hasslacher [[/red underline]] to discuss bonus and dividends he proposes [[red underline]] 11½% [[/red underline]] to which I agree Evening Celine and I drove to [[red underline]] Elon H. Hooker [[/red underline]] for dinner to meet the Takamines. There [[overwritten]] At [[/overwritten]] were also a cousin of Hooker whose name is Hooter, a lawyer and a Mrs. McFadden who is