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with the other men of their class and so as to prevent that they should too much group in cliques or undemocratic sets.
[[red underline]] Kohler [[/red underline]] took us to [[red underline]] St Botolph Club [[/red underline]] for supper where we met a [[red underline]] Dr. Warren, [[/red underline]] a gentleman in the seventies very cheerful and full of information, who after studying in the U.S went to [[red underline]] Bonn [[/red underline]] and knew [[red underline]] Kekulé, [[/red underline]] and is now chief of [[red underline]] Board of Health [[/red underline]] in Pennsylvania. While we were in dining room we noticed a round table of men of class of [[red underline]] '86. [[/red underline]] singing student songs and celebrating their class reunion, one of the liveliest, 
^[[was]] called [[red underline]] bishop [[/red underline]] by the others. All intelligent looking men and splendid company
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all boys again. Same boyish [[red underline]] spirit seems to return as soon as environment and conditions are the same.- [[/red underline]] What makes us older is new duties and new environment more than physical results of age. After they started singing the "Marseillaise" I joined in and was asked to sing it alone again and [[strikethrough]] after [[/strikethrough]] were asked to join them all. They [[red underline]] adopted us in class of '86 as they said. [[/red underline]] After I told I graduated in 1884 another gentleman, a Massachusetts Judge, jumped up and cried I [[red underline]] join you I am of 1884. [[/red underline]] So 1884 had an[[strikethrough]] clas [[/strikethrough]] improvised class reunion. Then after it was found that I had a son in [[red underline]] Cornell, [[/red underline]] they all stood up and gave the  [[red underline]] Harvard cheer [[/red underline]] with three [[red underline]] "Cornell"s [[/red underline]] at the end. Then they all sang

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Reinhard Kekul�von Stradonitz (1839-1911) was a German archeologist.