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68 the [[red underline]] Cornell Song: [[/red underline]] "Cayuga Lake," which pleased me immensely. This was an unusually pleasant day for me ending with this [[red underline]] most enjoyable evening. [[/red underline]] I was shocked to find on looking at my watch that hours had sped by until it was 3 A.M when I left. June 21. [[red underline]] A. A. Noyes [[/red underline]] came to hotel and took me to the [[red underline]] new Institute Technology buildings, [[/red underline]] then we had a conference on subject of [[red underline]] Nitrate Committee [[/red underline]] and [[strikethrough]] approved [[/strikethrough]] discussed [[motion?]] to request [[red underline]] Washburn [[/red underline]] to give us further data. I went alone to [[red underline]] St. Botolph [[/red underline]] Club to meet Mr. Robert Fulton [[red underline]] Blake [[/red underline]] who had invited me with others to meet [[end page]] [[start page]] 69 [[red underline]] Professor [[strikethrough]] Chittenden [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Fessenden]], who is well known as an electrician [[strikethrough]] Chittenden [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Fessenden]] is a healthy big strapping chap, about 40 years old I should say with a blonde beard and ditto hair. We spoke of [[red underline]] hydroelectric power. He claims he can develop [[strikethrough]] hors [[/strikethrough]] waterpower much cheaper [[/red underline]] than any existing method and can reduce cost about 75% of what it is now. Speaks of developing [[red underline]] horsepower [[/red underline]] at [[strikethrough]] 2 1/ [[/strikethrough]] $2.50 a horsepower year delivered at switch board. Sounds to good to be true, but he seems convinced of the practicability of his scheme. Told him this was the first bit of optimism I had heard since I had started investigating hydroelectric conditions Then ^[[with]] [[red underline]] Noyes, Kohler and Lamb [[/red underline]] went to baseball game. Harvard beat Yale 5 to 1.
