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[[red underline]] Mobilization order for National Guard has [[/red underline]] been published. Everywhere militiamen in uniform.  Troops are leaving for [[red underline]] Mexican boarder. Boston begins to look like Montreal did when I was there last summer. [[/red underline]] Many [[red underline]] soldier [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] uniform [[/strikethrough]] in field [[red underline]] uniform [[/red underline]] everywhere. [[red underline]] Too bad that it should be just the better class of men [[/red underline]] who have to go. This country is committing the [[red underline]] same blunders as England by sending [[/red underline]] to the front, [[red underline]] engineers and skilled [[/red underline]] men who are more needed at home for our industries, [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] so needed in [[overwritten]] p [[/overwritten]] emergencies of war.
[[left margin]] June 22. [[/left margin]] The rain of last night has stopped. Bright sunny weather went to join [[red underline]] Lamb at his laboratory, [[/red underline]] then [[strikethrough]] went [[/strikethrough]] ^[[walked]] together

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to [[red underline]] Soldiers Field [[/red underline]] where commencement is held in [[strikethrough]] Sta [[/strikethrough]] open air Stadium for first time. [[red underline]] Lamb [[/red underline]] after procession took his gown under arm and joined me on seat in [[red underline]] Stadium. [[/red underline]] Very impressive ceremony - speeches, one latin salutation by a [[strikethrough]] gro [[/strikethrough]] senior. [[red underline]] Many students in field uniform [[/red underline]] under their gowns all part of mobilization of militia. Took [[red underline]] Lamb [[/red underline]] to Thorndyke ^[[Hotel]] for lunch. He is a very [[red underline]] likeable man and has made [[/red underline]] my stay here very agreeable. [[red underline]] Boston [[/red underline]] in some parts is undoubtedly a very [[red underline]] agreeable [[/red underline]] city in other parts looks too much like the [[red underline]] noisy part of Chicago. [[/red underline]] But in general tendencies of people show [[red underline]] somewhat better than [[/red underline]] New York or Chicago or other purely commercial cities. When I arrived at my hotel