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of Harvard here too for dinner and supper.
[[strikethrough]] Wel [[/strikethrough]] While I tried to drive him to station, gear of timer stripped and while I waited for ^[[my]] other car to pull us, it skidded and bent front axle. Third car is frozen so [[red underlined]] all cars [[strikethrough]] ad [[/strikethrough]] are disabled and I feel rather disgusted [[/red underlined]]
[[black underlined]] 1917 [[/black underlined]]
January 1. [[red underlined]] Vander Stricht [[/red underlined]] still here. Professor Charles [[red underlined]] Herty [[/red underlined]] too for dinner.
Went with them to New York towards evening and accompanied [[red underlined]] V.d. Stricht to his train [[/red underlined]] for Cleveland.
Afterwards met [[red underlined]] Mali [[/red underlined]] at University Club. [[strikethrough]] tells me [[/strikethrough]]
Jan. 2. [[red underlined]] George [[/red underlined]] left this mor-
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ning for Cornell, seems better and cheerful. I was busy all day with belated correspondence. Spent considerable thought on proposed purchase of [[red underlined]] Standard Aniline Co by Hooker Co, and after three days, came always back to my original conclusion not to consolidate because Hooker [[/red underlined]] and the other men will undoubdetly not pull together and it will be a repetition of quarrels as during the ^[[John]] Bresh period.
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[[black underlined]] Jan. 3 [[black underlined]]
Meeting of Directors of General Bakelite Co at new offices. Rector street N° 2. [[red underlined]] Mr Hasslacher there. His leg worse than ever. Hasslacher and Mausolf resigned to let Hamman and Schleussner [[/red underlined]] take their place.
Cable from [[red underlined]] England [[/red underlined]] an- 

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