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[[image - in left margin, symbol: cross atop circle]] 2 imposed upon us by N. Y. Fire Department so everybody is busy erecting [[red underline]] safety appliances [[/red underline]] and in meantime work is practically stopped on our experiments. All this brings about a very disheartened attitude. [[image - in left margin, symbol: cross atop circle]] [[left margin]] 5 hr. [[/left margin]] Evening went to University Club and met [[red underline]] Horta [[/red underline]] there. Jan 25. Here all day. Jan 26. At noon at Chemists Club. Meeting of directors of [[red underline]] Am. Institute Chemical Engineers [[/red underline]] Later on at 5 P.M. met a certain Mr. [[red underline]] Zyve [[/red unerline]], a russian introduced by [[red underline]] Levine [[/red underline]]. Young man who was professor at some private school in France. Seems rather superficial [[red underline]] ignorant and vanitous. [[/red underline]] Wants a position for research but has never done any research to amount to anything. Seems blissfully unaware of american conditions of our Universities, our chemists [[end page]] [[start page]] [[image - in left margin: #]] 3 etc. [[red underline]] Talks like an ignorant [[/red underline]] woman would talk who knows nothing of the world outside of [[red underline]] social matters. [[/red underline]] [[image - in left margin: #]] [[left margin]] 1h. [[/left margin]] Evening met [[red underline]] A. H. Hooker [[/red underline]] to talk about plans for work with Malin and electolytic metals and [[red underline]] program of Hooker Co. [[/red underline]] Then meeting trustees of [[red underline]] Chemists Club. Club now has $5000 [[/red underline]] above indebtedness. Some want to invest it in [[red underline]] Mortgage of Club, [[/red underline]] others in enlargement of Club rooms etc. etc. all absurd schemes. [[red underline]] I tell then now is the time to induce all stockholders of the Building Co. to donate their [[/red underline]] stock to Club and this should be done [[black underline]] now [[black underline]] and [[red underline]] not later. The chemical industries are [[/red underline]] prosperous as they never have been in the past and as they never will be in the future and a [[red underline]] crash may come any time [[/red underline]], and