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[[red underline]] [[Valessi?]] and Lieutͭ Polignon all of french signal service [[/red underline]] Invited them for supper with Commander [[red underline]] Cyrus R. Miller [[/red underline]] U.S.N. then showed them Chemists Club about 11 P.M and drove them to the 
VanderBilt Hotel. To morrow they go to Schenectady.  
June 17 (Sunday). [[red underline]] George [[/red underline]] here from Cornell with all his belongings.  [[red underline]] Looks very much as if he never were to resume his studies there. Has well passed his exams.  What a change in all these plans since a few weeks! - What next? [[/red underline]]
Intends to pass his exam next month for provisional [[red underline]] second lieutenant in Coast Artillery [[/red underline]].  Evening went to University Club there met Prof. Crocker and [[red underline]] Pupin. Discussed limitations and [[strikethrough]] li [[/strikethrough]] restricted views of [[/red underline]] 
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pure scientists and how in applied Science one has to be more thorough and careful in the details of a problem. Pupin [[/red underline]] tells me that [[red underline]] Michelson [[/red underline]] who presided last week's joint meeting after the meeting confessed to [[red underline]] Pupin that he did not [[/red underline]] know what was an [[red underline]]
"amplificator" nor an "oscillator" [[/red underline]] altho the whole joint meeting [[red underline]] of the French and British Commission was devoted on wireless telegraphy and telephony. Pupin had [[/red underline]] to explain him everything.  In other words [[red underline]] Michelson in his isolated laboratory and professor's occupations had failed to follow some of the most important technical advances in this important branch of physics. [[/red underline]]
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June 18.  This Spring has thus far been unusually cool. Except one or two days when it was