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weather.
May 21. Cold unpleasant weather 
Home all day
May 22 (Washington Birthday) 
Spent day packing trunks and valises for [[red underline]] Miami [[/red underline]] 
Max Toch called this afternoon. [[red underline]] Further bad news from Russia, [[/red underline]] which due to the theorists and talkers, socialists and others seem to become a prey and and [[red underline]] ally of Germany [[/red underline]]
Feb 23. Sent [[red underline]] my income tax [[/red underline]] declaration and check 
Went to N.Y to inquire about trains
Feb 24 (Sunday) [[red underline]] Five more aviators killed while training here. Thomas Ewing calls me [[/red underline]] at home to inquire whether I had lately any news from 
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[[red underline]] George. [[/red underline]] His son is also at Foggia same squadron. [[red underline]] Baskerville [[/red underline]] here this afternoon and for lunch. [[red underline]] His son is in France [[/red underline]] now with American Army, [[red underline]] First lieutenant [[/red underline]] 
Feb 25. Went to [[red underline]] Columbia, [[/red underline]] Conference with [[red underline]] Pegram, Jackson and McKee. [[/red underline]] Pegram says Univeristy wants to curtail expenses to reduce this year's [[red underline]] deficit of $300000 [[/red underline]] Proposes to [[red underline]] abolish lectures on electrochemistry [[/red underline]] as such, which will [[red underline]] save salary of Tucker. [[/red underline]] I believe we would give 50% of present lectures at [[red underline]] Kern's or Walker's [[/red underline]] course in electrometallurgy which now is a [[red underline]] duplicate, [[/red underline]] and add some electrochemical [[red underline]] subjects to general [[/red underline]] course of [[red underline]] applied chemistry [[/red underline]] Afternoon went to see experimental installation said to produce [[red underline]] synthetic ammonia [[/red underline]]