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of [[red underline]] Chemical Engineering [[/red underline]] Good attendance  Many of the Professors there.  Afternoon took them to Claremont for tea then to their hotel
April 26. Went to [[red underline]] City College [[/red underline]] to meet [[red underline]] De Jace and Sand [[/red underline]].  latter made speech in Chapel on [[?]] of Liberty Day set apart for furthering Third Liberty Loan -- General Holiday.  A [[red underline]] french officer [[/red underline]] with an excellent voice [[red underline]] sang some war songs.  Colonel Dutoit of the French Army a grizzled veteran made a stirring address. [[/red underline]]  More than once it was difficult to control my emotions and I saw others laboring under the same emotions.  Religious attention [[red underline]] Everything very impressive specially
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for our Belgian visitors. [/red underline]] Took  them to [[red underline]] University Club [[/red underline]] for lunch.  There they saw the [[red underline]] Liberty parade which lasted for 3 1/2 hours. [[/red underline]] A very impressive sight received by everybody with utmost correctness.  Many a tear blinking in the eyes of men at the Club when they saw mothers, sisters and sweethearts passing in ever succeeding rows, old and young all wearing service flags on which many had several stars. [[red underline]] There is no doubt that the grim determination of breaking the criminality of Germany is [[strikethrough]] becoming [[/strikethrough]] gaining more and more momentum. [[/red underline]]
Similar parades in all cities of the Union  Evening went to [[red underline]] Washington [[/red underline]]
April 27. Arrived [[red underline]] Washington.  Went to Naval Board early [[/red underline]]. Had occasion to urge Woodward