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Feb 16 (Sunday) At home all day
Feb 17. Busy day dictating. Townsend here most of day. Discussion of situation of [[red underline]] General Insulate Co. suit. [[/red underline]] Townsend thinks Formica can only be sued in New York on the product claim if we sue its owners.
Feb 18 A busy day here. Met [[red underline]] Pupin [[/red underline]] for supper at University Club and then went together to meeting of teaching staff to discuss problem of [[red underline]] Americanization [[/red underline]] and how [[red underline]] Columbia [[/red underline]] could best be useful. The former [[red underline]] "Deutsches Haus" [[/red underline]] of Columbia which was installed as a center of German "Kultur" has been abolished, refurnished [[?]] and books removed and this is now the Columbia [[red underline]] Haus of Americanization: Giddings made in addition, rather
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heavy, pessimistic and [[boresome?]]. Pupin put life in the subject by discussing it.
Feb 19. Here all day dictating plan of attack and argument for [[red underline]] Insulate infringement [[/red underline]] suit 
Feb 20. [[red underline]] Nina [[/red underline]] has a party here at lunch so I went to [[red underline]] Columbia [[/red underline]] for lunch. [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] In our laboratory there saw some [[red underline]] dried meat [[/red underline]] and dried oysters made in vacuum drier so as to simplify transportation and preservation problem. No antiseptic used. Subject looks quite promising Evening went to University Club, there before a bottle of 1870 Richebourg [[red underline]] Dr. de Vecchi [[/red underline]] told us of his campaign in 1870 with the french army ambulance at Sedan, when he was a volunteer surgeon. He also told us how he was in