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good speech. Had to run away before meeting began to participate at [[red underline]] Faculty Meeting in Columbia. [[/red underline]] Then went to University Club where I had invited Major [[red underline]] Munroe Neville [[/red underline]] Hopkins for supper with me. Pleasant talk.
March 1. 1919. Hurried dictation here then to University Club for lunch to hear [[red underline]] Galsworthy [[/red underline]] speak to us. Excellent address. About 600 members present. He comes out strongly in favor of [[red underline]] League of Nations [[/red underline]] to the disgust of some of our members who are dyed-in-the-wool petty partisans and hate [[red underline]] Wilson [[/red underline]] for no other reason than that they are too [[?]] narrow and dried up to understand him. Remained for supper
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At University Club and returned with 9:30P.M train
March 2 (1919 [[underline]] Sunday.) [[/underline]] Beautiful day here. But spent most of it getting thru the endless intricacies of preparing my [[red underline]] income tax returns. [[/red underline]]
March 3. A busy day getting thru all my dictating. At 5:30 P.M met [[red underline]] James Colgate [[/red underline]] and other 4 members of nominating committee of the [[red underline]] University Club [[/red underline]] Up till now I do not know who [[strikethrough]] and why [[/strikethrough]] put me on this committee and why I notice that [[red underline]] most of men are Wall street men. [[/red underline]] Managed to have [[red underline]] Hobart H. Porter [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] Hutchins and Scribner [[/red underline]] nominated.
March 4. A very busy day. Went to Yonkers City Hall to [[strikethrough]] kno [[/strikethrough]] try to get some information about [[strikethrough]] tax report [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] federal tax report [[/red underline]]