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dings. This is a much larger town than I expected. The [[underline]] University buildings numerous [[/underline]] and [[underline]] resemble a busy bee hive [[/underline]]
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Spent some time with [[underline]] Crane [[/underline]] to see his work for Abstracts. He is lodged in [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] crowded upper rooms given by the University:
[[underline]] Foulke [[/underline]] shows me his work, so does [[underline]] Fance [[/underline]] Then went to listen to a lecture on organic chemistry (hydrocarbons) by [[underline]] McPherson. Excellent. [[/underline]] His [[underline]] class 300 [[/underline]] mostly [[strikethrough]] Ju [[/strikethrough]] freshmen, and medical students. [[underline]] He makes them study subject by themselves beforehand [[/underline]] in their elementary manual. Then as he goes along he
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develops the subject, occasionally asking the questions collectively which they readily answer except now and then. This gives them the feeling as if they were really giving the lecture expressed by [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]] their professor
Afterwards visited the new chemical laboratories just constructed. Sawteeth roof and corresponding top light construction just as some [[strikethrough]] we [[/strikethrough]] one story factory buildings are made. [[underline]] Everything very simple yet very practical [[/underline]] The maximum of usefulness for the minimum of expense. Buildings stand inward and will be hidden by frontal buildings to be constructed later and which will form lecture hall etc. A very clever piece of work