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116 for [[underline]] commencement. First time to be held in open air. [[/underline]] Threatening skies and cool - usually very warm. After procession was over and about to take seats the imposing assembly spread over 116 sh. & steps of library [[underline]] had to run away before a shower [[/underline]] and whole ceremony stopped. [[underline]] Gowns and caps all wet. [[/underline]] Drove to University Club with [[underline]] Jackson [[/underline]] and [[underline]] Hendrick. [[/underline]] Then at 10 P.M. went to sleeping car for train for [[underline]] Montreal meeting [[/underline]] of [[underline]] Canadian Chemists [[/underline]] [[underline]] June 2. [[/underline]] Arrived [[underline]] Ritz Carlton [[/underline]] hotel 8:50 Daylight Saving time. Pleasant room. [[underline]] Redman & Mills at Chemical exhibit in Windsor Hotel. [[/underline]] Laminated panels of Mills look very good. Then luncheon sat at [[underline]] speakers table.[[/underline]] Listened to some good papers [[end page]] [[start page]] 117 on Cellulose lacquers. Evening [[underline]] banquet [[/underline]] - made speech, so did [[underline]] Redman. [[/underline]] He did very well. I spoke about necessity of chemical [[underline]] enterprises being directed by men [[/underline]] who understood [[underline]] technical problems [[/underline]] not merely by bankers or hard boiled businessmen. also [[underline]] about chemical engineering education. The chemical engineer had to be first of all a chemist; [[/underline]] otherwise he risks of being merely a [[underline]] pretentious pipe fitter. [[/underline]] [[underline]] June 3. [[/underline]] Long talk with Redman over question of Bakelite Corporation - lunch together. Evening supper with Dr. [[underline]] Judson Daland [[/underline]] [[underline]] June 4. Left Montreal [[/underline]] last night, arrive New York 8:30 Daylight Saving time. Easy trip. At office all day. Evening [[underline]] addressed Chemical Teachers Association [[/underline]] - at [[strikethrough]] N.Y. [[/strikethrough]] College of City of New York. Subject: [[underline]] Misdirected Efforts in [[strikethrough]] teaching [[/strikethrough]] Chemistry Teaching. [[/underline]]