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[[underline]] Oct. 11. [[/underline]] Today is "Open house for the school of Engineering of Columbia. - Long talk with Dean Barker about Chemical engineering department and discussing several problems. Dr. Thomas Hilton Chilton [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] ^[[directing]] chemical engineer of Dupont will have Chandler Medal this year. Also long talk with Prof Urey. ^[[x]] 
[[vertical note in left margin]] x about affairs of our faculty. [[/vertical note in left margin]] [[underline]] Oct 12. [[/underline]] News that Dickie and husband will probably arrive for SS. Manhattan which has arrived at Southampton [[underline]] Oct 13 [[/underline]] Afternoon at 
4 P.M. went to annual exhibition of [[underline]] General Motors [[/underline]] met Kettering cheerful and active as ever. Had a long chat with him also many other friends. 
[[vertical note in left margin]] At Waldorf Astoria [[strikethrough]] Ho [[/strikethrough]] Hotel [[/vertical note in left margin]] 
Sanford Brown seems to know everybody here. Also pleasant meeting with Lammot Dupont and his wife. [[strikethrough]] [[underline]] Oct 14 = [[/underline]] [[/strikethrough]] Promised to be at Chandler dinner and Medal. His address: Lammot duPont Wilmington (Delaware) 
[[underline]] Oct 14. [[/underline]] A letter from my sister in Brussels telling that Dicky and her husband had visited her. [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] in their motor car and went to Ghent to meet Professor Frederic Swarts there. They seemed in good spirits. Will probably go to Le Verdun in France to catch 
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an American steamer. 
[[underline]] Oct. 15. Sunday [[/underline]] 
Bad news. A large British warvessel was sunk by a German submarine and a large part of the British crew and soldiers were killed or drowned. Celine spent the day at Georges in Southport. 
[[underline]] Oct 16. [[/underline]] Faculty meeting at Columbia at 4:10 P.M. Dr. Nicholas M. Buttke presiding. After the meeting a long talk with Professor ^[[H.E.]] [[underline]] Urey [[/underline]] about the situation and [[personel?]] of our faculty [[underline]] (Nobel Prize) [[/underline]] Then Prof. Armstrong famous by his inventions in short wave radio apparatus, took me to his laboratory in the same cellar of the building where Pupin used to carry on his work. 
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[[underline]] Oct 17. [[/underline]] At Yonkers. [[underline]] Oct 18. [[/underline]] Nazis announce that they drove back the French and British to their french boundary. This afternoon went to visit the [[strikethrough]] Motor [[/strikethrough]] annual Motor-Show 
[[underline]] Oct 19 [[/underline]] & 20. - At office. Dickie and her husband have left Le Verdon in France on board U.S. Steamer Manhattan for New York, and have sent us a cablegram. 
[[underline]] Oct 20. [[/underline]] U.S. Steamer Harding which also left Verdon a few days earlier encountered violent storms as well as many other ships. Much dammage and many passengers injured.