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of the door on the first floor with the little name plate "Mr. March" on it, - as we rode home we passed the little food shops along the street called Picadilly gave out tempting odors, and the roasters of peanuts and chestnuts sent clouds of fragrance into the night as they turned the nuts in the great roasting pans over the fires in front of the shops. The peanuts of the season are innow, and all along the street are the stands. Usually the stands have many little piles which may be bought for a copper a pile, and also a large pile from which the affluent may buy as much as ten cents worth.  I stopped and bought a dime's worth of peanuts, and the dealer had a hard time finding a large enough paper to put them in. 

When we got home we had peanuts and moon cakes and several other good things for supper, and in the evening I made a couple sketches that had been promised to the Fus. 

Monday, 5 October

This morning we had another meeting of the committee on Language Study of the univversity. In the afternoon I went up to the school to see that everything was all right in my department, with the beginning of class work. At four-thirty we had a University Council meeting, and I attended that. It is amazing the number of little odds and ends of things there are always to do. We are still having some difficulty with our sections in English. We made the mistake of announcing to the students the names of the teachers of the various sections of English, and some teachers are more popular than others. There were some little mixups in registration, and also there were some large sections and some small. In trying to get them evened up I have had a good deal of fuss and bother, and I am quite sure that next year we shall assign sections arbitrarily as they have in the past, without allowing a choice The work is exactly the same in all sections, so we be arbitrary without difficulty; and if we start in that was it avoids the confusion that arises when one tries to make arbitray adjustments after choices have been allowed. In both freshman and sophomore English we have over 110 student, meaning that each class must be divided into six sections.  Besides these little things, and students changing course, there