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March 99

[Tuesday?] 19
Nothing important {Evening} visited by five of
my classmates [?] in disguise [?] [?].

Wednesday 20
Nothing of consequence has occurred this day.
Evening My chum was at the theatre. About
7 O'clock I went over Adam's room, where
I tarried all night.

Thursday 21
Rained considerable,
The Spring with all its charmes shall now [appear?],
And with its beauties deck the [?] [year?}
now the bends beneath the [flowers?] flowry branch [?]
And with their sweet [?] [?] rouse the sluggish

Wednesday [?] 22
Nothing new, the same old round of [?]
[dullness?] still prevails. Coffee [sweet?]
The [?] is now effectively gone.

Saturday 23
Nothing. And [?] with their sweet song the [sluggish?] [?]

Sunday 24
Did not go to meeting. My chum was struck
blind in a [degree?] [and?] {remained} so for some time.
I sat his table for him, but made rather
a bungling piece of work of the business.

March 99

Monday 25
My chum has gone home sick, by whome I
sent two letters, one to my father and the other
to my love. Warm agreeable weather.

Tuesday 26
The freshmen were examined. [?] ultra.

{Wednesday} 27
A horrid storme. [Struck?] [?] in the beginning of
the evening which woke me completely stupid,
and so of course I go to bed Nine O"clock.

Thursday 28
Cold as [January?], so cold that I conclude
to go to bed and [?] under cover.

Fryday 29
Very cold.
When scholars are once from college free,
With hearts well filled with mirth and glee
In place of courting the muses
They, [good souls?], will court the [ladies?].

May 3
Fryday
Returned once more to college, and may no un-
toward circumstance occasion force me to leave
it till the vacation. {Arrived} in town of four [?]
settled of my bills and went early to bed. Had a very
disagreeable journey from M- a cold storm part
of the way. Albee came down to take back the