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"Everyone here is very much interested in the elections, so most of my spare time is spent at the telegraph office."

"Rutgers played Stevens yesterday at football--six black eyes and a fractured kneepan for our side--a broken wrist and ankle for theirs--neither side won a goal after playing all the afternoon." "I will send you a copy of the Targum this week containing college news." Expects to see his father at the trustees meeting on Tuesday.

"On Wednesday we played Stevens at football and were victorious by a score of 7 to 3." Tuesday, election day, to be a holiday, as well as Columbia football game. Two men suspended for five weeks for putting asafoetida on Doolittle's stove.

Hard at work preparing for examinations to get out on Tuesday, December 19th, "so I may be expected home to supper on that day--be sure and have something nice." Went to New York on Wednesday afternoon to attend the boating convention at the 5th Avenue Hotel. "I shall expect to compose a sermon at the table while I am at home."

"Everything is quite well here all the boys are back...I have been out every night since my return to some shindig or other so I manage to drag out a weary existence." "We have some fearfully hard Dutch this term...I am liable to become disgusted with the language." Met a Miss Cary [sp.?], a knowledgeable senior from Rutgers Female College.

All the elite of the town were at a ball the previous night, where he danced himself "nearly to death." (A "bill of fare" is included, a dance card labeled "Assembly at Masonic Hall, Monday Evening, Feb'y 12, 1877." Floyd is engaged for 13 of the 15 dances.). He is on the stage committee for a theatrical performance planned for after Lent--a travesty on Romeo and Juliet.

The Boat Club is to give a promenade concert next Friday. "I have opposed with all my power and have endeavored to put it off until after Lent - but I did not meet with any success." Hopes the faculty have not been sending any more letters home.

Has been working on the Scarlet Letter, published by the secret societies for about $4 per person ("quite a pile"). "There is a great excitement in the college now about the new boat house."

Apparently has injured himself in some way. He complains of getting along slowly, a painful arm, staying in the house, how dull it will be when all the fellows have gone, and his mind not being able to stay fixed on any one thing for long.

Four boxes of good things arrived from home. His arm is rapidly gaining strength. He hopes to use it as much as ever in a few months. He has had a sick headache for three days, and hopes to work it off on one of his pleasant little strolls up to Bound Brook and back, about fourteen miles in 2 {bd} hours. The Choral Society is rehearsing Mendelsohn's opera Loreley for a pre-commencement concert.