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George thanks his parents for the clean newspapers they sent. He has been in Ann Arbor five weeks, notes how quickly time is passing, and expects to be home in eight more weeks. His studies—especially calculus, which he hasn’t taken in three years—are especially difficult.

Saturday was all field work, “They make field work here a prominent feature of the instruction in the Engineering department, as indeed it ought to be.” Is off work from 3pm until dark. They are laying out a railroad to the northeast of Ann Arbor, extending “over hollows and through hills, for over a mile, and surveying it gives us exercise as well as pracise.”