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has became a regular flirt and so all ends apparently
well. The greatest success was the "hop" in the evening.
I didn't go but stayed home and worked all day on my
thesis and finished the mathematical part in the evening
which relieves me very much, as I have been working
for six weeks or more on it and it comes out just as
I was wishing it might. It is on the distribution of
loads in a steel footing for high buildings and I
can now show that the present method is theoretically
very incorrect. About ten o'clock Hethrington and I went
over to see what we could see at the hop. As no one was allowed in
the galleries we climed [climbed] up on a shed on a lower part
of the gym and tore holes in the curtains and watched
the fun for about an hour. It was a very pritty [pretty] party
indeed. There were a great many strangers there, & especially
many young ladies from the city, which made it much
brighter that it would have been otherwise. They danced
until after three in the morning I believe. I must
go to church now and will finish the account of yesterday
when I get home again. It is a cold disagreable day