(seq. 3)

[LEFT PAGE]
29 August 1796
Monday
may they maintain that honor, which our class have
[Resin’d?] in the athletick exercises.
I had poor success in the ring this evening flung only
one. [but?] at evening I heard that or class are
victorious word that only 17 entered the list with
[ ? ].

Tuesday 30
About recovered from my [velase?]; [?] excused from
our Horace lessons; hd some fun eating a water
mellon; after dinner escapped our [letters?] by
flinging water at eachother; and during [ap?]
Ben had the misfortune to get properly wet
Evening
Walked with Bean and Allen almost to Little
Cambridge meetinghouse; Sup'd with Bean
In a [mixed?] company. By this time I
begin to think that the bed is my best friend.
Wednesday 31
As yet nothing of importance has transpired.
[Discovered?], at least as I thought, a neglect,
which I impute to pride; but, I am [truly?]
unworthy of respect, and this neglect ought not
to trouble me in the least, I am resolved that is
shall not occasion any domestick [fude?] betw[een]
me and my chums, and that I will bury it
In the recesses of my own breast.

[RIGHT PAGE]
31 August 1796
Wednesday
What reason have I to be displeased? I am but a
countryman, and for me to presume to associate
with those, who come from the town is a presum
tion which ought to be checkd; yet it appears that
there ought to be divisions in a class on [account?], but
That [arguably?] ought to exist among those, who are
subject to the same laws, and must indeterminate-
ly submit themselves to the same regulations.

Thursday September 1796	I now set down to read the occurrences of

The forenoon was productive of nothing of consequence;
but in the afternoon, after prayers, our class
accepted the invitation of the sengniors to return
to the hall and partake of a treat, which they had
there prepared for us, on account of our victores in
wrestling. In the the hall there was a great
display of sociability and good humor; and after
we had drunk several good toosts, among which
was this, may the late victories of the freshman
class stimulate them in the paths of literature,
we all retired from the hall, some to their rooms,
and some [?] themselves by walking; but by far
the greatest part of both classes went onto the
where they exhibited the apearance of a company
of bachanals. Bean, Allen and myself, who [had?]