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bucket & brought it up to Mason's room! He also mentions his attire on this important day, when he escorted his mother and sisters to the chapel wearing black coat, new pants, dark veskit, blk stockings & pumps. His report of a later exhibition is not quite so creditable:— Oct. 2. Had the pleasure of finishing my oration & rewriting a good deal of it, wh. delighted me & I spent the rest of the day in reading Rookwood— also the eve'g—comfort, fire, 3 candles, rock'g chair. Oct. 20. Exhib. passed off well. . . . I was perfectly self-possessed, but owing to looking round on the audience &c. did n't know what I was saying, made mistakes, hesitated & omitted—but they did n't perceive it & thought it good. In order to save time, Mr. Higginson constantly used abbreviations as above. Such words are henceforth given in full to avoid confusion. The next interesting event seems to have been Wentworth's admission to the Phi Beta Kappa. In an address before this socie