Professor Hamilton's Diary: Oct. 28, 1935

He mails his book contract; geese go over Niagara Falls, without barrels

Professor Hamilton seldom uses exclamation points, but he did today when he wrote about his book. “Mailed contract to Columbia Univ. Press!” What a sense of accomplishment he must have felt all day as he taught classes.

The Reading Times provided a mixture of local and international news every day. The story that caught my eye today was about 5,000 wild geese playing a game of chicken with Niagara Falls.

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