[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from June 1 (reply #3).

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

[Tax-chick]

I wish I could get Mr. Strong to run my church Stewardship Committee! Our meeting last night went on for two hours, and went I went back to look for my phone (which I’d actually left at home), several members were still there wrangling about budget issues over which none of us has any influence worth mentioning. The Finance Committee knows we won’t cease to volunteer or switch parishes, after all.

There is nothing new under the sun.

[henkster]

Life seems to be moving along rather normally; so far, 1857 is fairly calm after the election, Bloody Kansas, and the Dred Scott decision.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from June 8 (reply #11).]

June 11. At Columbia College from ten to twelve as Haight’s substitute on the committee to attend examination. Heard McVickar’s examination of Seniors in political economy and evidences. (Mack is the evidences of revealed religion.) Very creditable, though I suppose the best scholars were called up while the inspectors were present.

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas