April 28. Tuesday night, say rather Wednesday morning. Very busy day in Wall Street. Left a great mass of manuscript matter, finished last night, with Haight for examination. Meeting of legislation committee of Trinity Church vestry from three to five. . . .
We had a long and interesting meeting of the Columbia College Board Monday afternoon; did not adjourn till near six P.M. McVickar sent in a communication asking for leave to withdraw from active duty in connection with the college and was shelved with a professorship of “the Evidences of Religion” and a salary of $2,000. Some further discussion on poor Hackley’s case resulting in nothing, and then we went into committee of the whole and worked at details of a statute on the course.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
I think I detect a tiny bit of irony here.
April 30. Tonight is the first Thursday night that Mrs. Strong is “at home,” with what results of comfort or of boredom time will tell. . . .
Half-past one next morning. The “reception” went off pleasantly; thirty or forty people – Judge Daly and wife, Albert Gallatin and wife, George Bancroft (who talked Trinitarianism to me with great pertinacity and expatiated on the significance and logical force of the Athanasian Creed), Miss Mary Ulshoeffer in full-blown splendor, the Anthons, Miss Jane Emmet, John Coster, Newbold Edgar, .
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas