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Updated: August 25, 2026

Guests were often entertained at the x dinners, men of science or letters of almost every nationality a delightful and quite informal mode of personal intercourse. In the summer, also, the x often made a week-end expedition into the country or up the river, in which the wives of the married members took part, the formula for the invitation being x's + yv's.

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