Warm day. To Boston and Cambridge. Examination and return. Evening company.

I went to Boston early this morning but yet did not reach it in season to be taken up by the carriage as proposed so that I followed on in my own vehicle to Cambridge. Reached it in time for the beginning of the examination of the first division of the Junior class in the Prometheus bound of Aeschylus. This is a piece of which I never read more than the first hundred lines or so and it stands by itself somewhat in its character. The recitations were good and correct but none of them extraordinary. Yet on the whole this class with which I have now been through an entire Greek college course of studies has shown the best of any, although it has rather lost than gained since the Freshman year. Much has been done to improve the studies but much remains to do to make it thorough. Judge Merril and Mr. Hillard were there and we met a large Committee at dinner which had come to examine the library. The party was therefore not so dull as usual although it was not lively.

Home again through Boston. Tacitus, 2d book, from section 10 to 30. Evening at the Mansion.