English 1-12, the worst exam of all, because I have to squash a comp which always takes me two hours into 1 ¼ . Wrote on ‘The great man down, you mark his favourite flies’ [Hamlet Act III] Began all right, but was so slow that I got panicky and ended very badly. The Literature portion I did better, answering on Wordsworth’s belief that poetry should only be an elevated prose etc. etc. Had Irish 1-3: Dickie`s usual stereotyped style. Didn’t do it all for the end was about a fierce verse of Irish poetry that I knew nothing of. Arith. 5-7. Did 6/7. It is extraordinary but before every hard exam, I picture how I will rejoice when it is over, yet, even though I do well, a reaction follows, and I am completely fed up afterwards. Came home and swotted Latin and History.
Read in paper that the feast of the Virgin of Guadeloupe was held in Mexico for the first time without priests. – The Emperor of Japan is dying, and the whole country mourning for him. The cabinet have removed their offices to the palace to be by his side.
