Item 1. Inform the master of the College that it is not necessary to send me ten to fifteen of these reports a day. A single summary report of the previous day's observations is sufficient.
     Item 2. Select from the reports of the last four days three signally favorable and three unfavorable auspices. I may require them in the Senate today.

     This passage may be from the beginning of the book, but that is not why I chose it. I chose it because I found humorous. It's not often that a literature book has humor at the beginning, or at all. So I thought I would point it out and give it some credit. So LOL, and if you don't get it, read the book.