Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank you for uncovering a dark horse in the Democratic Party -Governor Frank Lausche of Ohio. Glad to know that there are still honest politicians who put duty and honor before friendship...
...mailman resting from his labours. To professors taking meals on the cheap in the drug stores, equally with the gang in the Faculty Club, and to students whose fathers went to Harvard along with those whose fathers chose to go to the dogs, we give a glad greeting...
Happy Thanksgiving day to the man who extended the hours at Lamont and to the staff which has to work them. A glad greeting to students who misapply their mathematics, to footballers out of training and wives on a diet, and a special thought for the lovers in Widener reference. Good resting to the students of Paleontology and Stratigraphy and those who converse in Advanced Mandarin, and happy times too for the men who sweep up leaves on windy days. Big eating and long sleeping to Faculty who cite the Fifth Amendment, to students walking Garden Street in black capes...
...cross on the red and yellow. To doctors of philosophy perishing for failure to publish and to brethren perishing because they have published, to old men reading Plato, to seniors with black goatees and to juniors cultivating Harvard's air of indifference by nodding in class, we extend a glad word. A day of rare Thanksgiving to Nieman and Ford Fellows and other itinerant scholars, and a thought for the girls sitting sideways on the Memorial Church steps. To frustrated souls reading Kinsey in the stacks, to writers whose books have not been reviewed, to students late for lectures...
Medical reports on the Smith case weigh 4½ Ibs. Engineering reports on the case of Smith's airplane weigh 12 Ibs. The experts do not maintain that bailing out at more than the speed of sound is a safe procedure, but they are glad that at least one man has done it and lived. Now a pilot whose airplane heads for the deck in a screaming supersonic dive will know that he has a chance of survival...