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...thank you for anything you may do to correct this omission...
While I wish to thank the CRIMSON for their very kind remarks about the Student Conference on Careers in Government in yesterday's editorial, it would be unfair not to mention the two "aides" who were most responsible for the "clockwork" which you praised. The conference would not have been so successful without the constant and persistent work of Bruce Bliven, Jr., and Ely. J. Kahn, Jr., who devoted two entire days to making arrangements, taking registration, and, on Saturday, keeping just one jump ahead of the conference. It is to them that most praise is due. Raymond Dennett...
...frail, goateed President William Preston Few, who can thank "Buck" Duke for blowing up his tiny Trinity College into big Duke University. Snapped grateful President Few: "The glory of this university is that it is built in accordance with carefully made plans. These, in all essentials, are apt to be followed to the end. I have a profound appreciation of what Mr. Duke has striven to do for Education and Humanity, and I would do honor to his good deeds in any way, however conspicuous...
...Thank God for the National Student League. If it hadn't been for them, Harvard might have let the incident pass, and thanked the German government for the gesture of friendliness and recognition arising from the university's recognition of its German heroes. Harvard might have taken the gesture at its face value, and in its innocent and unsuspicious heart been grateful...
...package and dropped you down Creation's chimney, he brought the loveliest Christmas present that I can think of in all the world. . . . I'll give you this, if you'll give me a kiss." Said stoic Shirley Temple, up three hours after bedtime: "Thank you . . . very much." When Claudette Colbert received her prize, she burst into tears. Said Clark Gable: "It's a grand and glorious feeling but I'll be wearing the same size hat tomorrow...