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First, and foremost, we bestow upon the staff (bless'em) our fond felicitations and trust that they will carry on in the true Harvard tradition. . .May they act with caution, dignity, and continue to administer according to the dictates of their infinite wisdom. . . . To Brother Busch, a baseball bat, a pencil eraser, a bad memory, who dozen boxes of aspirin, and the latest edition of Watch-Bill Drafting Made Easy. . . . Mr. Flanigan: Bottle of Kreml, giant size. . . . Mr. Wires: a new call sign. . . . to Hopf and Peachie (the Mighty Mite): free and unrestricted access to sick bay, provided they haven...
Last week the Track Writers Association, which annually picks the nation's outstanding indoor track performer, decided it was high time to bestow an award for longtime "distinguished service to track & field." No one was surprised that it went to grey, weather-beaten Emil Von Elling, N.Y.U.'s veteran track coach...
...eccentric donor of the Hales Blue Riband Trophy for speed crossings by transatlantic liners; by accidental drowning in the Thames; near Shepperton-on-Thames, England. He was a roly-poly little china merchant who saved his money for 40 years in order to have an impressive trophy to bestow (temporarily) every time a ship broke the speed record. Last ship to win it was the Queen Mary. Hales was curiously in & out of the news all his life: he flew an airplane around St. Paul's Cathedral in 1908; when he was a Conservative M.P. he enlivened a House...
...worth-while educational institution has ever been subjected to the intensity of sneering criticism that self-righteous circles bestow upon the Snap Course. However the intellectual snobs who glorify work for the sake of work have failed to observe the indispensable role which the Snap plays in American arts and sciences; were it not for this role, it would hardly have withstood the test of time so well...
Congratulations from Emperor Hirohito fix upon their recipient an incredible joy; but also a certain uneasiness. This is because they not only bestow praise; they also adjure the congratulatee to continue the good work-or else...