Word: kaisui
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...really much shorter in Siamese" was the modest comment of Kaisui Nimmanahaeminda I G.B., of Chiengmai, Siam, possessor of the longest surname in Harvard University, when questioned about his astounding monicker in his room at the Business School yesterday...
Appropriately enough, the name means "creation of gold" in his native tongue. Siamese is a hybrid of Pali, an Indian dialect, of which the Harvard monopoly is held by Walter E. Clark '03, Wales Professor of Sanscrit and sole upholder of the Department of Indic Philology. The first name, Kaisui, means "good luck...
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