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82 my formal banquet in big room. My speech. The near future gave me a chance to make some complimentary remarks to [[underlined]] Acheson [[/underlined]] who seemed to be overcome by emotion and wept. Many ladies present good speeches, cheerful spirit a great success. Best function of the kind we ever had. Afterwards dancing in ballroom until 1 P.M I did not dance nor attempt to do it. Tahamine and Mrs. Tahamine here. Also Cohoe of Toronto. went to bed at 1 P.M!! "The boys of Section 9" had invented a new song singing the [[end page]] [[start page]] 83 [[vertical red line length of left margin]] praises of Bakelite and Velox and repeated it at intervals. Here begins a year of new responsibilities ^for me^ Great as the honor is I prefer to be one of the humbler workers and hope my election has not disappointed some of my friends who deserve the presidency very much more than I do. Passing ^alone^ over the ^Niagara^ bridge and looking towards Niagara, this afternoon I could hardly abstain from thinking how slowly and steadily I had found my way onwards and there was quite some distance traveled [[strikethrough]] alread [[/strikethrough]] which the poor unknown and [[unconsidered?]] [[strikethrough]] shoemaker [[/strikethrough]] shoemaker's son [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] would hardly have dreamt of thirty years ago. And yet even [[end page]]