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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
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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
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