Letters, Jul. 9, 1934

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New Haven, Conn. Sirs: Doesn't the "kudization" of Samuel Seabury [at Rutgers] deserve mention in TIME along with that of Presidents Dodds and Thomas Watson? [TIME, June 18]. . . .

S. K. FENICHEL

Newark, N. J.

In three weeks of "Kudos" TIME made no attempt to record all honorary degrees —some 1,900—awarded throughout the U. S. last month.—ED. Exchange

Sirs:

As a Harvard man, I just loved the nice long "timely" essay on Princeton in the June 18 issue of TIME. Indeed I liked it so much that if you do not mind, I should be glad to have exchanged my subscription to TIME for one to the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

OSCAR JAMES CAMPBELL

San Marino, Calif.

Let Harvardman Campbell see TIME, Feb. 5, delight himself further with a "nice long timely' essay" on Harvard's new president, Dr. James Bryant Conant.—ED.

Traveling Hamburgers Sirs: I think that was a perfectly fine piece in TIME [June 11] about Thomas Mann, but you unfortunately picked up in it one rather annoying—to Mann—misstatement when you quoted him as saying: "I am from Hamburg, and people from Hamburg are not given to traveling." Of course Mann never said any such thing. He never came from Hamburg and, of course, Hamburgers as a matter of fact travel a great deal. The whole thing isn't, of course, of overwhelming importance, but. . .

ALFRED A. KNOPF

New York City

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