King at the Century 



— the debt I am conscious of owing 

 to King I owe to the Century also 

 for an acquaintance that began there 

 and there ripened into a friend- 

 ship of which, like his other friends, 

 I was destined to receive proofs 

 that were not only substantial but 

 touching as well. And I think it 

 is interesting witness of the scope 

 of this Association's influence and 

 the character of its atmosphere, that 

 a sentiment of such vivacity and 

 such substance as that with which 

 King's memory is there cherished 

 by so many who did not know him 

 elsewhere, can be born and fostered 

 in its friendly and familiar environ- 

 ment. 



It is an environment to which he 

 was evidently and exquisitely at- 

 tuned, and which framed and set off 

 both his lighter and his graver ac- 

 tivities of mind to harmonious ad- 

 vantage. Of every group of which 

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