{"id":2469,"date":"2012-05-10T15:01:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T19:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2013-12-17T18:17:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:17:36","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-november-25-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-november-25-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: November 25, 1983 (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, November 25, 1983, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19831125-001-unh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, November 25, 1983, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19831125-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">[Click image to view]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: white; padding-left: 30px;\">November 25, 1983<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the dinner. It was knockout,<br \/>\nespecially that corned beef, cut thick as<br \/>\npork chops!<\/p>\n<p>I woke up the next day thinking I\u2019d been a<br \/>\nbit hard on old Colby-Sawyer. It\u2019s not the college\u2019s<br \/>\nfault, after all, if that article in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">US News<\/span> has<br \/>\nits share of hype. I too hope things work out for<br \/>\nthe place. And I hope for various reasons I won\u2019t<br \/>\nbe there soon.<\/p>\n<p>You are both great to ask me over with the<br \/>\nbook. Probably it will come on Tuesday, but I<br \/>\nwill call before I come.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>A note from McNair about this letter:<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0<\/span>The <em>US News and World Report<\/em> article ranked Colby-Sawyer among the top colleges of its class in the Northeast. Thus, the mention of &#8220;hype.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2469\" data-postid=\"2469\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2469 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] November 25, 1983 Dear Don, Thank you for the dinner. It was knockout, especially that corned beef, cut thick as pork chops! I woke up the next day thinking I\u2019d been a bit hard on old Colby-Sawyer. It\u2019s not the college\u2019s fault, after all, if that article in US News has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35322,35504,42982,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11158,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions\/11158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}