This is a good example of "Don't judge a book by it's
> cover".
>
> A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed
> in a homespun
> threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and
> walked timidly without an
> appointment into the Harvard University President's
> outer office. The secretary
> could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country
> hicks had no business at
> Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in
> Cambridge.
> She frowned...
>
> "We want to see the president," the man said softly.
>
> "He'll be busy all day," the secretary snapped.
>
> "We'll wait," the lady replied.
>
> For hours, the secretary ignored them, hoping that the
> couple would finally
> become discouraged and go away. They didn't and the
> secretary grew frustrated
> and finally decided to disturb the president, even
> though it was a chore she
> always regretted.
> "Maybe, if they just see you for a few minutes, they'll
> leave," she told him. He
> sighed in exasperation and nodded. Someone of his
> importance obviously didn't have the time to spend with
> them, but he detested gingham dresses and homespun
> suits cluttering up his outer office.The president,
> stern-faced and with
> dignity, strutted toward the couple.
>
> The lady told him, "We had a son who attended Harvard
> for one year. He loved
> Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was
> accidentally killed. My
> husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him,
> somewhere on campus."
>
> The president wasn't touched.... He was
> shocked. "Madam," he said gruffly, "we
> can't put up a statue for every person who has attended
> Harvard and died. If we
> did, this place would look like a cemetery."
>
> "Oh, no," the lady explained quickly. "We don't want to
> erect a statue. We
> thought we would like to give a building to Harvard."
>
> The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham
> dress and homespun
> suit, then exclaimed,"A building! Do you have ! any
> earthly idea how much a
> building costs? We have over seven and a half million
> dollars in the physical
> plant at Harvard."
>
> For a moment the lady was silent. The president was
> pleased. Maybe he could get
> rid of them now.The lady turned to her husband and said
> quietly, "Is that all it
> costs to start a university? Why don't we just start our
> own?" Her husband
> nodded.
>
> The president's face wilted in confusion and
> bewilderment. Mr. and Mrs. Leland
> Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto,
> California where they
> established the university that bears their name,
> STANFORD UNIVERSITY, a
> memorial to a son that
> Harvard no longer cared about.
>
> You can easily judge the character of others by how they
> treat those who they
> think can do nothing for them or to them. -- by Malcolm
> Forbes
>

the stanfords never had a son that went to harvard.

i do beleive the last line of your post is most significant though...and highly accurate.

Didn't know it was Malcolm Forbes.

Eli Callaway (sp?), inventor of the Big Bertha club, said to my boss at an outing years ago, "judge the caliber of a man, by how he treats someone he needs nothing from."

Thanks!

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A GREAT STORY NONE THE LESS!

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I love my SM-57's

I had to sell alll my mics. But an SM-57 and SM-58 will be the first two mics I buy again!

Anybody try the 'beta' versions of these two mics???

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Are they pre or post?