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Nile Kinnick's correspondence with his family, January-June 1939

1939-01-08: Page 10

sidered it a honor to have me connected with the bank. In what way I couldn't say, but if he thinks so I feel highly flattered. I shall continue to stand on those principles from which I believe the external characteristics have sprung that resulted in my being selected for the job rather than some other athlete or some other student. Anytime that they or any other employer of mine or my associates disapprove or become intolerant of the principles which give birth and foster those characteristics which they originally professed to so admire - they making no correlation, or appreciation of the cause and effect between principle and external characteristic - we then have met the parting of the ways. However, to explain all this at the time of employment is not feasible for that would be akin to apologizing for your very being. (This is somewhat of

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sidered it a honor to have me connected with the bank. In what way I couldn't say, but if he thinks so I feel highly flattered. I shall continue to stand on those principles from which I believe the external characteristics have sprung that resulted in my being selected for the job rather than some other athlete or some other student. Anytime that they or any other employer of mine or my associates disapprove or become intolerant of the principles which give birth and foster those characteristics which they originally professed to so admire - they making no correlation, or appreciation of the cause and effect between principle and external characteristic - we then have met the parting of the ways. However, to explain all this at the time of employment is not feasible for that would be akin to apologizing for your very being. (This is somewhat of