Brandeis Lecture 5 Warm Steam

We're still at Nahum Glatzer's Brandeis lecture and I'm trying to take down the words as I hear them. Something like this:
"This event testifies to the warm steam in which we hold this man. Having Professor Nahum Glatzer at Brandeis is like the good old days."
What..."warm steam?" I didn't know there was a spa and old-time steam room at Brandeis for visiting lecturers.
Oh, you mean "warm esteem." I guess the sound system wasn't so good in that room...

Pencils on sketchbook page, 5" x 7", 1975.