Ladies and gentlemen:
I could expect that this assembly would induce generous expressions, yet it would be wrong for me to say that you have outdone yourselves. To conceive this as possible would be to diminish the accomplishments of the magazine. To do such a thing would be ungrateful-a mistaken feint at modesty. It would be wrong, in this hallowed hour, even to suggest that there have been imperfections. We acknowledge, as a matter of form, that anything man-made could be improved. Perhaps if Johann Sebastian Bach had had an extra week he might have improved his Passion According to St. Matthew, or written a
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