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Ralph S. Brown

Bittker, Boris
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At the end of Ralph's suggested list of speakers for this memorial, he said, "Admonish them to be brief." That caveat, of course, mirrored Ralph's abiding modesty. It surely also reflected a weariness induced by his faithful attendance at half a century of meetings that, however worthy and even essential they may have been, were needlessly protracted. And Ralph's courtesy led him to refer to us, the speakers, as "them," using a collective pronoun rather than specifying those in particular need of his advice. We are thus enabled to proceed in the spirit that animated a British cabinet on addressing Queen Victoria, when they amended their introductory disclaimer-" conscious as we are of our failings"-to "conscious as we are of each other's failings."
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/1620