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Henry, born in 1817, was duly baptized by good Dr. Ripley of the Old Manse, studied Greek and Latin, and was graduated at Harvard in 1837, the year of Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address. Even in college the young man was a trifle difficult. "Cold and unimpressible," wrote a classmate. "The touch of his hand was moist and indifferent. He did not care for people."
I got the impression that he just didn't want the subject of rainfall on Beta discussed at all." "That is odd. Has anything else peculiar been happening over on Beta lately?" "No. Not that I know of," he repeated.
The whole made a deep impression on me. I was happy; though, if I had been asked why I was happy, I could not have clearly explained it. When we walked home, I said to Beta: "All we have seen on our journey to Switzerland, and all our former pleasures, are as nothing in comparison with this evening."
The sapphire Lady Carwitchet wears is only an excellent imitation, and I have seen it with my own eyes is the one bearing Bogaerts's mark, the Greek Beta." Some years ago I engaged passage from Charleston, S. C., to the city of New York, in the fine packet-ship Independence, Captain Hardy. I found that we were to have a great many passengers, including a more than usual number of ladies.
"Are you so very proficient?" "I was I am Phi Beta Kappa," he sadly confessed. Her laugh rippled out. "You don't look it," she cheered. "Oh, no, I don't look it," he complacently agreed. "That's the lamp in the gloom. But I am. I couldn't help it. I was curious about things and I studied about them and faculties pressed honors upon me. I am even here upon a semi-learned errand.
If there had be any appreciable disturbance in the place of Beta Draconis in consequence of the movement of the earth around the sun, the star must appear to have the smallest latitude when in conjunction with the sun, and the greatest when in opposition. The star passed the meridian at noon in December, and its position was particularly noticed by Molyneux on the third of that month.
And since this is also visible in certain permanent, though peculiar objects notably in P Cygni, Beta Lyræ, and Eta Carinæ the acting cause must also evidently be permanent and inherent. The "new star of the new century" was a visual discovery. Dr. Anderson duplicated, with added éclat, his performance of nine years back.
It was my task now to prove to them that they were right. It was May 2nd when I found myself back at the Maplin Sands to the north of the estuary of the Thames. The Beta was sent on to the Solent to block it and take the place of the lamented Kappa.
We are told that the five-minute speeches with which Judge Hoar year after year delighted the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa contained but one original idea, clearly stated, and but one fresh story, well told. This is indeed a model to be admired of all men; yet how few of us will take the trouble of copying it!
An English guest at the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa dinner said that when he returned home he would be asked two questions, if he had seen Niagara Falls, and if he had met Emerson.
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