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He was a handsome, sturdy boy, and his father expected a Phi Beta Kappa key of him and an enthusiasm for Marx and John Stuart Mill. His aunt's plans were vague, but altogether different. At present she was inclined to favour the family business, with the understanding that when he was established at its head he should give a beautiful chapel with a Magdalen tower to the College.
Why, two of them must have alpha, two beta, and of the next two pairs one has certainly drawn gammas and the other deltas, so that four letters have been used up over eight competitors. Obviously, then, the next letter, which is epsilon, is the only one that can be odd, and the drawer of it is the bye. Ly.
In 1861 I was invited to deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration, and I was then made a member of the society. Since the opening of the war I have been at Cambridge on two or three occasions only, and my present acquaintance with the persons in power is very limited. From 1844 to 1850 I received from Governor Briggs several appointments.
The other fourth-magnitude star near Vega is zeta, a wide double, magnitudes fourth and sixth, distance 44", p. 150°. Below we find beta, another very interesting star, since it is both a multiple and an eccentric variable.
But there are many discursive remarks in it worth gathering and considering. We have the complaint of the Cambridge "Phi Beta Kappa Oration," reiterated, that there is no complete man, but only a collection of fragmentary men. As a Platonist and a poet there could not be any doubt on which side were all his prejudices; but he takes his ground cautiously.
Sir David Gill's definitive results were published in 1900. As the average parallax of the eleven brightest stars in the southern hemisphere, they gave 0·13", a value enhanced by the exceptional proximity of Alpha Centauri. Yet four of these conspicuous objects Canopus, Rigel, Spica, and Beta Crucis gave no sign of perspective response to the annual change in our point of view.
One day, when I was in a tavern with some of my wild fellow-students, I saw among them one of my former school-fellows, named Beta, whom I had known four years before at Halberstadt, but whom at that time I had despised, because he was so quiet and serious.
But of all this nothing can ever be known, because the feasts of Phi Beta Kappa are sealed with secrecy. It is not a great many years ago that, among Protestants in this country, Easter was mainly the festival of one denomination, and even within that denomination it was celebrated with comparatively little pomp.
The action of these three different sets of rays upon certain substances is not the same, the beta and gamma rays acting strongly upon barium platinocyanide, but feebly on Sidot's blende, while the alpha rays act exactly the reverse of this, acting strongly on Sidot's blende. If a surface is coated with Sidot's blende and held near a piece of radium nitrate, the coated surface begins to glow.
I have seen Guaiqueries and pilots of the Zambo caste, who could find the pole-star by the direction of the pointers alpha and beta of the Great Bear, and they seemed to me to steer less from the view of the pole-star itself, than from the line drawn through these stars.
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