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HE big, generous soul of Alexander Graham Bell shone out 

 in all his relations with the world. One realized this on meeting 

 him. I think it was in November or December, 1886, that I came 

 home after my first introduction to Dr. Bell, filled with a sense 

 of his charm and his broad interest in man and in all sorts of fine 

 things. 



The facts about that first glimpse of Dr. Bell are interesting. 

 He and his father-in-law, Mr. Gardiner Hubbard, had been 

 financing the new weekly journal. Science, and it was a constant 

 money drain. I don't think that they minded that at all, but Dr. 

 Bell wished to know how the journal could be improved and 

 made more interesting to scientific men and to those interested in 

 science. As a preliminary step, he invited those Washington men 

 who had been contributors to the journal (it had been started 

 only a little more than three years before) to talk things over 

 with him at his home. He was then living in a beautiful house 

 at the corner of Rhode Island Avenue and Fifteenth Street. On 

 the night of the conference, Andrew D. White happened to be 

 his guest. Dr. White had retired from the presidency of Cornell 

 University only the year before, and as he and Dr. Bell stood 

 side by side greeting us, the contrast between the two men 



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