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Professors White and Wolf of Harvard, who had been 

 sent by the American Academy of Sciences. The scene 

 was very striking, all the delegates, except those from 

 America and Switzerland, being in the costumes of the 

 organizations they represented; most were picturesque, 

 and some had a very mediaeval appearance; those from 

 the ancient universities of Wiirzburg and Prague, espe 

 cially, looking as if they had just stepped out of an illumi 

 nated manuscript of the fourteenth century. At the time 

 named for the beginning of the festival the Emperor en 

 tered, announced by the blare of trumpets, preceded by 

 ministers bearing the sword, standard, and great seal, and 

 by generals bearing the crown, scepter, and orb. He was 

 surrounded by the highest officials of the kingdom and em 

 pire, and having taken his seat on the throne, there came 

 majestic music preluding sundry orations and lists of 

 honors conferred on eminent men of science in all parts 

 of the world, among whom I was glad to note Professors 

 Gibbs of Yale, James of Harvard, and Eowland of Johns 

 Hopkins. 



The Emperor s speech was characteristic. It showed 

 that his heart was in the matter ; that he felt a just pride 

 in the achievements of German science, and was deter 

 mined that no efforts of his should be wanting to increase 

 and extend them. After the close of the function, which 

 was made in the same stately way as its beginning, my 

 colleagues drove home with me, and one of them said, 

 &quot;Well, I am an American and a republican, but when I 

 am in a monarchy I like to see a thing of this kind done 

 in the most magnificent way possible, as it was this morn 

 ing.&quot; A day or two afterward, at the dinner given to 

 the ambassadors by the Emperor, I told him this story. 

 He laughed heartily, and then said : i Your friend is right : 

 if a man is to be a monarch, let him be a monarch ; Dom 

 Pedro of Brazil tried to be something else, and it did 

 not turn out well.&quot; 



Impressive in a different way were the ceremonies at 

 tendant upon the coming of age of the German crown 



