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gave the savings of a frugal and industrious life. The Luther Dana 
Waterman Institute for Research began its work in September, 1917. 
It is a satisfaction to know that Dr. Waterman lived to see the work 
inaugurated and to express interest in its progress. It is to be regretted 
that he did not live to see at least one publication from the Institute 
which with wisdom and generosity he had established. 
At the Indiana University commencement exercises, June 23, 1915, 
President Bryan chose Dr. Waterman’s life as a theme for his address 
to the senior class. No more fitting conclusion to this biography could 
be written. I therefore quote from President Bryan’s address: 
“T wish to say a few words to the oldest member of our faculty— 
Dr. Luther Dana Waterman, professor of medicine emeritus. 
“Surgeon in the Federal Army, prisoner of war at Macon and 
Charleston, in civil life physician and professor of medicine, you have 
in eighty-four years won position and honors and fortune such that 
many would for them sacrifice everything else in the world. But I 
wish these my children to see that you have made your way up to a 
great practical success without sacrificing everything else in the world. 
You have not sacrificed your interest in the worlds that le outside of 
your vocation of physician. Most men of every calling are caught 
within the trap of their own business. Not you. You have escaped 
that trap. You have traveled far among men and books and ideas. 
You are not of those who bear a title from the college of liberal arts 
and are yet aliens from its spirit. In the world of the liberal arts you 
are a citizen. You are friend with Plato and Virgil and Darwin and 
their kind. You know that these are not dead names in the academic 
catalogue, but living forces and makers of society. In that world you 
have spoken your own word in verses which are resolutely truthful, 
discriminating and brave. The joy of living as you have done in the 
wide, free and glorious world of the liberal arts is such that many for 
it have sacrificed everything else, including that practical success which 
you have not sacrificed. 
“But besides your successes inside and beyond your calling you have 
had another fortune. Long ago there came to you an idea. You had 
lived from the days of the tallow candle and a thousand things which 
went with that to the days of the electric light and a thousand things 
which go with that. Within your lifetime you had seen an incredible 
access of power, enlightenment and freedom, from the discovery of truth 
of which all preceding generations had been ignorant. You had then 
the insight, the conviction that the Great Charity is the discovery of 
truth, which is thenceforth light and power and freedom for all men. 
This conviction became your deepest purpose. Thirty-two years ago 
you wrote: 
