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tinue to receive that recognition which it has so richly deserved in the 
past, and which we now so inadequately express. 
The teachers of Indiana would consider me lacking in truth and 
courtesy, I am sure, should I fail to give expression to the deep pleasure 
and pride which we feel in the great history of the Academy, and in the 
exceptional capacity for usefulness with which it is so richly and gener- 
ously endowed. 
We greet you, and we bid you Godspeed ! 
FROM THE INDIANA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
3y Dr. S. E. Earp. 
Mr. Chairman: It surely is a pleasure as well as an honor to be chosen 
to appear before you for the Indiana Medical Association. I am the cus- 
todian of the good-will and hearty congratulations of the Indiana State 
Medical Association, but it is not the casket that assumes any importance ; 
it is the jewel I bring you. Now, when we extend our greetings we desire 
that they shall have a cultured application and not a provincial one. Per- 
haps an explanation is in order. 
One of your splendid members. Prof. Stanley Coulter, recently deliv- 
ered an address before The Young Physicians’ Club, of which I am a mem- 
ber—and I am a member by virtue of the fact that all physicians are 
young, but some are younger than others—and Prof. Coulter in his ad- 
dress said that culture is an instinctive appreciation of the very best, and 
that provincialism is narrowness, the antithesis of culture. And _ that 
whenever he had come in contact with a provincialist he had two im- 
pulses, first to laugh at him, and second to kill him. He had done the 
first, but so far he had been able to control himself and not do the second. 
So we appreciate that everything concerning you is the very best, and 
that it is the very best who can appreciate the best in you. 
The Indiana State Medical Association has passed its golden anni- 
versary by ten years. It has 2,690 members in good standing, and yet 
there are not more than twenty-five who are members of this splendid body 
of yours. There ought to be more. There are men who are authorities in 
