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Proressork DENNIS: The program committee wished a man to speak 
for the small college, and it has asked Professor Culbertson to do this. 
He was President of this Academy last year, and it is a fact that he has 
been a member of the Indi:na State Legislature. I cannot understand how 
it came to pass, but will leave that for him to explain—it is true. If he 
occupies six minutes’ time, he has obtained for us through the Legislature 
$100 a minute every year for all of that time, and I think he will be en- 
titled to at least that much. Prof. Glenn Culbertson, of Hanover College. 
PROFESSOR GLENN CULBERTSON: Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentle- 
men: I shall not attempt to explain how I came to the Legislature. I 
enjoyed the experience very much, but I do not know that I shall care to 
go through it again, so you had better be looking up another candidate 
if you want the appropriation continued two years longer. I was very 
much pleased to hear the expression this morning, but there really was not 
very much difficulty in getting the appropriation. And I want to say this 
in regard to that appropriation, that I did not do anything that was against 
my conscience in attempting to get it. If I had not felt that there were 
good papers presented to this Academy every year that ought to be pub- 
lished in its report, I should not have worked for this $600 additional 
appropriation. 
My subject is “The small college in its relation to the Academy of 
Science.” I think by going back twenty-five years in the history of the 
Indiana Academy of Science, every college in the State would come in 
that class. Since then, of course, some of them have moved forward into 
a higher class. I have been a member of the Academy for some fifteen or 
sixteen years, and it has been a great pleasure to come up here year after 
year to hear the papers read and the discussions entered into. They cer- 
tainly have been au inspiration to me, and I take it they have to every man 
in a small institution in Indiana. We are spread out over a considerable 
territory, and we have a great deal of work to do. Dr. Jordan says that 
the more work a man has to do the more he will do, but it is true that 
if we have a great deal of work along different lines we do not have time 
to put in special work in preparing such papers as we have heard here year 
after year; nevertheless we have all done our part. Of course, we of the 
smaller colleges rather envy a good many of the teachers in larger insti- 
tutions because of their ability and opportunity to pursue their work 
along certain lines, but there are compensations. We get a broader grasp 
