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of the Irishman who said he wished he knew just the spot where he would 
die. His brother asked him what he wanted to know that for, and he said 
if he knew the exact spot, he would spend the rest of his life keeping 
away from it. So I think the Indiana Academy of Science, through some 
of its officials, must have discovered the spot where it might die, and 
started in the opposite direction, and we are twenty-five years removed 
from that place tonight. 
That leads me (with apologies to Tennyson) to conclude by saying, 
that 
Scientists may come and scientists may go, 
But the Academy goes on forever. 
(Applause. ) 
PROFESSOR DENNIS: LHvery word I said in introducing Dr. Jordan is 
true of the next speaker; every teacher in the state would forgive me for 
saying that after Dr. Jordan left us he became our premier. There was, 
however, one difference. Dr. Jordan, as President of the State University, 
had for his rule a motto “Die Luft der Freiheit weht.” 
The students hardly knew what this meant but finally concluded it 
was “No smoking in the buildings.” Prof. Coulter succeeded Jordan and 
the first day he smoked in the office. (He sometimes esmoked in those 
days.) The students made a bonfire of their best hats:—they had had 
but one rule and now they had none. Prof. John M. Coulter, of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago. 
Dr. JOHN M. Courter: Mr. Toastmaster and Friends: All these an- 
cient and new members of the Academy, who have spoken, have about 
exhausted the subjects, and I hardly know where to find myself. One 
thing I had in mind when Dr. Jordan was suggesting that heredity perhaps 
determined in the first place whether a man was going to do anything or 
not, and that things that followed were more or less auxiliary. I remem- 
ber to have heard Dr. Wiley some years ago raise the question why there 
were so many scientific men in this State as well as men who had achieved 
more or less distinction in other callings. He answered it then to his own 
satisfaction. I have never seen it tested, but he concluded that the men 
in Indiana who had made their mark in science or in any of the other pro- 
fessions were the men whose early life had been spent in the most for- 
bidding parts of the State from an agricultural point of view, and that 
there was nothing to become interested in except education. Just how 
many scientific men were lined up in this roll-call, I do not know, but 
