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Professor 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 Indiana 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 an 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 linos, but there are compensations. We get a broader grasp 



