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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 : Every 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 smoked 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. 



Dk. John M. Coulter,: 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, aud 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 



