FOREWORD 
Greeting to the Ohio Academy of 
Science 
Eighteenth Annual Meeting, Nov. 27, 1908 
By 
PRESIDENT EMORY W. HUNT 
It gives me pleasure on behalf of Denison University to welcome this Academy. 
It is our hope that you may find the atmosphere of the college congenial to your spirit 
and purpose. You cannot meet in this building without becoming assured that the 
trustees and friends of Denison give hearty sympathy and support to the work of its 
Scientific Departments. 
We believe in the truth. We believe it enough so that we are not nervous about 
it. We believe that the world of truth is consistent. Its various departments are 
not at war with each other. Apparent conflict means a faulty reading of the facts 
somewhere. Nothing that is true can ever obscure a faith that is real. If it is true, 
no matter who says it, we want to know it, and to surrender our lives to it. 
Moreover, we are persuaded that every investigator and teacher needs all the 
light that is available. The man of truth opens wide the windows of his mind in 
every direction. He does not shut his mind to the light from above. The true 
teacher is reverent. 
The teacher needs also the side-lights upon truth, the special illumina- 
tion and inspiration, the enrichment of his own life, which come only from original 
research and independent investigation. However, the teacher must never permit 
himself to forget that his objective is a personality, not a “thesis.” The real teacher 
longs to inspire in others the spirit of research, and is willing to take the trouble 
patiently to inculcate in them right basal methods. 
One who is mentally alive enough to teach, will inevitably be extending his 
lines of inquiry into new territory. If he does not do this, his own mental life will 
stagnate and he will lose teaching power. 
With this trust in the truth, and this loyalty to the light, we welcome you as 
fellow-seekers for truth, who are also trying to guide others into the truth. 
