PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTY-FIFTH 
ANNUAL SESSION 
Held at Indianola, April 29 and 30, 1921 
The meetings of the thirty-fifth annual session were held at 
Simpson College on Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30, 1921. 
President Knight called the opening meeting to order at 1 :30 p. m. 
in the auditorium of the new Administration Building. After the 
business session the President gave his address on “American Sci- 
ence.” At the conclusion of this meeting the Academy adjourned 
to meet as sections. At 5 o’clock the members were given an en- 
joyable auto ride through the courtesy of the Indianola Chamber 
of Commerce and at 6 oTlock the sections met at group dinners. 
At 8 o’clock the Academy was addressed by Dr. J. Paul Goode of 
the University of Chicago on “America as a World Power.” Fol- 
lowing this meeting President and Mrs. Hillman received the 
members of the Academy in the parlors of the Administration 
Building. The executive committee held a meeting at which the 
proposed revision of the Constitution was discussed and approved. 
On Saturday morning the sections met at 9 o’clock to complete 
their programs and at 10:30 the Academy convened to hear the 
discussion by Doctors Baldwin and Stecher on Child Welfare 
Research and that by Dr. Morehouse on Nova Cygni, No. 3. At 
11 o’clock the business session was convened and the first order of 
business was the reading and passage of the revised constitution. 
Invitations for the next meeting were received from Penn Col- 
lege and Drake University. The Executive Committee later ac- 
cepted the invitation of Drake. After the reception of committee 
reports and the election of officers under the new constitution the 
Academy adjourned. 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 
Members of the Academy: 
Probably the activity of a society such as ours may be gauged 
primarily by the interest in and attendance upon its meetings and 
also by the number and quality of the papers presented before its 
