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Response

University of Wisconsin

Abstract

Mr. President, Mr. Toastmaster, Members of the Society, and Friends:

It has been my pleasure on numerous occasions of this sort to be sitting at one of the tables out there and observing the person who was in the position it is my fortune to occupy tonight. In spite of the fact that he always seemed deeply sensible of the honor being done him, I must say he did not always appear altogether comfortable. Now I can understand why, and I can also sympathize with the bug which the biologist impales on a pin and scrutinizes through his microscope. But I fear the microscope which has been used this evening would be a faulty instrument for rigorously scientific work—instead of revealing all details in a cold, impartial light its lenses have a kindly and charitable selectiveness which make up in friendly warmth what they lack in impartial "resolving power" and "definition".