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attempt to limit the place of experimentation is not. It 

 often happens that the place for carrying on an experi- 

 ment must be changed from one part of a building to 

 another, or from one place to another, and that quickly. 



Finally, such great institutions as the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology are prohibited from obtaining a 

 license at all. 



26 (c) No persons except graduates of a legally 



27 chartered college or university, having power to 



28 confer degrees in medicine, and such assistants 



29 who shall not be students of medicine, as are 



30 actually necessary, shall be present at such ex- 



31 periment or allowed to witness the same; but 



32 nothing herein contained shall be construed to 



33 prevent any of the agents described in section 



34 three of this act from being present at and wit- 



35 nessing the whole or any part of such experiment. 



Paragraph c leaves a door open - - probably not intended 

 by the petitioners. We believe it was intended to exclude 

 students of medicine from being present at any animal 

 experiment, but by its wording it does not do so ; for, 

 provided that they hold any degree from a chartered col- 

 lege or university having also the power to confer 

 degrees in medicine they maybe present in any num- 

 bers and as often as they please, and as the operator 

 may allow. 



In other words, any graduate of any department of Har- 

 vard College --not alone of the Medical School --may 

 be present at such experiments, while no graduate of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, no matter how 

 eminent, may have the same privilege. 



On the other hand, an agent of any society for the pre- 

 vention of cruelty to animals of such caliber as the offi- 



