DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



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Students and Alumni: Realizing it was becoming more manifestly 

 evident each year that courses already included in the curriculum or de- 

 manding recognition of veterinary colleges lacked the time essential for 

 adequate instruction, this division from the beginning pioneered in de- 

 manding an entrance requirement of fifteen units together with four 

 years of uuder-graduate work. In the face of a competition incident to 

 lack of age, our higher standards of entrance requirements and a longer 

 course, we have demonstrated an ability to prepare men the equal 

 of any in competitive examination, and equally efficient as practition- 

 ers, showing at the same time a steady consistent growth in the number 

 of students registered annually. 



Our graduates, though numerically few, serve to demonstrate the di- 

 versified field of opportunity and bid fair, through the value of their 

 industry, to return substantial dividend upon the investment by the 

 State. In the appended table is shown the number of students by classes 

 from year to year, and graduates accredited to the division together 

 with vocational occupations. 



