412 THE MEANS OF PREVENTION. 



would think the latter ! The people can rightly hold you responsi- 

 ble for the public acts of your subordinates. 



In the Boston " Sunday Globe," of some two weeks since, ap- 

 peared an article upon your Veterinary Department, which I make 

 bold to assert was a disgrace to Harvard College, and outdoes the 

 advertisements of any of the noted medical humbugs and fraudu- 

 lent hospitals of quacks in Boston or any other city. 



This advertisement reads thus : 



SICK HORSES' PARADISE. 



THE HARTAED UNIVERSITY VETERINARY HOSPITAL. 



Accommodations for Patients in the New Building on Village Street. 

 Pronounced Success of the Latest Harvard Enterprise. 



" ' Our borders is wery strict 'ere, sir, not to hadmit any one vith- 

 out permission. 'Fraid you'll 'ave to wait for the doctor, sir.' 



" Thus spoke one of the grooms at the Harvard University Yet- 

 erinary Hospital to a ' Globe ' reporter yesterday, when he rang at 

 the office-door. 



" ' Both of the doctors be avay just now, sir, but we hexpects 

 them back directly ' — and at that moment Dr. Charles P. Lyman, 

 F. R. C. V. S., the professor in veterinary medicine and chief sur- 

 geon of the hospital, drove up and alighted from his English dog- 

 cart, while his English driver conducted his English horse into the 

 stable. Once inside, and the air of this excellent branch of fair 

 Harvard is oppressively English. It has been established a little over 

 a year, and actual work in the department, at least the hospital part, 

 has been in progress only since August 10th. Such an institution 

 is a novelty in Boston." 



" Such an institution is a novelty " ; indeed it is, gentlemen — a 

 " novelty " which, as an American citizen, I am very sorry to see 

 engrafted upon Massachusetts soil. 



Again, in the Boston " Herald " is an advertising column headed 

 " Horses, Carriages, etc." This column has become noted all over 

 the United States for advertisements of the very worst set of "horse 

 sharps " that infest any city in the country. Somewhere we have 

 heard that " a man is known by the company he keeps." You will 

 learn yet, gentlemen, that " 'twon't pay " to have an advertisement 

 of your school appear, as it does, in such a column and in company 

 with such advertisements. 



What does it show you, gentlemen ? It should demonstrate to 

 you the utter unfitness of the man for the place whom you have 

 honored with the position of head of this department. 



