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THE VETERINARIAN, NOVEMBER 1, 1857. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat, 
Cicero. 
OPENING OF THE SCHOLASTIC SESSION 1857-58, 
AT THE 
ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE, LONDON. 
The scholastic session of the Royal Veterinary College 
opened on Monday, the 5th ult., a fortnight before the 
ordinary time of later years, and more than a month before 
what was wont to be the case in days gone by. Thus it is 
evident that at Alma Mater there is no manifestation of either 
senility or decay ; but contrariwise, of activity and praise- 
worthy energy. The entrance-fees for the instruction given 
there, has also been raised. This we do not regret ; rather 
we would say, we rejoice to know it is so, since the result 
will be a higher tone given to the education of the student of 
veterinary medicine, and this will almost of itself necessitate 
an extension of his curriculum of study; while a still 
better educated class of young men than even now exists, 
will be induced to enter the profession, by which it cannot 
fail to be in the end advantaged. 
The introductory address was delivered by Professor 
Morton to an audience far exceeding the usual number. 
It was extremely pleasing to see so many of the older mem- 
bers of the profession present, several of whom were accom- 
panied by their sons ; and we can conceive, in some measure, 
what their feelings must have been on looking back thirty or 
forty years, to the time when they first entered on their studies. 
Since then they had mingled with the world and encountered 
its smiles and its frowns. They had done battle with its 
difficulties, and had overcome them ; although, perhaps, they 
may not have escaped altogether unscathed. It was also 
gratifying to hear those who remembered the Institution in 
