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THE VETERINARIAN, NOVEMBER 1, 1855. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. 
Cicero. 
COMMENCEMENT OE THE SCHOLASTIC SESSION AT THE 
ROYAL YETERINARY COLLEGE, LONDON. 
The commencement of se another” Session is an event 
looked forward to, both by the teacher and the taught, 
with some degree of anxiety. Each is conscious of the 
responsibility that attaches itself to the position in which he is 
placed, and having to buckle on the armour afresh, he feels 
as though new duties devolved upon him, and he cannot 
boast as he does, who, after having gotten the victory, throws 
it off. Yet, nothing daunted, each prepares himself for the 
combat with a determination to succeed, sustained by 
hope, who lends her cheering aid to courage. 
It may be that some are placed in this situation for the 
first time, and then the seeming difficulties to be overcome, 
render them doubly solicitous, since, to a person of rightly- 
constituted mind, the degree of apprehension will be com- 
mensurate with the weight and importance of the subject in 
which he is engaged. Not that this will damp his ardour ; 
on the contrary, it will awaken in him a determination 
that no opportunity shall be lost for the acquirement of those 
principles which, being implanted in the mind, like good 
seed, will, after due culture, <£ spring up and bring forth 
fruit.” This will apply, in part, both to the preceptor and 
the pupil ; yet it may be that the student thinks his is the 
more arduous task. But he knows little of what his in- 
structor has to contend with. He cannot estimate the 
amount of research involved, and the nicety of discrimination 
that is called for in the disentanglement of truth from error, 
so that in the performance of his prevenient duties, he does 
not promulgate that which is incorrect, thus leading the 
minds of others astray. It is imperative on him that he be 
