THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. IX, No. 108.] DECEMBER 1836. [New Series, No. 48. 
LETTERS TO A STUDENT. 
By A. B. 
[Our readers must kindly accept a lecture from an old cor- 
respondent, under a feigned signature, in lieu of the drier one 
on animal pathology, which usually occupies this situation in 
our periodical. In the first number, however, of the ensuing 
volume these lectures shall be resumed, and, we trust, continued 
without interruption. It was a new and a difficult, although a 
highly important and interesting, division of these lectures, which 
we were approaching; and, if there were no other excuse that 
could have been pleaded, a little hesitation and delay will not 
be very severely censured. 
As to our valued friend — our present locum tetiens, well worthy 
of a better office — his lecture contains some exceedingly good 
hints on which the student will do well to ponder. He promises 
us “a bundle of these letters. ” We agree to his terms. We 
will not “ erase any thing;” he shall have “ the whole bill.” 
We will “bear his praise and forgive his censure;” and we will, 
“ for the present, suppress his name” — a name that we shall not 
be ashamed of when “ somebody shall publicly accuse us of 
writing these letters ourselves.”] 
No. I. — College Conduct. 
UPON the manner in which you spend your time at the College 
depends much of the gloom and sunshine of your after life. The 
purposes for which you are there should not be forgotten even for 
an hour. Your residence is so short, that a single day given to 
amusement or idleness may be the loss of all the professional 
skill which that day's labour ought to have produced. 
In all congregations of young men there are some who lead 
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