COLLEGE CONDUCT. 
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You must shun all these butterflies. Puppyism is contagious. 
Mere foppery in dress is not, indeed, a vice ; it wears off in all those 
who arrive at years of discretion ; but neither old nor young in- 
dulge in it who are capable of doing much good. It indicates 
an empty head ; it may, and often does, exist in combination 
with vicious habits ; but it is never seen in combination with the 
acquirements of solid and laborious application. If you do your 
duty, the drudgery in which you must be engaged, both as a 
pupil and as a practitioner, cannot be performed in the trumpery 
of a dancing-master. 
Beware of extremes. If you are determined not to be vicious, 
yet you need not be a methodist; and there is a wide difference 
between foppery and slovenliness. Be good, but never speak of 
virtue. Let your dress be plain, orderly, and, like your manner, 
unaffected. Avoid pedantry as much as you would avoid igno- 
rance. Let your associates be those who have been longest at 
study ; those who have been under a practitioner before their 
arrival at College ; those who must, can, and will depend upon 
their own exertions for their bread. 
Above all things, be industrious. Rise early ; never miss a 
lecture; visit all the patients several times a day; keep short 
notes of the cases; ask questions about them, consult your books, 
and compare the description with the patient. Dissect night 
and day, until you have seen all that anatomy can shew. You 
will spend a good deal of time in reading ; yet it is better to read 
little and understand all, than to read much and understand only 
a part. Consult the College library. Read all the books : of 
those which cannot be purchased, make short abstracts ; and quote 
what is useful from those that are not worth purchasing. Get 
a few quires of paper bound into a book ; and in this record 
cases, abstracts, quotations, and any other professional matter 
worthy of remembrance. At first you will write much nonsense, 
and record much that may not deserve record. Never mind 
that : you can burn the book when it becomes useless. It 
may be useful for future reference, and you can hardly fill it 
without learning to think, to know, to write, and to remember 
better than if you had trusted all to memory. 
You must have a library of your own. The principal works 
you require are those of Percivall, Blaine, and Youatt; some 
medical works and dictionaries on anatomy, surgery, practice of 
physic, physiology, chemistry, agriculture, and stable economy. 
In the French I can recommend Vatel, Girard, and D’Arboval. 
You should take in, at least, one of the French periodicals, as 
well as The Veterinarian. Our own Journal must on no 
account be omitted. The published numbers contain an im- 
