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THE VETERINARIAN, MARCH 1 , 1834 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.—C icero. 
On the 28th of January, the usual annual dinner was given 
by the pupils of the Veterinary College to their teachers and 
examiners. The attendance of the pupils was numerous, and 
their general appearance and conduct evinced the giowing re¬ 
spectability of our profession; but we do not recollect to have 
seen so few of the magnates (Messrs. Erodie, Cxreen, and Mayo 
comprised the whole), and the practitioners were very thinly 
scattered. 
The dinner was good—the wine rather better than usual the 
stewards attentive—the chairman. Sir Astley Cooper, in good 
health, and Mr. Coleman looked as well as he did ten years ago; 
and yet there was a flatness in the whole affair. There were 
none of those flights of pleasantry from the President, which 
used to set the table in a roar—no bandying of jests which 
wounded not, between the friends of many a year no laboured 
encomiums on our art by “ the invited/’ and u flights of imagi¬ 
nation over new continents of science rich with inexhaustible 
treasures but there was a general coldnessand formality, which 
an enemy would have said ct was devised to set a gloss on faint 
deeds and hollow welcomes —and, whether it be a good or a 
bad thing to record, the meeting broke up early, and without the 
youngsters having their hour or two’s carousing after the old ones 
were gone. 
The old toasts were given, and the old speeches made, but 
formal and short, with two or three exceptions which it will be 
our duty to notice. 
The President introduced a new toast, “ The Medical Examin¬ 
ing* Committee.” He said that it was admirably constituted 
that it contained some of the best anatomists and physiologists 
in the world, by whom the knowledge of general anatomy and 
physiology which the candidate for a diploma possessed might 
be best and most surely appreciated : and that it contained, like- 
