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PHILADELPHIA VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
courses (we presume of lectures oniy) are for ever free to 
graduates. 
It is proposed to commence a short course of lectures at 
present, the first to be delivered by Dr. Jennings on Wed- 
nesdav evening, January 26th: followed bv Dr. Corbyn, 
February 3d; and by Dr. Tegtmier, February l6th. The fee 
for this partial course was not stated. 
W e will endeavour to hear these lectures, and will give you 
our impression of the force of the present faculty. 
It is believed that there are students now waiting to avail 
themselves of the facilities thus afforded to acquire the 
veterinary art. We have reason to believe this faculty will 
make capital teachers, and it is not necessary to say that they 
are veterinary surgeons of the very best stamp and highest 
qualifications. So far as their professional abilities are con¬ 
cerned. we want no better warrant of success. But the 
friends of the institution should comprehend that much more 
depends upon the student numerically. He is the only 
source of revenue, the exponent of successful management, 
and, as an alumnus, the sign-board of the only true road to a 
thorough veterinary education. Every effort should be 
directed to secure, as soon as possible, classes of students, 
among whom may be found some one or more whose early 
acquirements, whose present aid, and whose future promise, 
may deserve gratuitous education at the hands of the faculty. 
We feel safe in the generosity and self-sacrificing attributes 
of such gentlemen as are now working hard and contributing 
their time and talents to the elevation of their profession, and 
struggling for the general benefit of mankind. 
It will, therefore, require no appeal from the pen of “ Little 
Pills”* to the veterinary surgeons of the country at large for 
the purpose of arresting their attention to the inauguration of 
a college in the city of Philadelphia, and to demand their 
professional countenance, as well as aid, to the enterprise. 
The veterinary associations elsewhere, and the many agricul¬ 
tural and breeding societies, should come forward and publicly 
recognise the Veterinary College of Philadelphia. It is for 
the general welfare of the art, and the personal respectability 
of its members, that this should be done. Professional 
* 
courtesy also demands it. Come out, gentlemen, and like 
one of your colleagues (C. C. Grice, V.S.), nobly and gene¬ 
rously welcome the Veterinary College ! 
Most heartily and sincerely do we congratulate our trans¬ 
atlantic cousins upon the step they have taken, and 
cordially wish them all success. If there be any point on 
* The Sobriquet of the writer. 
