American Veterinary Review, 
JUNE, 1890. 
EDITORIAL 
“Be Gentlemen.” —National peculiarities in closing curriculums of medical 
and veterinary schools—Commencement exercises—their preparations—students 
take the burden of them—college officers reserve but one part—selection of the 
orator —this is the hardest of all—our opportunities to hear many of them—now 
a treat, often a disappointment—Prof. McEachran’s, of Montreal Veterinary Col¬ 
lege—its superiority and proper application—full of wisdom and very apropos — 
an excellent method of elevating the profession—admirable advice conveyed in 
few words—“Be gentlemen; live, talk and dress as such”—the part of the ad¬ 
dress as given to the graduates of the Department of Comparative Medicine of 
McGill University (Montreal Veterinary College). 
“Be Gentlemen.” —The educational institutions of every 
nation have their peculiar methods of testifying their interest 
in the occurrence of the periodical events which form the 
waymarks of the student life of their matriculates, and espec¬ 
ially when the point has been reached which marks the com¬ 
pletion of their term of devotion to the scholastic curriculum 
which they have been employed in mastering. Thus, on this 
continent, as in some parts of Europe, the commencement ex¬ 
ercises form events of the most anxious anticipation, the more 
particularly as the necessary preparations for the occasion 
must be completed at a time when lectures, hard studies, and 
the final rigid examinations are scarcely over. 
These commencement ceremonies and the eclat of their 
brilliant performance become, therefore, an object of absorb¬ 
ing interest, and impose the necessity of much hard work on 
the part of the organizing and managing parties. There is 
