VETFRINARY EXHIBITS AT THE WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXHIBITION. 
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from the standpoint of agriculture, sanitary or military science, 
a subject of essential and fundamental use to the nation, hence 
the schools should logically have premises in keeping with their 
recognized importance. 
With each school extensive botanical gardens were shown, 
where students might see growing forage plants ot all kinds, as 
well also as those of a toxic character. The buildings are in 
keeping with the grounds and the national sense of a useful¬ 
ness of veterinary science, the photographs showing them to 
be massive, substantial and tasteful, while the detailed plans 
showed careful arrangement, with a view to convenient and 
valuable working. Classes were shown at work in commodious 
rooms, with all essential material and apparatus at hand, in such 
subjects as anatomy, physiology, histology, zootechnics, sur¬ 
gery, clinics, etc. 
Bound in convenient form were exhibits by both schools of 
each institution from its foundation, with detailed plans and 
measurements of all buildings, a detailed history of the teach¬ 
ing staff, the curriculum of each school, minutely detailed, 
giving the subject of lecture and name of lecturer for each day 
throughout the entire course. 
In keeping with all this, it was but logical that some exhibit 
should be made of the immediate fruits of so well endowed an 
institution. We have noted above that the teaching staff in 
each institution had be given in detail throughout the schools’ 
entire career, and among them stand, of course, many of the 
greatest names in veterinary science, both present and past. 
Literature is the greatest test of the ability of a teacher, 
since to be a successful teacher, he must be an ardent, intelli¬ 
gent student, and be able to impress the results of his labors 
upon his pupils, interesting them and leading them into enthusi¬ 
astic study. Such men write and record their observations. 
To aspire to the name of teacher without showing good evi¬ 
dence of having studied one’s science enthusiastically and ob¬ 
serving some facts, be they ever so small, which are worthy of 
record, is weak, low and pitiable. 
