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College, the inchoate graduates, their late fellow students, and 
nnraerous friends. The platform was gay with floral decorations, 
the graceful gifts of many friends, and there was inspiriting 
music by Cappa’s band, who probably included a sufficient 
amount of galop compositions to give consistency to the veter¬ 
inary assemblage. 
The proceedings were punctually inaugurated by the entrance 
of the Board of Trustees and members of the Faculty, followed 
by the graduating students, to the strains of Steinhagen’s 
“ Monarch ” March, and when the audience had become quietly 
seated in their respective places, the proceedings were duly intro¬ 
duced by Rev. Dr. Weston, in an appropriate invocation of the 
Divine blessing. 
Following the official report of the condition and progress of 
the college, which was presented by the Dean of the Faculty, 
and in which the important and unique advantages to be secured 
by patronizing the institution were duly set forth, the principal 
business of the meeting was consummated by the presentation of 
the diplomas, which invested the graduating class with the 
honorable degree of Doctor of Veterinary Surgery. The 
ceremony was gracefully performed by S. Marsh, Esq., President 
of the Board of Trustees, and when it was concluded, the follow¬ 
ing gentlemen had become lawfully authorized to supplement 
their signatures with the comprehensive initials “D.V.S.” 
Daniel Caswell Ashley, Mass. ; Edgar Miles Beckley, Conn.; 
Lewis Maires Bignell, Pa.; Seaman Bradley, N. Y.; Charles 
Edward Bridge, Pa.; John Sheperd Candee, N. Y. ; John James 
Cattanach, N. Y.; Edward Alden Child, Fla. ; Alphonse Joseph 
Dodin, N. Y.; Thomas Henry Doyle, N. Y.; Francis Henry 
Flagge, N. Y.; Frederick William Hopkins, Ireland; Robert 
Corwin Jones, N. Y.; Charles Kuehne, Ph.G., N. J.; William 
Joseph Magee, N. Y.; Benjamin Franklin Minich, Pa.; Theo¬ 
dore Wilson Moyer, Pa.; Maurice O’Connell, Mass.; Aaron 
William Radley, Pa.; Archibald Kay Robertson, Iowa; Henry 
Schmidt, Jr., Ohio; Andrew Strange, N. Y.; Milton Rauch 
Trumbower, Ills.; George Gomez Van Mater, N. Y.; James 
Abram Walrath, N. Y. ; George Lewis Warner, N. Y.; Robert 
Weir, Mass.; Albert C. Young, Utah. 
