INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. 
better path. If you can impart information to each other 
never hesitate to do so ; this will not only benefit those 
around you but yourself also, for you will find that nothing 
will to the same extent impress facts upon your mind as en¬ 
deavouring to impart them to others. Encourage to renewed 
exertion those of your fellows who appear doubtful of success, 
and advise wdth them how to try again. Above all, afford 
that help the effect of which human calculation cannot 
limit—I mean the influence of good example. Avoid doing 
anything the copying of which may prove injurious to those 
who may be looking on^ and strive to do all the imitating 
of which may be attended with benefit. The effects of ex¬ 
ample is one of the great realities of this life, as Mr. Charles 
Dickens, a few days since at a meeting in Birmingham, said, 
Every man is one of the group of men impressible for good 
and impressible for evil, and it is in the external nature of 
things that he cannot really improve without in some degree 
improving other men ; and observe,” says Mr. Dickens, this is 
especially the case when he has improved himself in the teeth 
of adverse circumstances, for then his fellows and companions 
have assurance that he can have known no favouring condi¬ 
tions, and that they can do what he has done.” 
One word more. In all your actions, aspire to everything 
that appertains to and bespeaks the gentleman. In your 
general appearance avoid all forms of extravagance, seek not 
to be what is vulgarly termed horsey, or attempt on the 
other hand to play the dandy; for, recollect, that you are not 
on parade, but in the field of action. Cultivate a good and 
courteous address; a possession of this, as a passport of 
success, is advantageous in every status of society, and to the 
veterinary surgeon, believe me, it is no mean helpmate. Let 
your life be one continuous line of unblemished honour, and 
endeavour to so run your career that your fame may be un¬ 
sullied. 
‘‘ Respect thyself: 
Envy nor follow the base human worms 
That wriggle np to fortune; rather them 
Who keep the path of life where’er it lead, 
And scorn ill-gotten gains. If thou art low 
In earth’s great social pyramid, thy part 
Be an unnoticed one on life’s strange stage, 
Oft the mean character best actor needs ; 
For any fool can play the nobleman. 
While few can play the man. ’Tis better far 
To do the little greatly, than essay 
A mighty labour with a pigmy hand. 
Be patient and deserve, and thou shalt rise. 
The reaper—he must be a sower first; 
