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GLASGOW COLLEGE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE. 
But, forget not, while thou sow’st tliy seed. 
The sickle soon must follow, therefore sow 
Just only such as thou wouldst choose to reap. 
Use well the present hour—that young to be, 
For one to-day is worth a score to-morrows, 
Tliat so thou look not back on deedless days. 
Nor mourn a wasted youth.” 
Gentlemen, such is my advice to you; and whether your 
future course is destined to be long or short, after this manner, 
so far as I can judge, it should commence. And if it con¬ 
tinue to be thus conducted, its conclusion, at what time 
soever it arrives, will not be inglorious or unhappy. 
INTRODUCTORY LECTURE, DELIVERED TUES¬ 
DAY, OCTOBER 26 th, 1869, BY PROFESSOR 
R. C. MOFFAT, AT THE GLASGOW VETERI¬ 
NARY COLLEGE. 
Gentlemen, —In accordance with the custom of former 
years, the opening of a new session is made the occasion of 
an introductory lecture, and I have the honour this day to 
hid you welcome to this college, to inaugurate the commence¬ 
ment of another winter session. This day is to break the 
quiet of a six months’ vacation, and it is also to proclaim 
that your laborious studies are now to he resumed to fit 
you for your walk of life. To those gentlemen who have 
already attended the classes of this college, and who are now 
about to work their own advancement, and perhaps that of 
the profession generally, and whose well-known faces link 
the past with the present, allow me, in the name of your 
respected principal, the other professors, and myself, to bid 
you most heartily welcome hack again to the field of action 
of your vocation. To the junior students who for the first 
time enter this institution to begin their professional labours, 
permit me, as sincerely and heartily, to give them an earnest 
reception. That both classes of our students should each, in 
their turn, have given to them a careful, well-grounded, and 
intelligent acquaintance of the entire veterinary profession, 
is the sincere wish of all your professors, and that a brilliant 
after-career in life may be the destiny of all of you, is the 
fervent desire of your teachers. In entering a profession 
such as yours, where much responsibility is often cast upon 
your shoulders, there is one thing to be attained before all 
others, and that is, a good name. It is ever to be kept in 
