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slot in the latter affords adjustment straight with, or angular to, 
the shank by screwing or turning shank home to the perpendicu¬ 
lar or to the angular surface on the projection back of the blade- 
holder. 
Users of floats from this description will at once recognize 
the convenience of this new tool in offering in one piece, a uni¬ 
versal float in any adjustment, equal if not superior to the separ¬ 
ate floats or the several parts forming the so-called combined 
floats heretofore in use, an article of this kind, the several parts 
of which are together, thus providing against the inconvenience 
of loss of one part or another. 
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS. 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COEEEGE. 
The twenty-second annual commencement exercises of this 
college were held in Chickering Hall, i8th Street and Fifth 
Avenue, New York City, on Thursday evening, March 25, and 
the hall was well filled by the friends of the graduates and the 
college. The exercises were opened with an overture by Lander's 
orchestra, after which prayer was offered by the Rev. Adolphus 
T. Sieker. Prof. W. J. Coates, Dean pro tern, recommended to 
the Board of Trustees the names of twenty-three gentlemen 
who had fulfilled the requirements of the faculty, whereupon 
Prof. Faneuil D. Weisse, President of the Trustees, conferred 
the diploma of the college upon the following graduates: 
George Bass Blackman, Murfreesboro, Tenn. ; Harry Went¬ 
worth Bellman, Jr., Newark, N. J. ; George De Witt Boice, 
Griggstown, N. J. ; Horace Winfield Boyd, Uewistown, Mont. ; 
Arthur Uauny Grover, New Brunswick, N. J. ; Bernard Gunther, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Howard Suydam Holdenby, Ridgewood, N.J. ; 
James Grant Hope, M.D.C., Chicago, Ill. ; Ralph Collyer Jenks, 
Sing Sing, N. Y. ; John Victor Uaddey, Arlington, N. J. ; Otto 
Rudolph Deis, Newark, N. J. ; James Edward Masterson, New 
York, N. Y. ; John Phillip Messer, New York, N. Y. ; John 
Joseph Murray, Nyack, N. Y. ; Thomas John Ogle, New York, 
N. Y. ; John Gregory Slee, New York, N. Y. ; Harry Balthasar 
Shugar, Lebanon, Pa. ; Thomas Francis Smith, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. ; George Stevens, South Ryegate, Vt. ; Franklin Smith, 
South Orange, N. J, ; C. Chauncey Tietjens, San Francisco, Cal. ; 
John Thomas, South Ryegate, Vt.: George Frederick Wescott, 
Portland, Me. 
The prizes, distributed by Prof. Friedberg, were awarded as 
