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follows: Gold medal of the Board of Trustees, for the student pass¬ 
ing the best general examination, to George Frederick Wescott, of 
Portland, Me. ; prize of the Alumni Association, a set of stand¬ 
ard veterinary works, for the second best general examination, 
to George Bass Blackman, of Murfreesboro, Tenn.; set of stand¬ 
ard veterinary works, for third best general examination to John 
Gregory Slee, of New York City ; Gold medal to the student 
passing the best practical examination before a committee of 
practitioners of New York and Brooklyn, to John Gregory Slee ; 
a case of instruments for the best written and defended paper 
before the Veterinary Medical Association, to Arthur Fanny 
Grover, New Brunswick, N. J. ; a case of instruments for the 
best prepared anatomical specimen for the museum, to John 
Victor Faddey, of Arlington, N. J. ; a free scholarship to the 
student of the class of ’98 passing the best general examination 
was awarded to J. F. Devine, of New York City. 
After more inspiring music, the valedictarian of the class, 
George B. Blackman, delivered a carefully prepared address, and 
then followed one of the most happy efforts that we have ever 
listened to, in the shape of an address to the graduates by the 
Rev. Findsay Parker, D.D., of Brooklyn, who said that instead 
of delivering a sermon or making a set speech he intended to 
indulge in a go-as-you-please, and he went for about three-quar¬ 
ters of an hour to the delight of everybody, sending the audience 
from the hall in the happiest frame of mind. 
Upon the stage were Prof. Faneuil D. Weisse, President of the 
Board of Trustees ; Prof. W. J. Coates, Dean/r<9 tern.; Hamilton 
Busby, Dr. Fero}^ Satterlee, and Dr. W. B. E. Miller, of the 
Trustees ; Profs. J. F. Robertson, Roscoe R. Bell, J. E. Ryder, 
F. H. Friedberg, J. B. Stine, H. D. Hanson, Herbert Neher and 
G. G. Van Mater, of the Faculty; Dr. C. E. Clayton, President 
of the College Association; Dr. F. H. Howard, of Boston, Presi¬ 
dent of the Alumni Association ; Dr. W. Herbert Fowe, of New 
Jersey; Charles Burden, of New York City; Dr. George H. 
Berns, of Brooklyn, and Rev. Adolphus T. Sicker. 
OBITUARY. 
J. D. Rutherford, M.D.,V.S.—On January nth, this 
well-known veterinarian died suddenly from rheumatism of the 
heart. At the time of his death he was Dean of the Faculty of 
the Veterinary Department of the Detroit College of Medicine, 
having succeeded the late Dr. Brenton in that capacity. He 
