SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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and the horseless carriage, if you want, have done their ruthless 
sifting among its offspring, and the time is coming when this 
college may fittingly write above its doors the classic proverb, 
modified for the occasion : Sic transit gloria collegia 
The doctor concludes his article by saying that in the future 
“ it will not be what we can do but what we know ! ” I heartily 
wish it would be that way as I am one of those who find happi¬ 
ness in the pursuit of knowledge. But my experience has been 
the other way. In a profession so practical as ours, and in a 
country so commercial as ours, knowledge has no intrinsic value 
unless it can be applied with a direct and benefiting result. 
To sum up, I will say : I don’t believe that any invention of 
man is threatening the existence of the horse, this marvelous 
handiwork of creation ; I don’t believe that professional veter¬ 
inary work will ever reap millions nor that pure veterinary knowl¬ 
edge will be adequately esteemed and rewarded by American in¬ 
stitutions. But I do believe, that the heavy depression, the 
cruel ups and downs which many of us have experienced during 
the last few years will have a most wholesome effect, as they 
were a natural reaction against a too sudden rise of the American 
veterinary profession, unprecedented in the veterinary history 
of any other country. I do believe that young men with blood 
of decent ancestors in their veins, who are bright and well 
educated, who love the horse, the dog and the animal creation, 
should find the veterinary profession the most sympathetic. And 
I do believe that the proper growth of the American veterinary 
profession is yet to come, that if the time is ripe the right man 
will find the right place, be it as a practitioner, as a sanitary in¬ 
spector, as experimenter or teacher, and that in time not dis¬ 
tant he will again receive such pecuniary reward as to enable 
him to live an honorable and useful life. 
Olof Schwarzkopf. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAE ASSO’N. 
THE LITERARY PROGRAMME. 
We present below a revised list of the papers to be presented 
at the Nashville meeting, corrected by Secretary Stewart up to 
July 24th, and we submit that it is a brilliant array of subjects 
and authors : 
Dr. Leonard Pearson, ‘‘The Disposition of the Flesh of 
Tuberculous Animals.” 
