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COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS. 
out arsenic, and no health without thyroid. Arsenic is local¬ 
ized in the substance of the nucleus of the cells, the nucleine. 
—( Acad . de Med.) 
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS. 
KANSAS CITY VETERINARY CORTEGE. 
The ninth annual commencement and banquet of this insti¬ 
tution was held at the Midland Hotel, Kansas City, March 14, 
at 8 p. M., when the following gentlemen received the diploma 
of the college : Robert H. Carswell, Edward Makins, Jr., Claude 
M. McFarland, Willis H. Meadors, David C. Moberly, Charles 
A. Monney, Joseph W. Parker, Horace E. Rice, Wendell A. 
Knight, D. V. S., and William Folsetter, M. R. C. V. S. At 
the banquet a large number of the faculty and friends of the 
college were gathered, where, after the temporal man had been 
satisfied, the intellectual appetite was brought into activity by 
that prince of toastmasters, that painstaking, hard-working, con¬ 
scientious and devoted veterinarian, Prof. Stewart, introducing 
Dr. I. J. Wolf, who delivered the faculty address. The diplomas 
were presented by Dr. C. J. Sillier and the class response was 
made by Dr. Joseph W. Parker. “ Comparative Medicine ” was 
the theme of Dr. H. C. Babcock, and u The Undergraduate ” 
was championed by Mr. Arthur Trickett. Hon. R. J. McFar¬ 
land spoke of the u Municipal Veterinarian,” while J. A. Me- 
Dane, Esq., dilated wisely upon u Veterinary Jurisprudence.” 
Dr. W. Ross Cooper spoke upon the “ Veterinarian and the 
Breeder,” Dr. Wm. Folsetter closing the enjoyable occasion by 
considering “ Veterinary Colleges.” 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
THE WAY TO DO IT. 
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, February 4, 1900. 
Editors American Veterinary Review: 
‘ ‘ Do I sleep ? Do I dream ? 
Do I wonder and doubt? 
Are tilings what they seem? 
Or are visions about ? ’ ’ 
Is the veterinary college a failure ? 
Or is the horse doctor played out? 
He came from God’s country. I don’t know if he had a 
