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mongers, but to send his boy to the best veterinary school he 
may know, to thoroughly equip him for the practice of a profes¬ 
sion whose lines are continually being enlarged and where, 
though spreading to all domestic animals, the horse will ever 
remain the typical veterinary patient. 
SILVER ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN VET¬ 
ERINARY COLLEGE. 
During the week of the “Veterinary Jubilee” in New York 
next month the Alumni Association of the above-named college 
will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment 
of their alma mater. The record of that institution is such 
that her sons may well feel exultant on her attainment of the 
quarter-century mile-stone, and, while they will feel the keenest 
pride in the glory of her mature years and her splendid achieve¬ 
ments, the profession at large may rightfully join in the cele¬ 
bration, for her motto has ever been “ non nobis solum" and her 
grand work has thrown its influence upon veterinary education 
everywhere. 
In this connection we reprint an editorial from the June 
number of the Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary 
Archives: 
“A. V. C. Silver Anniversary. —The twenty-fifth anniversary of 
the establishment of a veterinary college in the United States is an event 
of no little importance in a profession the youngest of them all, and one 
that has moved with no uncertain steps to a recognized place among the 
higher vocations of man. 
“ The record of the American Veterinary College as a factor in higher 
veterinary education is a grand one, and fittingly adorns an institution 
that has sent forth so many worthy representatives of the profession. 
The chief director for many years has earned an international fame, and 
the school over which he has so worthily presided been accorded a rec¬ 
ognition abroad seldom given an American medical school.. Her gradu¬ 
ates, now exceeding six hundred and more, scattered all over our own 
land and dotting many parts of foreign soil, have contributed much to 
the elevation of the profession wherever they have set foot. 
“ Such an occasion should recall every dutiful son of this institution 
to the home of his alma mater and to join in the festivities of so mo- 
