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them, a monument to their memories, for their faithful zeal, un¬ 
selfish spirits and sacrificing hearts. 
Ere I present you this history in detail, I would say that I 
have no apologies to make because it must come to you in a partial 
state of completion. For one full year I have labored with as 
indifferent and uninterested a body of fellow-graduates as almost 
any school could produce, and in no place, no State, no city, has 
it arisen to such sad proportions as in the home and birthplace of 
our noble school. Exhausting the powers of the post, the tele¬ 
phone and telegraph, and personal intercourse ; using the parents, 
friends and guardians, and sometimes strangers to even my fellow- 
aluinni, I feel that on my part nothing has been left undone, and 
I offer you in gladness and joy the fruits of my pleasant work. 
It will be unnecessary here, among you all, to say that our 
alma mater’s aim was good and true men—not many; and the 
results of her eight years’ work are 110 graduates, gathered from 
seventeen States and territories and the West Indies. Her home 
and birthplace lias well appreciated her ability in educating men 
for the profession, for she has sent 47 of this number, who have 
returned to her as workers in the old field but new work of veter¬ 
inary medicine and surgery, especially the latter; for the former 
has long lived in a crude way among empirics, cow leeches and 
blacksmiths. Massachusetts comes next with 17, while the Key¬ 
stone State follows as a good third with her 12; then comes that 
always-to-be-depended-upon State, New Jersey, with 11, while the 
remaining 23 are scattered from the rugged shores of Maine to 
the golden shores of California. Making a more concise geo¬ 
graphical distribution, we find the Eastern States with 27, the Mid¬ 
dle States with 73, while the Western sends us but 10 and the 
West Indies 3. Following up another enumeration, we find the 
class of ’76 composed of 17 ; ’77 with 4 ; ’78 with 6 ; ’79 with 8 ; 
’80 with 18 ; ’81 with 18; ’82 with 17 ; and ’83 with 22. 
A few of those who have entered the profession through our 
alma mater have turned their attention to other pursuits, so that 
what I may say hereafter must apply only to the workers in the 
science. With but few exceptions our men have been peculiarly 
successful and are enjoying lucrative practices, much personal re- 
