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need stables for at least fifty sick horses at once, which should be 
built with the prospect of enlarging in the future. In this hos¬ 
pital we will take sick animals to board, and it in part will be self- 
supporting, but there wdl be many animals with diseases tedious 
to treat, which will be abandoned by their owners,-and we need a 
fund for the support of such cases. There are many cases of 
disease among the horses of poor carters, which are readily cura¬ 
ble, but the owner cannot afford the fees of a veterinary 
surgeon, nor the expense of an animal standing idle and eating 
the food which its work should be paying for; these are the cases 
which furnish many of the examples of misery that the Society 
for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is called upon to alleviate. 
In many cases the driver is not naturally brutal, but at home 
there are wife and children to be supported, and the suffering 
beast is the best he can afford. We need a fund for the support 
of such animals, which will be judiciously sent us by the agents 
of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 
and by the practicing veterinary surgeons of the town. 
Such a fund will be a double charity—the suffering 
animal will be relieved, and the knowledge that it 
can be done without depriving a poor owner of his daily 
bread will induce the latter to be more charitable himself. We 
need a cattle dairy of at least fifty cows. This should be largely 
self-supporting after once established ; it wdl enable us to teach 
the student practical obstetrics and many of the details of cattle 
practice of which the usual veterinary graduate is absolutely igno¬ 
rant. We need dormitories for the students, where those from 
away can be comfortably lodged, and learn that their alma mater 
is their home for the time. For our veterinaiy students who are to 
give personal supervision to the animals in the hospital, it is es¬ 
sential ; for the entire University, it is a necessity. Harvard, 
Yale or Princeton alumni meet each other like Free Masons and 
though otherwise strangers, they become rapidly intimate over 
the past, present and future of their college, because they roomed 
in the same building, messed at the same table, and had the same 
associations; this feeling is absent in the alumni of the Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania, except, perhaps, among the medical 
