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AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. * 
Trustees, the Faculty, and a number of invited guests entered the 
hall by one entrance, while the body of graduates marched in 
by another. 
On the platform, besides the officers of the institution, seats 
were occupied by Mr. Clarke Bell, the orator of the evening, 
Rev. B. B. Tyler, who kindly officiated in the opening and clos¬ 
ing exercises, the Japanese Consul, and numerous eminent 
guests. 
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After the opening prayer, the ceremony of conferring the 
degrees was conducted in the usual form by the President of the 
Board of Trustees, Samuel Marsh, Esq., and the following gentle¬ 
men became recipients of the diploma of the College: 
Edwin Milton Barnes, of Kenosha, Wis. ; Tiieodore Birdsall, 
of New York City, N. Y.; George Bowers, D.V.S., of Brook¬ 
lyn, IS. Y.; Wessales Morrison Brodhead, of Media, Pa. ; Abra¬ 
ham Lincoln Brown, of Stamford, Ct.; Robert Fletcher Burleigh, 
B.S., of Franklin, N. H.; Martin Cushing, of Joliet, Ills.; Wil¬ 
liam Dimoud, of Peekskill, N. Y. ; George Wetsell Dodin, of 
Mendham, N. J.; Hugh Francis Doris, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Ed¬ 
ward W. Douglass, D.Y.S., of Brooklyn, N. Y.; William Jest 
Elliot, of New Brighton, N. Y.; Owen William Finley, of Rock' 
ville, Ct.; Jacob Frederick Foelker, of Allentown, Pa.; Christo¬ 
pher Horseman, of Mount Yernon, N. Y.; Samuel Hamilton 
Kent, of Cadiz, Ohio ; Honorb Francois Laine, of Narajas, Cuba; 
William Robert Jay Mitchell, of New York City, N. Y.; James 
McCaffrey, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; John Nicholson Navin, Jr., of In¬ 
dianapolis, Ind. ; Robert M. Navin, of Indianapolis, Ind.; Wil¬ 
liam H. Prophett, of Springfield, Mass; Stephen Longstroth 
Richards, of Farmingtown, Utah; Frederick Philip Rulil, of 
New York City, N. Y.; Julius Walter Sheibler, of Memphis, 
Tenn.; Philip Harvey Seltzer, of Lebanon, Pa.; George Michael 
Stock, of Baltimore, Md.; Dominick John O’Sullivan, of New 
Haven, Ct.; Alpheus Allen Tuttle, of West Haven, Ct.; John 
P. Wilson, of Hamilton, Ohio; Haru Taka Yokura, of Tokio, 
Japan. 
The gentlemen presented themselves as their names were 
called, and it cannot be doubted, will justify the college in com- 
