American Veterinary Review. 
MARCH, 1881. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
NON NOBIS SOLUM. 
ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF THE 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
By Jerome Buck, Esq. 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Gentlemen of the 
Graduating Class: 
The beautiful, unselfish and appropriate motto of your college, 
non nobis solum, fully expresses the boundless and hearty views, 
that have given vitality, stability and success to this humane in¬ 
stitution of learning. Not for us alone ! is the key note that 
has touched the tenderest chords of human sympathy and aroused 
in responsive expression, a higher humanity and a more exalted 
endeavor. No such enlightened and extended generosity has 
softened the stern features of any previous age, as proposed by 
the motto non nobis solum. The exquisite yet enervating refine¬ 
ments of the splendid and sensuous existence of Greek philosophy 
and art rarely took in its soft dalliance the welfare of the animal 
