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his peers. After all, and at best, the subjects, liiauy of them, will 
have a hard time. What other animal than the horse do we per¬ 
mit to live only away from native pastures, to die only in service 
as we say, with the harness on; to die as I saw one lately after 
the light of day had gone out, prostrate between a street railroad 
track and a bank of ice, while demon-like almost the monstrous 
omnibus seemed to press with peculiar malignity upon him. 
In view of the purposes of this institution whose commence¬ 
ment is here observed, and recurring to the motto, were there such 
a thing as an obverse of the divine countenance and were a legend 
needed to encircle it, I can imagine, gentlemen of the graduating 
class, none more fitting than this motto. But wear it next your 
hearts as you go forth, and the pride of Alma Mater in you and 
you in her, shall be continued and reciprocal. You want from 
me no argument in defense of your position. At the bar of an 
intelligent public opinion you stand rather in the attitude of 
prosecutors than of defendants. By virtue of your profession 
you arraign cruelty and narrow-minded tyranny towards a kind 
that cannot rebel and exact charters, and who are not given to 
bloody revolution. You are to help them, and yet your names 
will not be gazetted or your shoulders adorned. 
“A power to guess at gratitude uutold, 
Aud hold it guessed as precious gold,” 
is more necessary to you than to the physicians of speaking man. 
Yet who does not value one expression of the kindlier emotion en¬ 
rolled in the eye more than many delivered from the voluble 
tongue ? 
“ On shining orbs is writ the praise, 
Of Him who rules them in the skies, 
Unsullied, uncoufused aud clear, 
Unseen by sordid human eyes.” 
If you are the fortunate possessors of the power mentioned, 
every epithet conceived in ignorance and used by the vulgar must 
fall harmless at your feet. The title “ horse doctor ” will sound 
as one fitted to arouse in you pride and pity for those who may 
fancy it to be a term of opprobrium. To watch the advancement 
of science and to apply it wherever it is applicable for the 
