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PROFESSIONAL TOPICS. 
PROFESSIONAL TOPICS, 
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
On Wednesday evening, March 5, the fourth commencement 
exercises of the American Veterinary College were held in Lyric 
Hall, Fourth Avenue and Forty-second Street, New York City. 
A large and appreciative audience crowded the hall to overflowing. 
I he exercises were presided over by the President of the Board 
of Trustees, Samuel Marsh, Esq. Upon the platform were the 
faculty of the college and the Board of Trustees, Prof. James 
Law, of Cornell University, other eminent members of the medi¬ 
cal profession, and the Bev. Hr. Dubois, who opened the exer¬ 
cises with prayer. Prof. F. D. Weisse, M.D., Secretary of the 
Board of Trustees, read the annual report of the college setting 
forth the work which had been done during the year just past, 
and in which time lectures, didactic and clinical, had been deliv¬ 
ered by the professors to a class of forty-two matriculants. He con¬ 
trasted the success attending the efforts put forth in 1878 with 
that of previous years, and assured his hearers that the Board of 
Trustees were highly gratified with the growing prosperity of the 
college. 
President Marsh then conferred upon the graduates, R. A. 
McLean, Brooklyn, N. Y.; T. B. S. Rogers, Newark, N. J.; C. C. 
Cattanach, N. Y. City; W. B. E. Miller, Hightstown, N. J.; A. D. 
Carman, Brooklyn, N. Y.; J. J. Smith, Chambersburgh, Pa.; Win. 
H. Kleindopf, Middletown, Pa.; and T. J. Herr, N. Y. City, the 
degree of Doctor of Veterinary Surgery. Also the adeundem 
degree of D.V.S. upon T. S. Outerbridge, V.S., of Bermuda. 
Prof. A. W. Stein, M.D., then awarded the Alumni Association 
prize for the best general examination, consisting of Fleming’s 
Sanitary Science and Police, elegantly bound; the gold medal 
offered by the New York State Veterinary Society for the best 
practical examination, and honorable mention from the professor 
of surgical pathology for the best written examination in surgi¬ 
cal pathology, to R. A. McLean. The prize given by the profes- 
