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AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
OPENING. 
The 3d of October at this institution was a gala day. The lecture 
room was filled to its utmost by members of the profession, students, 
and a few friends of the veterinary medicine. At 4 o’clock p. m., Prof. 
Veisse, as Secretary of the Board of Trustees, opened the exercises by 
giving the history of the College. After stating how, through legal dif¬ 
ficulties in the School where the faculty had successfully been engaged 
for 10 years, it had found it necessary to resign from the institution they 
had, properly speaking, raised to the position of an honored and re¬ 
spected college, and how satisfied of the results which had rewarded 
their efforts, the Professors had found themselves able to have a Board 
of Trustees duly organized, and how a legal character was obtained 
under the General Law of the State of New York—law under which 
other medical institutions were also organized, Prof. Veisse gave the 
gentlemen at present about entering the Class of 1877-78, the satisfac¬ 
tory proof of the legal power of the College to grant diplomas, as given 
to the College by its charter. 
Dr. Liautard followed the remarks of Prof. Veisse, in giving the 
audience the schedule of the duties and of the requirements of the vet¬ 
erinarians. After showing how the veterinary surgeon had not only 
duties which called him upon the task of attending animals in disease, 
or to restore them while disabled by external injuries, the doctor in¬ 
sisted upon the duties of the practitioner as a sanitarian and veterinary 
jurisconsult. And thus having divided these as the requirements of 
educated veterinarians, a description of curriculum and of the lectures 
upon these different subjects was laid before the class, with the closing 
announcement that the examination of candidates for matriculation was 
to take place on the next morning at 9 o’clock. Prof. Arnold, M. D., 
and Prof. Whitauss, M. D., of the Medical Department of the Univers¬ 
ity of New York City, being appointed Examiners. 
At the time of going to press, thirteen students have been examined, 
two of them being unsuccessful; the class numbers a much larger num¬ 
ber than last year, and amongst them are found two, sent by the Agri¬ 
cultural Societies of New Jersey and Michigan, to fill up the free 
scholarship offered by the Faculty. 
