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PRESIDENT BERGh’s ADDRESS. 
the students. He was happy to find that year by year the num¬ 
ber increased. This session showed an increase of ten over the 
previous one. Over thirty had already enrolled—thirteen from 
the United States. Illinois, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Hew 
York, Pennsylvania and Vermont had sent their representatives. 
Toronto and Ottawa were represented also, and he was particu¬ 
larly glad to find no less than thirteen French Canadian students 
among the number. On account of the prevalence of the “ boat 
race fever,” he had yielded to the request of the majority of the 
students, who had taken it, and the lectures proper would be post¬ 
poned till Thursday morning, when he hoped all would settle 
down to the active duties of the session. 
—Montreal Herald , Oct. 2 d, 1878. 
PRESIDENT BERGH’S ADDRESS 
AT THE OPENING EXERCISES OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY 
COLLEGE. 
Gentlemen of the American Yeterinary College :—At what 
precise period of time this world of ours was created, is still, and 
ever will remain a mystery to human knowledge. 
That it was created, is the earliest fact we have in our pos¬ 
session ; and it is even probable that it was created before time 
itself began. 
Pending however its formation, the elements of which it is 
composed, are supposed by some philosophers to have been float¬ 
ing about in infinite space, but all the while gravitating towards 
one common centre. 
When these inert masses of matter had finally been united ; 
darkness, the most heavy and impenetrable, pervaded all things, 
until the fiat of the Almighty went forth—“ Let there be light!” 
With light came heat, and with heat came vegetation, and 
after vegetation came animal life—and last of all came Man ! 
Such was about the order in which the globe we inhabit was 
organized, and you will not fail to recognize especially one proud- 
