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country and to forfeit the position already gained; and an
inspection of the Dean's report will show that with proper
facilities provided there need be no fear that the Department
would not creditably maintain itself from its current receipts.
The reports of the Veterinary School and Hospital exhibit
a steady improvement in buildings, grounds, equipment and
administration, with an equally gratifying increase in the number
of the students. Both represent a profession which has yet to
make its way to a full appreciation on the part of the public.
The high standard of the school and the rigorous requirements
of its curriculum exclude all but capable and diligent students
from the course, limit the number from whom fees might be
derived, and ensure graduates fully competent to serve the community
in a most important interest. Their thorough training
would be impossible without the clinical advantages of an
extensive hospital. The' Hospital, primarily for this purpose,
becomes a great charity, in which last year more than 1500
dumb animals were treated without charge to their owners. The
maintenance of this educational and charitable work would be
impossible without generous assistance. The children of the
late J. B. Lippincott, Esq., have continued their liberal gifts to the
school which so largely owes its existence to his warm and hearty
interest, and Mr. J. E. Gillingham, who was associated with him
in the inception of this movement, and continues to occupy the
position of President of the Board of Managers of the Veterinary
Hospital, still manifest a warm and liberal interest in the development
of this Department. The Legislature is now considering a
bill to extend to the hospital the moiety of an appropriation made in
1889, of which only one-half was then available through lack of
public funds. The State receives a full return for this appropriation
in the scholarships placed at its disposal, and it is earnestly
hoped that the moderate endowments suggested by the Dean, in
his report, may be obtained, and the permanent prosperity of the
Department thus assured.
The Law Department presents a most gratifying report. A
gradual hut steady increase in the. number of enrolled students,
and the generally high averages attained by them in term and