Excerpt from The Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives, 1897, Vol. 18

Time and experience test the works of man, and the highway of progress is covered with the fragments of countless inventions. The creeds, the dogmas, the social relations of one age become the bywords or the antique curiosities of the next. Men do what they can, and coming generations pardon their errors, but judge their work as they ought. What is good lives, what is bad dies. This is the general rule. We are living in an age that demands of every man the best fruits of his mental and physical energies to meet the exigency of the times. The closing years of the nine teenth century are the ripening stage of the greatest minds that have ever lived - the abundant fruition of the strongest hand' that holds the pen or the mechanic's tool. As the months roll by responsibilities multiply upon the shoulders of those who think and work the hardest in the ranks of the professional, architectural, and scientific classes. The struggle is to reach the high peak of human endeavor. Never before have such auspicious opportunities for usefulness and preferment among its members been laid upon the threshold of our profession as lies there to-day. The man of ability and thought fulness readily appreciates the situation who with willing hands grasps the rough material fresh from the sources of inexhaustible supply in the professional field, to mould and to polish the rough ened stone into a character of usefulness, beauty, and perpetuity. A profession that within a short time has been looked upon with an air of disdain and ridicule by men in other professions is now beginning to be recognized and accepted as a factor beneficent in.

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