University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine - Scalpel Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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A 'VVARD' FOR SMALL ANIMALS

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by ut? Give us a fair percentage of cuts? Weve been punished, and succeeding classes should have this privilege. Institute a regulation uniform for the Hospital Attendants? Give a good course in Prescription Wfriting? We need it. . Employ a librarian, hours 9 to 5? Many institutions with half our equipment maintain an accessible library. Cut out the Materia Medica farce and give more real 'llherapeutics prior to our Senior year? Give a course in Practical Obstetrics it possible? Require Seniors to purchase white coats and wear them in all clinics? Publish a scientific journal, edited by our capable Faculty, eliciting student contributions, to the ultimate stimulation of original eliorts by the progressive? lrlave a committee on graduate employment, for the investigation of available positions, and subsequent placement of our graduates in situations now being nlled by products of inferior institutions? Cut out 90 to lOO marks on exams? l-ecture hfty minutes instead of an hour? Give the rooms a chance to ventilate. lnstitute regular semi-monthly repititoriums in every subject? They are O, K., and tend to keep us up on our stuit. i-Xhford a few oophorectomy demonstrations, and opportunities for Seniors to do minor operations when assigned to cases. Cut out so many petty printed rules and maintain order through 'force of character? Bury the antiquated bell now in use, and never on time, and substitute an up-to-date electric system, with a buzzer in each lecture room and laboratory? Replenish the badly depleted assortment of clinical necessities, which would greatly facilitate and brighten clinic? W 138

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HYDROTHERAPIC AND RIESTRAINING XNYARDS