The Veterinary School.

The Harvard Veterinary School has been enlarged by the erection of a new building on Lucas street. On the lower floor is a new ward, with accommodations for ten more horses. This ward opens into the old building on Village street, as well as on to Lucas street. The outside vestibule is for the use of the students, and from it the stairs run up to the lecture and dissecting rooms. The lecture room is large and well lighted. It will accommodate one hundred, each man having his own desk. The room rises towards the back, and thus the rear seats are as good as the front ones. It is fitted with blackboards and lecture-room appliances. This lecture room is used for the lectures on veterinary medicine, botany, physics and anatomy. It is so arranged that a horse can be brought on to the front platform for the demonstration of experiments. A door connects with the hospital from this room. On the third floor is the dissecting-room. It runs up two stories and is lighted and ventilated by a large skylight. The floor is asphalt and the walls of brick, heavily painted. The subjects are taken up by elevator. Back of the dissecting-room is the library and reading-room. This is fitted up with reading desks and writing taoles. A row of bookcases surrounds the room. There is a medical society in connection with the school, that holds fortnightly meetings here, at which papers on practical subjects are read and discussed. On the fourth floor is a room for the assistant house surgeons, and the museum. While the two departments, academic and hospital, are together, they are separated so that the students enter the academical department from Lucas street and have that part of the building at their disposal, but they obtain admission to the hospital only at certain stated times. The school is self-supporting, as it has no endowment.

A great advantage is now open to the public in the establishment of a free clinic from nine to eleven on Tuesdays and Fridays. Horses brought to the hospital on those days, if sick or ailing, will be prescribed for free of charge. At no other time will attendance be free. The clinic was not possible until the new part was finished, owing to the lack of room in the hospital.