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Cornell University Announcements New York State College of Veterinary Medicine Cornell University New York State College of Veterinary Medicine 1982-83 A Statutory College of the State University at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Cornell University Announcements (USPS 132-860) Volume 74 of the Cornell University Announcements consists of seven catalogs, of which this is number seven, dated October 11, 1982. Issued twice in March, once in June, once in July, twice in August, and once in October. Published by the Office of University Publications, Cornell University East Hill Plaza, Ithaca, New York 14850. Second-class postage paid at Ithaca, New York. Postmaster: Send address changes to the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University C 1 17 Schurman Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853. Cornell Academic Calendar 1982-83 Registration Monday and Tuesday, August 30 and 31 Fall term instruction begins Wednesday, September 1 Labor Day (University holiday) Monday, September 6 Fall recess: Instruction suspended, 1:10 p.m. Saturday, October 9 Instruction resumed Wednesday, October 13 Thanksgiving recess: Instruction suspended, 1:10 p.m. Wednesday, November 24 Instruction resumed Monday, November 29 Fall term instruction ends, 1:10 p.m. Saturday, December 11 Final examinations begin Thursday, December 16 Final examinations end Thursday December 23 Registration Thursday and Friday, January 20 and 21 Spring term instruction begins Monday, January 24 Spring recess: Instruction suspended, 1:10 p.m. Saturday, March 26 Instruction resumed Monday, April 4 Spring term instruction ends, 1:10 p.m. Saturday May 7 Final examinations begin Thursday, May 12 Final examinations end Saturday, May 21 Commencement Day Sunday, May 29 In enacting this calendar, the University has scheduled classes on religious holidays. It is the The dates shown in the academic calendar are intent of the University that students missing classes subject to change at any time by official action of due to the observance of religious holidays be given Cornell University. ample opportunity to make up work. Announcement Contents 2 Academic Calendar 1982-83 5 The College of Veterinary Medicine 5 History of the College 6 The College Library 6 Research Facilities 8 Admission to the College 11 Admission to the Graduate School 12 Finances 13 Financial Aid 18 Requirements for Graduation 19 Honor Societies 20 Legal Requirements to Practice 20 Health Services 20 Services for the Handicapped 20 Housing and Dining Facilities 21 Conduct of Students 23 Description of Courses 23 Anatomy 24 Pharmacology 24 Physiology 29 Pathology 31 Microbiology 33 Avian and Aquatic Animal Medicine 34 Clinical Sciences 38 Clinical Service Courses 39 Diagnostic Laboratory 39 Preventive Medicine 43 Schedules 1982-83 51 Register 63 Index 64 Tentative Academic Calendar 1983-84 Cornell University The College of Veterinary Medicine History of the College was the first contract college (later to be known as a statutory college) at Cornell, thereby setting the stage for a long and effective arrangement between the From the very beginning of the University with the state and the University. A veterinary building (named issuance of a charter in 1865, the founder, Ezra Jam es Law Hall some years later) was provided by Cornell, insisted that a chair of veterinary medicine be the state, and the doors were opened for classes in established. His experience as an owner of purebred the autumn of 1896. The school was composed of six livestock had taught him the importance of animal faculty members of professorial rank, two instructors, health, and he instructed Andrew D. White, the first and eleven students. Scholastic requirement for president, to seek out the best-qualified man to teach entrance was a high school diploma or its equivalent, courses in veterinary medicine and surgery. It was the a rather high standard for those days. first time that veterinary science had been granted The early faculty recognized the importance of a equal rank with other sciences in an American good library and set this goal as one ol their priorities. university. Governor Roswell P. Flower made a personal President White secured the services of Jam es Law, donation in 1897 to the library that now bears his and the appointment was confirmed on August 4, name and houses an impressive collection of 1868, by the Board of Trustees. A young, well- veterinary resource materials. educated Scotsman, Law had graduated from the The college remained at the original site (at the Edinburgh Veterinary College, studied under the southeast corner of East Avenue and Tower Road) great medical teachers of the day (William Turner in until the summer of 1957. During that time it had human anatomy and Joseph Lister in the principles expanded with the construction of a clinical complex and practice of surgery), and attended veterinary along Garden Avenue and a large laboratory building schools on the Continent. He had also taught at the (Moore Laboratory) to house the Department of New Veterinary College in Edinburgh and the Albert Bacteriology and Pathology. In addition, the Veterinary College in London. University had provided a large tract of land on When classes began on October 7, 1868, Dr. Law's Snyder Hill to be used for a research farm. office was on the second floor of Morrill Hall, the first The present site of the college was occupied in July University building to be completed. A small museum 1957, and the college has continued to expand in its and pharmacy were located in the basement. In teaching, research, and service to the people of the Law's words: "Our clinical building was furnished by state. The present on-campus facilities occupy about the campus grass, walled in by the great dome of twenty acres, with ancillary facilities on Snyder Hill God’s blue sky, and watered and disinfected by the and elsewhere. The latest additions are the eight- life-giving rays of the sun and the ozone from hill and story Research Tower, dedicated June 27, 1974, and dale, lake and forest. We had the common privileges the Diagnostic Laboratory, dedicated October 17, that many a veterinarian has to avail himself of in his 1978. Expansion is a continuing process at the daily rural practice.” college as it seeks to provide practitioners, scientists, During the academic year 1869-70 a fairly complete and teachers for the future welfare of animals course in veterinary medicine was taught by and man. Professor Law to a class of about twenty. Of this The New York State College of Veterinary Medicine is group, four were graduated after four years of study located along Route 366 at the eastern edge of the with the Cornell degree of Bachelor of Veterinary campus of Cornell University at Ithaca, a city of about Science. Three of these continued in the profession thirty thousand permanent residents, situated in the and became nationally distinguished through their famous Finger Lakes region of New York at the head accomplishments in disease control. of Cayuga Lake. The city is in the south-central part It was not until March 21, 1894, that the New York of the state, about 260 miles northwest of New York State Veterinary College was established at Cornell. It City and 50 miles south of Syracuse. 6 Research Facilities The College Library Bovine Health Research Center The Bovine Health Research Center was formed to The library, endowed by a gift from Roswell P. Flower, governor of New York when the college was founded, integrate various Investigations and available resources into a coordinated attack on bovine is named the Flower Veterinary Library in his honor. It diseases. These research activities have been is maintained partly by endowment funds and partly grouped into six programs: reproductive disorders, by appropriations from the state. The library is on the mastitis, digestive-system diseases, metabolic second floor of Schurman Flail, The large reading disorders, respiratory disease, and leukosis. room, seating seventy, has display shelves for current journals, and areas of indexes, abstracts, and other The first building of the center, the Bovine Specific reference books. The three levels of adjoining stacks Pathogen Free Facility, has been completed and will include journals and monographs and are open for be used for the production and maintenance of cattle use. Individual study carrels are also available. that are completely free of known pathogens or that have a well-defined previous exposure and are The library contains over sixty-nine thousand volumes specific-pathogen free. Fund raising has begun for and regularly receives about eleven hundred the next units in the Health Research Center, the periodicals and series titles. This represents a Bovine Multipurpose Research Building and the worldwide selection of veterinary titles plus Bovine Isolation Facility. publications in the biomedical sciences designed to support undergraduate, graduate, and research programs. Through the various libraries on the Equine Research Park campus, about four million volumes and more than Established in 1966, the Equine Research Park is a fifty thousand journals and serials are available to 160-acre teaching and research center located 11/4 students. These collections, interlibrary loans, and miles from the main campus. Here, the faculty of the photo-duplicated materials supplement the research New York State College of Veterinary Medicine carry potential of the veterinary library, which is rich out research in equine nutrition, bone and joint in historical and basic research resources as well disease, infectious-diseases drug testing on behalf of as recent monographs and selected government the racing industry, exercise physiology, and equine publications. A bimonthly newsletter is issued listing reproduction. recent acquisitions. Information on regulations and suggestions for the Feline Health Center use of the library are provided to new students and faculty. Additional instruction in bibliographic The purposes of the Cornell Feline Health Center are research is available for advanced problems.