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been adopted, not only with a view to ensure the selection 
of fully qualified teachers, but as a guarantee that such 
selection should be made solely on meritorious grounds, and 
without any reference to party or personal feeling. 
There is now no guarantee that personal feeling may not 
influence the selection of teachers. It may even be that 
gentlemen who do not belong to the veterinary profession 
will be appointed. 
In the mean time it will be perceived that the 
Trustees have broken faith with the Committee of Man- 
agement, and, most vexatious of all, with the unfortunate 
candidates, who have had their time, toil, and money, 
expended for worse than nothing. Seeing the fate of 
these and other gentlemen who have presented themselves 
for lectureships at this school, and seeing also the only 
guarantee for efficiency so quickly abolished, there can be 
but one opinion, we think, as to the wisdom of placing such 
powers as the appointment of scientific teachers in the hands 
of a Town Council, and but one piece of advice to be given 
to those members of the veterinary profession who aspire, 
through a belief in their own merits, to become professors 
under such a system — the advice which our ever witty 
contemporary, Punch, once tendered to those who were 
anxious to become Benedicts, — “ DonT V 3 
It may be mentioned that every candidate for a lecture- 
ship at the College of Surgeons in the same city, is com- 
pelled to undergo a test by experts, before he is licensed to 
teach. Surely what is deemed so essential in the medical 
profession cannot be less so in our own. No veterinary 
school can flourish, or do justice to veterinary science 
whose teachers are selected in this fashion ; and the truth 
of this is evidenced most clearly in the case of every 
institution which has the misfortune to be placed under the 
regime of an unscientific electoral body. 
