MR. FEARNLEY^S TUITION. 
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say 160 learners (and I believe there is quite this number at 
present studying at tbe College) around a living horse or dead 
subject without they are arranged in the theatre, and the 
information conveyed in the form of a lecture. 
I coincide with the writer that too much study is an error. 
Regarding two winter sessions being assigned to learn che- 
mistry, I think that every veterinary student will find the time 
little enough with his other studies. I understand that the 
members of the higher branch of medicine only pass portions 
of their examination at one time, so they can thus give their 
whole energy to certain subjects ; but I am open to correction 
on this point. 
A summer months 5 session might work well, but both 
teachers and pupils require some relaxation from their 
studies, even if only indulged in from 7.30 a.m. to 11 p.m. 
I have not penned this with any animus against Mr. 
Fearnley, as I am not acquainted with that gentleman, but 
have endeavoured to correct misstated facts. 
I enclose my card, and you may publish my name if you 
think it desirable. 
MR. FEARNLEY'S “TUITION.” 
By “ Conservative.” 
As a fellow student of Mr. Fearnley’s — one who matricu- 
lated and graduated at the same time, and one who would 
therefore be exposed to the same damaging and professionally 
fatal system of “ lecturing to death, 55 which according to his 
letter then as now exists — I ask to be allowed space in your 
journal to repudiate the slur which he has (perhaps unwit- 
tingly) cast upon the then teachers of the Edinburgh Vete- 
rinary College, three of whom, to the unspeakable loss of the 
profession, have now passed “ that bourne whence no traveller 
returns.” 
I will not dwell upon the presumption (I can call it by no 
other name) of so young a member of the profession attempt- 
ing to lecture the lecturers on the system of teaching they 
ought to pursue, or rather ought not to pursue. I make no 
doubt, however, that should Mr. Fearnley prevail upon the 
governing bodies of our schools to dispense with the delivery 
of lectures without necessarily dispensing with the teachers 5 
services altogether, they, the teachers, would feel deeply in- 
debted to him for relieving them of by far the greatest and 
most difficult portion of their onerous duties. 
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