MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
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by wandering from the legitimate objects to which the attention 
of the student should be directed. But it was not so with all; 
and the consequence was, that the attention of the students gene- 
rally was distracted; and gradually it was drawn away from its 
legitimate objects, and absorbed by disputes and quarrels in which 
good feelingand gentlemanly conduct were too frequently forgotten. 
And what was the result of this? Towards the end of the ses- 
sion there were more, many more than the usual number of re- 
jected candidates for their diplomas. From what class of students 
they principally came, I will not now inquire ; but even the most 
successful grievously deplored the lossof much valuable time, and 
with deep regret confessed that their examination had not been so 
gratifying to themselves as it ought to have been, and that the 
session had been in a manner lost to them. 
And shall another session be thrown away ? shall it again be 
said that the line of conduct pursued is “ disgracefully and 
indelibly staining the annals of the Veterinary College ?” Except 
the voice of authority interferes, the grieved friend of the art will 
again have to say so. 
The concluding sentence of the memorial of the then manag- 
ing committee contains a wilfully false insinuation respecting the 
funds of that society — “ that the insolvent state in which it was 
left could not have happened if the funds had not been devoted 
from their original object, the purchase of books for the society, 
not of presents to its officers.” Now the writer of this libel, and 
the committee, well knew that not one farthing of the funds of the 
society had been misappropriated. 
While I am writing this article, a letter thus worded is find- 
ing its way to every practitioner and student in the neighbour- 
hood of the metropolis: — 
“ To Veterinary Practitioners and Students . 
“ Practitioners and Students who are of opinion 
that Messrs. Sewell, Spooner, and Mo rton, have not already 
received more than an equivalent for any services rendered by 
them to veterinary science, are informed that an oppor- 
tunity now offers for more voluntary subscriptions (by compulsion ) 
for more pieces of plate, &c. to those distinguished individuals, 
