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This, however, may be a matter of future, but not far distant 
arrangement ; and we are unwilling to press it after the enumera- 
tion of the valuable improvements that have been effected; but 
there is that which admits of no delay — the introductory fee of 
the pupil. A session having commenced, and several payments 
of a certain sum having been made, it will not be easy afterwards 
to effect a change : and speaking most truly the sentiments of 
every practitioner but two on this point, and following up their 
bidding, we entreat the Governors to pause and reconsider one 
step which they have taken 
Our gratitude is unfeigned for other things that they have done. 
Let them complete the obligation by granting our prayer here, or, 
at least, by giving it the deepest consideration. They have deter- 
mined that the initiatory fee shall be twenty guineas, and this they 
have divided, in certain proportions, among the professors. The 
appointment of a Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physio- 
logy, and the riper age and more extended residence demanded of 
the pupils, — these are most important and most invaluable im- 
provements. Let them not be diminished, or set completely aside ! 
The expenses of the pupils at the Veterinary College, so far as it 
concerns the fees and circumstances connected with them, were 
nearly double twenty guineas. Was there any complaint of burden- 
some expense ] Was there any lack of pupils] Was not the school, 
generally speaking, full ] Can a single circumstance be stated to 
induce the dangerous experiment of a diminution of the fee ] Is 
it creditable to the Institution ] Will it not inundate the College 
with young men from the lower grades of society — the smith, the 
groom, the helper ] Will it not thus inflict a deadly blow on the 
respectability of the profession] Will it not rend asunder those 
friendly associations so honourable and so delightful between the 
veterinary surgeon and the practitioner of human medicine] Will 
not the disgrace of this cheap education, cheap, indeed, compared 
with that of the medical student, follow the cavalry veterinary sur- 
geon to his regimental mess] Will not his justly proud and 
honourable spirit quail under the indignity. In the name of the 
united profession, we entreat the Governors of the College to take 
this into serious and deliberate consideration ere the first session 
of the improved school commences. 
We propose — respectfully, but with a deep sense of the justice 
of our prayer — a compromise. Make the initiatory fee thirty 
guineas! You do nothing wrong by that. You still place the future 
student in a better situation than his predecessors. You leave to 
no human being the slightest room for complaint ; and you avert a 
blow, the surest, the most destructive that could be aimed at the 
respectability of the veterinary profession. 
Make the fee thirty guineas! You will want the money. From 
what fund are the subjects for dissection to be supplied] — from 
