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COLLEGE AFFAIRS. 
certain individuals, which may too powerfully influence his mind, 
and these arising either from private dislike, or from the disbelief 
in certain theoretical tenets, which he may a great deal too much 
connect with good practice. We would have a board of veterinary 
examiners, easily constituted, and the greater part of them always 
within hail, or summoned at a short notice. It should consist of 
the principal veterinary surgeon as president, the veterinary sur- 
geons of the three household regiments, and of the regiment that 
might happen at the time to be quartered at Hounslow. To a 
board thus constituted there could be no objection, and from it 
there should be no appeal. 
Almost all the letters which the Editor has received since the 
publication of the last Journal contain allusions to the present 
state of veterinary affairs. Almost all of them express their 
thankfulness and their exultation at the commencement of useful 
reform in the Pancras school. The extended instruction on the 
anatomy and physiology and pathology of every domestic animal — 
the increased knowledge of veterinary pharmacy and the materia 
medica — the longer term of study, and the more mature age of the 
pupil; — these are points on which the writers dwell with delight and 
gratitude : but the necessarily inefficient lectures on pathology 
which must result from the whole of the stupendous task being 
thrown on one man, and the altered character of the school and 
of the profession which must result from the diminution of the fee, 
are circumstances respecting which they express much doubt and 
regret. We will not extract the introductory or the concluding 
paragraphs which numerous letters on various other subjects con- 
tain, but insert at length three letters devoted expressly to these 
subjects. They are given in the order in which they were re- 
ceived, it being premised, that the first of them was written after 
reading the account given in the Mark- Lane Express, and before 
our September number could have been received. 
ON COLLEGE AFFAIRS. 
Letter I. 
The Editor of The Veterinarian has invited us to express our “feelings 
and wishes” in reference to the present situation of affairs at the College. 
The College is generally spoken of as a place devoted to the instruction of 
pupils, and, when first founded, it was not intended to be any thing more. 
But, in order that it might accomplish this object, it was necessary to make 
arrangements for receiving patients. The pupils could not be taught without 
them, otherwise it is probable they would not have been considered. Unfor- 
tunately, the end seems to have been too soon forgotten in the means. The 
College became, and has long been, a hospital more than a school. 
As a hospital, its name among those most capable of judging has never 
stood very high ; but with that we have nothing to do. If the subscribers are 
