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tude, as well as dire need, had at first delegated the power of de¬ 
termining on the qualifications of the students? 
Can it be necessary to urge the point ? The present com¬ 
mittee, with the exception of the professor and his assistant, are 
incompetent. They are ornaments to their own profession, but 
they know nothing practically of ours. There are now many 
veterinary surgeons fully qualified to decide on the merit of 
the pupil. Will any one tell us, why an incompetent committee 
should be continued, when a better and an unexceptionable one 
could be easily selected ? 
When, therefore, we are refused that which we claim as our 
right, and which justice to the profession and to the public de¬ 
mands ; and when the powers that be, will not condescend to 
assign one reason for their rejection of our claim, but refer us to a 
law enacted they well know for what purpose, and with what 
feeling, and which the slightest expression of their wish would 
cause to be immediately abrogated; can they wonder at our being 
somewhat indignant, or using a warmth of expression approach¬ 
ing even to invective, and which in general cases would not be 
warranted? Whereas the distance throws us back so far, but 
we may boldly speak in right, though proud oppression will not 
hear us 
.We once more repeat, and we challenge contradictiony that it 
was the unanimous and strongly expressed opinion of the sub¬ 
scribers, at their annual meeting, that the profession would be be- 
nefitted by the addition of a certain number of veterinary sur¬ 
geons to the examining committee; that Mr. Coleman, in the 
most unequivocal terms, declared his perfect conviction of the 
propriety of the measure, and his hope that the examining com¬ 
mittee, whatever previous reluctance they might have felt, would 
be induced to comply with this expression of the opinion and 
wish of the subscribers; and that (did we feel ourselves at liberty 
to report the result of private communications) more than one of 
the examining committee acknowledged the pi*opriety of the pro¬ 
posed arrangement. We might likewise assert, that we have not 
conversed with a single well-informed, or sporting, or medical 
man, who has not, without hesitation, and even in stronger Ian- 
