106 VETERINARY STUDENTS’ DINNER. 
There is something passing strange in all this. It is altogether 
beyond our comprehension. 
As to the supposed partiality, we only ask, are the examiners 
at Surgeons’ or Apothecaries’ Hall suspected of it ? If so, let 
them give way to some of us, who are as competent to examine 
human surgeons as human surgeons are to examine veterinary 
ones, and who can have no partiality. These examiners, how¬ 
ever, are honourable men, and far above this suspicion; and let 
us tell this gentleman, that the veterinary surgeon would be 
swayed by a principle as honourable, and, uniformly acting under 
the influence of this principle, would soon command the full con¬ 
fidence of the public. 
The Chairman next alluded to Mr. Coleman’s hint of resigna¬ 
tion, and exclaimed, that, “ If he did resign while he had health, 
he would deserve to be flogged ; and he should not resign while 
the privilege of friendship gave him any control over the mind of 
the Professor.” 
And so say we, and so says the profession. Who are those, 
or where are they, who would urge or endeavour to accomplish 
the resignation of the Professor? Because the Veterinary Col¬ 
lege is not that which its founders intended that it should be, 
and the education of the pupil is manifestly imperfect and in¬ 
adequate, and there has been going on, for many a year, a sys¬ 
tem which has inundated us with incompetent practitioners, and 
degraded us in the eyes of the public and in our own estimation, 
and we complain of all this, are we to be met at every turn with 
threats of resignation ? We ask again, who has urged or wished 
the resignation of the Professor ? • * 
We have urged on him the claims of the pupil and the in¬ 
terests of the profession; we have entreated him seriously to 
compare the College as it was intended to be, with the College as 
it is ; we have prayed him to commence an efficient yet gradual 
reform; and we have also told him, that he would then find him¬ 
self speedily surrounded by a phalanx of old and zealous friends, 
who would enable him to laugh to scorn his real enemies, if he 
has them. Let us, then, hear no more of this resignation . 
The Chairman now proposed the health of Mr. Sewell, the 
recent death of whose father precluded his attendance on that 
