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nary College be properly conducted, there never can be, amon£ 
those who were educated there, a single foe to that establishment 
r Cheers .] If, sir, we may possibly think that, in some partij 
culars, the Veterinary College may not have been all that it I 
founders intended and its friends wished, yet with all its taultl 
we love it. If we are anxious somewhat to reform it, it is bel 
cause we love it; and by that reform would render it more worth! 
of public estimation and support. [Hear, hear.'] Circumstances! 
sir, have lately occurred, which would lead us still more t 
attach ourselves to that institution. When we find that th 
pupils now have (that which they could never before obtain) 
gentleman regularly in the dissecting-room, capable o the dut 
of a demonstrator, and willing to discharge it; when the Piofe.‘j 
sor, three times in the week, goes through the hospital, not disposl 
ing of fifty horses in half an hour, but occupying two or tfm 
hours in a succession of valuable clinical lectures, and with th; 
affability which characterizes him, sedulously eliciting the quel 
tionino’ of the youngest students, and evidently never so hapj 
as while communicating instruction; when we have it stated (ail 
I trust on good authority) that the governors, or ruling powel 
at the College, will require a longer residence at that seminal 
from every student-ah! sir, there was the grand, the fat. 
source of evil; when young men, who previously knew nothu; 
of the horse, his habits, his diseases or his frame and w» 
came from situations which almost took from them the powerf 
acquiring that knowledge, obtained, in four or five short montH 
the diploma of a veterinary surgeon; when the countiy was tbi 
deluged with incompetent practitioners, we need not wonder th| 
in the stable of the gentleman and the sportsman, the vetti 
narian sunk below even the coachman and the groom. [Uei 
hear.l But, sir, when we have now reason to hope thaw 
period of residence, commensurate with the importance of I 
profession, will be required from every student; when t le H 
fessor of the College presides over the present meeting, and wl 
the avowed purpose of offering to us certain concessions, and wh* 
I am perfectly assured will be received with all the lespect < 
good feeling which he could wish ; that attachment to the \ 
Finary College, which neglect and injury could not destd 
acquires a purer and intenser glow. The time, sir, is not X 
distant, when this institution will fulfil the admirable purpose! 
its excellent founders—will be more identified with the agrul 
tural interests of the country—no longer our disgrace, but » 
pride and our boasta national institution, wisely planned^ li 
conducted, and eminently useful. [ Cheers .] Sir, I propose 
Royal Veterinary College.” 
