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EDITORS’ REPLY TO MR. C. CLARK. 
Professor, and of Hunter and of Cline. It is at length formally 
recognized by the present officers of the College. The three 
AND FOUR AND FIVE-MONTH-SYSTEM IS AT AN END. “ No 
veterinary pupil will in future obtain his diploma until he has 
been at least twelve months engaged in the study of the profes¬ 
sion at the College;” and those pupils who have not been pre¬ 
viously educated to the medical profession, or who have not 
served an apprenticeship to a veterinary surgeon or farrier, must 
regularly attend the College practice at least two years. 
This, we say, involves in it almost all that we could wish. If 
the pupil be kept a longer time at the College, he must have, he 
will demand to have, more to do there. An essential alteration 
must be made in the course of College-education. No more 
must be heard t of the few diseases of the horse, easily com¬ 
prehended and easily treated:—or “the pharmacopoeia which may 
be carried in the surgeon’s pocket.” The instruction must no 
longer be limited to one branch of the veterinarian’s practice, but 
must extend to every animal connected with the agriculture and 
■wealth of the countiy, and respecting which he may be con¬ 
sulted. The pupil must no longer remain ignorant of the mani¬ 
pulations ot the forge, or unpractised in the operations on the 
skilful performance of which his reputation and the property of 
his employer depend. He will be better prepared, more com¬ 
petent, more respected by his employer, and more deserving of 
that respect. Then, and not until then, the College will stand uni¬ 
versally confessed “ a national institution” “wisely planned, well 
conducted, and eminently useful.” And, long ere this, that good 
sense, or submission to public opinion, which has yielded this im¬ 
portant point, must yield others, demanded by every principle of 
justice and honour; and every good veterinarian will rally round 
“ the institution from which he sprung;” and “every member of 
the profession,” every one w r orth acknowledging, “ will live on 
terms of amity and peace.” 
One word as to the term u College ” It was adopted at the 
establishment of the veterinary school, and properly adopted ; for 
it has no reference to “ endowments, charter, sanction, privileges, 
or peculiar, rights whatever,” but means a number of persons 
collected together, and pledged to each other to accomplish a 
certain object. 
By a “ member ” of the College, we mean the practitioner who has 
been educated at the College; and, we humbly submit, that, at 
meetings of the veterinary profession, such persons only had a 
right to be present.—Having replied to these questions, we dis¬ 
miss, and for as long a time as our duty will permit us, all con¬ 
troversy. Our leading articles shall occasionally or generally 
