I 
336 DIFFERENCES OF OPINION 
cause will ultimately have his proper rank assigned him in the 
scale of grateful and honourable recollection. 
What shall we say to other anonymous Correspondents? 
u Studentes'’ (two of them) ;—“ A new dub/’ If there be that 
utter difference of opinion, which there is stated to be, upon almost 
every point, theoretical and practical, betw r een the professors at 
the Veterinary College, — if these differences are continually 
forced upon the notice of the students,—why it is very foolish 
conduct, and altogether indefensible too; for it will be difficult, 
or rather impossible, for the pupils to arrive at any clear or use^ 
ful conception of the principles or practice of their profession 
amid this conflict of opinion. If it even goes so far that the pre¬ 
scriptions of one professor are not allowed to be compounded 
until they have been revised by the other,—if the pencil is often 
used with an unsparing hand, and not only the proportions of the 
ingredients are frequently changed, but whole pages now and 
then struck out,—this does, indeed, surpass our comprehension. 
It is a state of things that should not be allowed to exist another 
moment. 
As to Mr. Sewell's lectures, this is a delicate point for us to 
touch upon. We always understood that they were to be supple¬ 
mental to those of the professor; that, while Mr. Coleman’s compre¬ 
hended veterinary physiology and pathology , Mr. Sewell’s were 
to embrace veterinary surgery. On this principle alone could we 
ever reconcile it to ourselves that other lectures, beside those of 
Mr. Coleman, for which the students had to pay, should be deli¬ 
vered at the college. We were more reconciled to it afterwards, 
when we w T ere informed that Mr. Sew ell's lectures were to ex¬ 
tend to all domestic animals. But if it be true that Mr. Sewell 
is now going over—no, not the same ground with Mr. Cole¬ 
man, for they occupy different grounds upon almost every sub¬ 
ject,—but pretty nearly the same course of subjects wi ll Mr. Cole¬ 
man, and that his lectures contain only different explications of 
the same subject, we do confess that we think this is wrong. 
The students have already paid for physiology and pathology, 
and, perhaps, they ought to be considered as having paid for 
