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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
albeit the Professor, as we think they will agree with us, 
has furnished us with the very best of apologies for setting 
aside certain other matters to make room for his admirable 
“ Introductory Address. 55 
For many years past, the Veterinary College has shared 
the fate of other, at the time new, institutions, in being with 
more or less reason found fault with and carped at, from 
time to time, for doing this or not doing that, without, by 
such remonstrances, just or unjust, having undergone any 
material alteration in its constitution from what it was in 
former days, or indeed originally was. The day, however* 
has at length arrived, when we behold reform rearing its 
head within the walls of the College itself, and Professor 
Simonds presenting himself as the bold herald to solicit atten¬ 
tion to it. Not that he has confined his proclamation of the 
necessity of reform to within, but has announced as great re¬ 
quirement of it without the College walls: in a word, he has 
proclaimed, in outline, a scheme of Professional reform , and one 
which appears well deserving of the serious consideration of 
every member of the Corporate Body, and of those members 
in particular who find themselves intrusted with the manage¬ 
ment of the affairs of that body. To pretend, this month, to 
enter into any examination or analysis of the sketch submit¬ 
ted, is, in our present confined space, quite out of the question. 
Let it suffice to observe, that it comprehends a plan which, 
as our readers will perceive, embraces many and various 
topics, and that some of them require a good deal of thought 
and consideration ere any opinion can be safely pronounced 
upon them. Opportunity serving, we hope, however, on 
some future day, to devote to them, at least to such as appear 
most to call for it, our best attention. Meanwhile, it would 
afford us, and, we will venture to add, Professor Simonds as 
well, no small gratification to learn the sentiments, on the 
several subjects in question, of those in the profession who 
are so well able to offer a word of advice on such a novel and 
important occasion. 
