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ati\e practice? Will the prospective fees, fame and practice 
warrant the investment ? ” and again, u The pressure is heavy 
to shorten the curriculum, to admit ill-prepared candidates, to 
graduate large numbers irrespective of fitness, to abridge the 
already short course, to sell diplomas" 
No doubt these serious charges may, unfortunately, be true ; 
but has it been such for all ? Is it true of all the men who for 
years have worked for the elevation of the veterinary profession, 
have raised their requirements for matriculation, have increased 
theii curriculum, have gradually demanded of their students a 
longer attendance at college, have sacrificed time and money, 
without the slightest consideration of what might come back to 
them? Are these men to be accused, as Prof, Raw accuses 
them, of low and disgraceful motives ? We think not. To in¬ 
volve them among those who may have been guilty of the ac¬ 
cusations made by the honorable professor is not only an in¬ 
justice, but an assumed pretension of priority in the work which 
might be accepted as true by those who do not know. He is 
too familiar with the history of veterinary medicine in America 
to believe what he has said ; the conclusion is that he has given 
utterance to it for effect upon those who listened to him, and 
for the plaudits of the gallery, whom he knows is not conversant 
with veterinary history. 
The New \ork State Veterinary College is welcome. It 
can compete with superior advantages with other veterinary in¬ 
stitutions, but there is a fact, which must remain well estab¬ 
lished, that the private undertakings were the pioneers of 
\ eterinary education, that for some of them it is certain that 
veterinary history will register and recognize their deeds at their 
proper value, and will credit their work at a high estimation, a 
work which was carried out without expectation of fame, con¬ 
sideration of pecuniary return, and without the support of such 
a large institution as that to which the New York State Veter¬ 
inary College is attached. 
Attendance by Contract.—" Whereas , Rendering pro 
