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Further, is not the desirability of a government school of an advanced type 
jggested in this movement ? A school for graduates of other colleges; a school 
amed by professors separate from the employees of the Bureau, but which 
ay use the employees at stated intervals in clinical work ; and take advantage 
the exceptional facilities for advanced work to be found at Washington. 
While sympathizing with your Society in the belief that our profession is 
jured by the establishment at this time of a two-year college, you will know 
3m the above why I do not endorse your resolutions except in the last proposi- 
>n that it seems “ contrary to the institution of the government to make use 
one of its bureaus to establish and maintain a private school.” 
It seems to me that the reasons of protest should have been brought out 
ore fully in this line as the Secretary of Agriculture should care very little 
lether the school be a one or a four-year school, but whether he had any right 
interfere with private persons (as the members of the Bureau are outside of 
ice) setting up any business they pleased. 
If the movement against it is to meet with any success it must be on the 
a that the school, because of its officers being in the pay of the government, 
plicates and involves the government in some way. If this can be established, 
if it can be shown that a private enterprise gains prestige and patronage 
m the government with the consent of those interested only, you will soon see 
I 1 head of the Department involved set the necessary machinery in motion to 
: tify the evil complained of. Believe me, sir, 
Very truly yours, 
Cooper Curtice. 
Moravia, New York. 
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEAT INSPECTION. 
By Dr. W. L. Williams, Chairman of the Committee on Diseases. 
(A Paper read before the United States Veterinary Medical Association.) 
Sanitary Science, in its entirety, is one of the broadest, 
idlest and most ancient of all sciences. From the earliest 
I* much of the noblest thought, the deepest study, the 
st sympathetic and earnest endeavors have been designed 
tier directly or indirectly to guard or improve the health 
iman. 
The engineer who effectually drains a malaria-breeding 
ump, the architect who constructs a house with due regard 
‘ight and air, and free from disease-breeding drains or refuse 
: 3 ptacles, the trained agriculturalist or horticulturalist who 
:scts and destroys unhealthy vegetable food, the veterina- 
i who controls or extirpates disease of animals, which, by 
