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and to be forgetful and unmindful of the strong plans which our 
foundation must support in the future. 
With ever increasing fidelity, associations must in the future 
take more recognition of the movements in the various veterin¬ 
ary colleges of our country. We must become stronger sup¬ 
porters of those schools whose intentions are to increase the re¬ 
quirements for admission ; to broaden and strengthen their cur- 
riculums ; to enlarge their facilities for instruction; to raise the 
standard of their requirements for graduation ; and to encourage 
them with the support they need from us, that we should give, 
in order that they may feel that their labors are not unrecognized or 
unappreciated. We must alike be severe critics of those whose 
efforts are for the creation of immature schools, the offering of a 
lower grade of inducements for students to enter, and whose in¬ 
centive in their work would seem from the outcome of their 
efforts to be that of money-making; and we must soon draw a 
line on these classes of new members of the profession in all our 
organizations. 
The rapid multiplication of veterinary schools during the past 
year I very much fear bodes no good to our profession. Many 
of them I know are wholly unprepared to fulfill the requirements 
of completing such an education as is demanded by the public 
to-day, in many sections of our country, to properly perform the 
duties that may fall to their lot as veterinarians. Within the past 
year new schools have originated at Detroit, Michigan ; Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio; Des Moines, Iowa; Kansas City, Mo.; Washington, 
D. C., while the older schools of Montreal, Toronto, American 
and New York, of N. Y., Veterinary Department of Harvard, 
University of Pennsylvania, Veterinary Department of Iowa 
Agricultural College, Chicago and Baltimore, with the various 
veterinary chairs in the Agricultural Schools of New York, Vir¬ 
ginia, Ohio, Mississippi, Indiana, and some other States are still 
in the field. The school at Minneapolis for the present has 
ceased to perform active duties. I am safe in saying that all 
these schools have not originated from any demand by the pro¬ 
fession or from the needs of any one section of our country. I 
do not deny the fact that there is room for them all • but I do 
