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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
better men in the future than have been produced in the past by 
the various veterinary colleges of our country. 
I think it is incumbent upon the members of this Association 
to-night to take recognition of the action of the United States 
Veterinary Medical Association in the adoption of the amend¬ 
ment which was so unanimously carried at their Convention in 
September at Boston, and to hail with just pleasure and satisfac¬ 
tion this wise step on their part. 
Amendment. “ARTICLE I. Any applicant for membership 
shall submit his name upon one of the Association’s application 
blanks, duly vouched for by one or more members of the Asso¬ 
ciation, or by the resident State Secretary of his respective State. 
He shall be a graduate of a regularly organized and recognized 
veterinary school, which shall have a curriculum of at least three 
years, of at least six months each, specially devoted to the study of 
veterinary science, and whose corps of instructors shall contain 
at least four veterinarians. If of a medical school a similar cur¬ 
riculum as to time shall prevail.” This alteration not to apply to 
matriculants of the year 1892. It shall not be retroactive, nor 
apply to applicants who were college matriculants prior to its 
passage. 
I think we should also make recognition of the fact that 
the American Veterinary College of New York has made the an¬ 
nouncement that on and after 1893 her course shall be an obliga¬ 
tory one of three years. I do trust that she may be only one oi 
the various two-year schools that will take this advanced step 
during the present year. 
I think it is equally incumbent upon us that we should place 
upon record our feelings of disappointment and condemnation ol 
the establishment of another two-year school at Washington 
D. C. I consider this movement to be one of the most danger¬ 
ous and unexpected in the annals of veterinary science in this 
country. We certainly had a right to expect not a similar cur¬ 
riculum, but a broader and stronger one from such a source, than 
exists to-day in any of the veterinary colleges of this country 
It comes at a time when it produces among the members of the 
profession in this country one of the sorest disappointments that 
