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the requirements of the schools advanced, and that in the 
future our Association ought only to recognize the graduates 
of such institutions as require a three years’ graded period of 
study. 
The result of these deliberations was that the following 
amendment to our Constitution was offered at the Washington 
meeting to be acted upon during our meeting here: 
“ 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 Association, 
or by the resident State Secretary for his respective State. 
He shall be a graduate of a regularly organized veterinary 
school which shall have a curriculum of at least three years, 
of six months each, especially devoted to the study of veteri¬ 
nary science, and whose corps of instructors shall contain at 
least four veterinarians. If of a medical school a similar curric¬ 
ulum as to time shall prevail.” 
This alteration to go into effect after the annual meeting 
of 1892. It shall not be retroactive, nor apply to applicants 
who were college matriculants prior to its passage. 
If it be your pleasure, gentlemen, to accept this amend¬ 
ment to the Constitution, I have onlv to add my heart) 7 
Amen ! 
Some friends of the profession are optimistic enough to 
hope that some day we may have a national board of ex¬ 
aminers to examine the students graduating from all the 
schools of veterinary medicine in the United States, those pass¬ 
ing to be members of the Veterinary College of America, on a 
plan similar to that governing the M.R.C.V.S. of England 
to-day. But I fear that if this scheme is even advisable its 
adoption is a long way off, and meantime 1 think that the 
United States Veterinary Medical Association is now in a 
position to act to a certain extent as censor of veterinary 
medical education upon this continent. We can certainly 
put ourselves on record as being in favor of a three years’ 
graded course of study, at least, (with no objection to a 
longer one) and a matriculation examination sufficient to show 
that the student has an education that will enable him to 
