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AUSTIN PETERS, 
and the amount of “money that it will put in horsemen’s 
pockets,” I leave to your imagination, knowing, as most of 
you do, the length of time it requires for thoroughly educated 
veterinarians to build up large and lucrative practices. 
This condition of affairs is certainly interesting, and calls 
for the most careful consideration and investigation upon our 
part. 
If the proposed amendment to the Constitution of this 
Association be adopted, it will be necessary to add a commit¬ 
tee on veterinary schools to the standing committees, whose 
duty it shall be to keep posted upon all matters pertaining to 
these institutions, such as the establishment of new colleges, 
the period of study, requirements for admission and gradua¬ 
tion, the number and standing of the members of the faculty, 
and all similar information; or if it seems wiser to do so the 
Committee on Intelligence and Education might perform this 
duty. It should also devolve upon the committee having this 
work in hand to correspond with the proper officials in foreign 
countries having charge of the management of their respec- i 
tive veterinary schools, keeping them informed upon the 
standing of our different veterinary colleges, and securing 
for each the recognition it deserves. 
For example, a graduate of an American veterinary col¬ 
lege having a two years’ course could formerly enter an Eng- j 
lish veterinary school and obtain the degree of M.R.C.V.S. 
in a year, while a graduate of a three years’ school here was 
obliged to do the same. This is obviously unfair to the man 
who has taken the longer course, and it is a condition of affairs 
that we should do our share toward remedying; and we 
should do all in our power toward securing every facility for 
our young graduate to pursue his studies in any foreign vet¬ 
erinary school that he may desire to enter, with a due recog¬ 
nition of the course of study that he may have followed at 
home. 
If, however, all the veterinary schools in the United States 
adopted a three years’ graded course, with a high standard 
of matriculation examination, I do not think the ideal will 
have been reached, for I believe that in time, as this country 
