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EDITORIAL. 
Here we have more veterinary study than required, but 
along with it comes other studies which rarely injure the ed¬ 
ucated veterinarian. How about matriculation examina¬ 
tions ? Several of our two-year colleges graduate men who 
are not able to read or write the English language, and are 
total strangers to other tongues. Are they suitable for mem¬ 
bership ? 
The rule proposes that the veterinary college shall have on 
its active teaching staff not less than four veterinarians. 
Can we not have one very good veterinarian who would 
equal four of those who have graduated without being able 
to read or write. 
And then who is a veterinarian? We would exclude the 
illiterate graduate with the title of V. S. and substitute the 
learned M. D., or possibly other scientist. Many veterinari¬ 
ans will say that the noblest thoughts, the grandest truths and 
the most powerful inspirations to study and research, the im¬ 
pulses which have done most to make them men , were receiv¬ 
ed not from the V. S ., but from a prominent M. D. in 
the capacity of professor of physiology, pathology, histology, 
etc. If they understand animal anatomy and physiology 
(and all genuine physiologists do), they are veterinarians in 
the highest sense of the word no less than in accord with the 
etymological derivation of the term “ veterinarian.” 
Will these rank as regularly educated veterinarians under 
the new rule ? Let us be careful; if anything is wanting, let 
it be inserted ; if anything is indefinite, let it be made clear; 
and if the new rule passes, let it be so framed that misinter¬ 
pretation will be impossible. 
The question is before us and must be met. Let us fully 
and carefully consider it, and above all let every member feel it 
his duty to come prepared next September to express his 
opinion and cast his vote. 
The columns of the Review will be freely open for the 
discussion of the question, and we trust they will be promptly 
used. W. L. W. 
