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ation has a right to establish rules for its own guidance, and 
that is a good one, as no doubt it will raise the standard of its 
members. But it is also to be considered that if it is the in¬ 
tention to strike at the schools which have only a two years 
curriculum, and one or more (even four) veterinarians in their 
faculty, these institutions have a similar right to establish rules 
for their own guidance, and will not the consequence naturally 
follow that when they find themselves thus excluded from the 
Association, they will on their part forthwith turn their backs 
upon the body which ignores them ? How many veterinary 
schools in the United States have a three years’ curriculum ? 
How many actually have four veterinarians in their faculty ? 
How will it be known whether a graduate has attended the 
three six months’ terms of study ? How will it be established 
that the professional education acquired in a three years’ 
school is better than in that of a two year institution ? 
And the queries might be largely multiplied and a variety 
of answers given without getting at the final and satisfactory 
solution of the matter. If we are not mistaken, this second 
resolution is directly antagonistic to that of Dr. Lyman. 
Then if one means consolidation and union, what can be the 
spirit of the other if it be not division and discord ? 
Borrowed Feathers — How to Pluck them.— 
Scarcely a week passes, when either in our capacity of Editor 
of the Review, or as dean of one of our colleges, we are not 
requested to pronounce upon the qualifications of some un¬ 
known man, and as to his right to the title he assumes as a 
member of the veterinary profession. 
Sometimes we are approached through anonymous let¬ 
ters, and at others interviewed personally, and it rarely oc¬ 
curs that we are able to do justice to the truth and at the 
same time, answer the applicant satisfactorily. It is a re¬ 
markable fact, however, how often the assumption of the 
same title recurs. Our correspondents and interviewers not 
only flourish an imposing (no joke intended) array of familiar 
initials, every man being a V. S., or a D. V. S., or a D. V. M., 
according to which selection from the alphabet appears to 
his ears most euphonious, but often claims to have been 
