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or extirpating contagious diseases of animals; to the noble senti¬ 
ment of humanity by relieving the suffering of animals, and to 
the public health by preventing the consumption of unhealthy 
animal food or preventing the transmission of animal diseases to 
man. 
Here then are vast opportunities for usefulness, for affluence, 
honor and distinction, abundant work for willing hands, bound¬ 
less field for enthusiastic research, which must yield rich results 
to the earnest and conscientious student, and as to room there is 
plenty of it, most of these vast fields being comparatively unoc¬ 
cupied, giving the student full range and choice of field or location. 
What need we do or have, to realize the benefits of these 
opportunities? We might answer briefly by saying, more and bet¬ 
ter men. Our rank and file to-day is not what we need for to¬ 
morrow. We are now what the demand has been, but we are 
not competent to grasp fully the opportunities of the future. 
The future demands a veterinarian who shall be a genuine scholar, 
with a broad, liberal preparatory and collateral education, to ex¬ 
pand the mind and the better enable him to appreciate scientific 
theories and facts, and give him a standing as a man of learning, 
and then he should be deeply and thoroughly grounded in veter¬ 
inary science, not hurriedly crammed for a loose examination, 
but be truly and ineffaceably learned in every branch of veterinary 
knowledge. 
For these improvements we naturally turn to our colleges. 
What we have denominated the new are probably doing now all 
that public sentiment will at present support, but the numbers of 
students are so small, compared with the “old” schools, that 
their influence is largely hidden. 
With the public sentiment which has largely controlled the 
character of applicants for veterinary honors, the old schools 
have accomplished a great good, which we hope will always be 
appreciated, but times and public sentiment change, and the 
“ old ” schools seem like adamant. Some of them have existed 
more than twenty years, without increasing their teaching force 
or length of course of study, or advancing their requirements for 
matriculation or graduation. 
