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its promulgators is to be carried out, remains to be seen- 
Certainly, the very first step taken to carry out its provisions 
does not augur well for the future of the profession in this 
State. The Board of Regents was empowered to secure an 
unbiased examining board of veterinarians, and they very 
properly applied to the official representative of the profes¬ 
sion in the Empire State, and so the New York State Veter¬ 
inary Medical Association was asked to nominate ten members 
of the profession, from whom five would be selected to com¬ 
pose this most important and disinterested body of examiners. 
In another column of The Review we present an official 
report of a special meeting of this society, called for June i ith, 
for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the act of the 
legislature. One of the plainest propositions to those who 
had contemplated the new law was that certainly no member 
of the faculty of any school whose pupils are to compete for 
the diploma of this Board had any moral right to a place upon 
it. A teacher in one college has no business to examine the 
students of a rival institution in competition with his own. 
Even if he were absolutely fair and honest, and unbiased by 
personal acquaintance with the candidates coming from his 
own school, their competitors are placed at a great disadvan¬ 
tage, in that his method of teaching is foreign to them and 
familiar to his own. It is then manifestly not an unbiased 
board. It is retrogressive, and the profession would by this 
means take a stride backwards that would more than undo the 
greatest achievements of years of struggling. 
But, incomprehensible as it may seem, this is just what 
has been done by that special meeting of the New York State 
Veterinary Medical Association. It renders the whole law 
not only farcical, but it destroys harmony, generates discord ? 
and invites unfairness and dishonesty. Worse than all, the 
State Society, in placing in nomination representatives of dif¬ 
ferent schools, have done so deliberately, and after discussion 
of the subject. It matters not that there was present at this 
meeting but d handful of members; and it matters not that it 
was resolved to exclude teachers from this list, and then, after 
recess, rescinded that resolution before certain opponents of it 
