EDITORIAL. 
301 
The following are °n the Board: Prof. James Law, of Cor- 
neli; Dr. K. S. Huidekoper, of New York; Dr. N. P. Hink- 
AT U ^ a - ° ’ P o Henry Kelly, of Albany, and Dr. 
C. D. Morris, of Pawling-. The Board org-anized by the 
selection of Prof. Law as President and Wm. H. Kelly as 
Secretary. The following was the designation of the five 
chairs: Dr. R. S. Huidekoper, anatomy and surgery; Dr. C 
D. Morns physiology and hygiene; Dr. W. H. Kelly, obstet- 
ncs ; Dr. JN. P. Hinkley, chemistry, therapeutics and materia 
medica; James Law, pathology, diagnosis and practice. 
And thus we stand : The law has been passed; the State 
Society has furnished the Regents with the prescribed ten 
names; and they have appointed the five disinterested veter¬ 
inarians who are to hold office as examiners. 
We declare in all seriousness that the placing of these 
teachers upon that Board, and by the contemptible subter¬ 
fuge that was employed in that disgraceful special meeting, 
is a blot upon the good name of the State Society which the 
members at large should not be willing to pass unrebuked. 
They have been used as a catspaw to further the selfish ends 
of a few men; and if she countenances such transactions her 
days of usefulness are at an end, as all men who stand for fair¬ 
ness and the good of the whole profession as against a clique, 
must see that its objects have been perverted and its influence 
used for the personal aggrandizement of those who are tem¬ 
porarily in control. 
And this is what the promulgators of this law have labored 
for! Surely, it was a boomerang; and its rebounding blow 
is more violent than we anticipated. It is a repetition of the 
glacier climber, who ascended one foot and slipped back¬ 
wards two feet—except, in this instance, the backward pro¬ 
gression is a thousand feet. 
The faculty of a school could not be trusted to pronounce 
upon the meiits of a student who had studied within its walls 
for three long years, whose character and capabilities the 
teachers had every opportunity to study; but it is taken out 
of their hands and placed in charge of—who ? Of a teacher 
in a rival school from which the candidate comes, whose own 
personal interest and pride is vested in his own institution, 
