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and the success of whose students before the Board would 
add to the reputation and, consequently, to the financial bene¬ 
fit of the source f rom which he receives his salary as a teacher. 
The success of his own students would shine the brighter if 
the students from the rival schools were less successful.. And 
so human instincts would tend to make this Board unfair. 
If we assume that such considerations do not enter into 
the question—that the examiners do not allow individuals nor 
their sponsor to influence the decision upon the merits of the 
candidate —the whole principle is wrong for another import¬ 
ant reason. Every medical man who is capable of doing any 
independent thinking knows that he has obtained views at 
variance with the teachings of his text-books and preceptors, 
from personal observation and experience; and, if he be a 
teacher, he will, in the course of a lecture season, instill his 
ideas into his students, and thus they become converts to his 
peculiar views. The students from other schools may have 
received as careful training, and even better, than his own; 
but it is upon a different line of reasoning, and, possibly, the 
correct line. It is self-evident that of the two classes of an¬ 
swers which that examiner will receive, the higher rating will 
be accorded to that student who has absorbed his own intui¬ 
tions, even though they be wrong or fanatical; and thus the 
other student has been unjustly treated by a biased examiner. 
Every person, whether a scientific man or an intelligent 
layman, will regard this Board of Veterinary Examiners as a 
biased and interested body of men, who will do more to 
retard veterinary progress and send it back from whence it 
emerged some fifteen years ago, than any lack of legislation 
could possibly have done. 
But the case is not hopeless. It is true, the appointments 
have been made, and legally entitles the recipients to hold 
office for the period of their incumbency. There is, however, 
a quick, absolute and effectual remedy. Almost every pro¬ 
gressive veterinarian, especially he who earnestly desires that 
profession shall rise to the plane of our sister science of 
man medicine— which does not permit teachers in interested 
schools to sit in judgment upon rival schools —is anxious to do 
