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the same objection as the teacher. To avoid these alleged 
dangers it is not enough that all teachers should be excluded 
from the examining board. To be consistent we must equally 
exclude all graduates of schools from which the candidates 
for licenses are likely to come. The present may not be an 
entirely unobjectionable arrangement, but surrounded as it is 
by existing safeguards, the objection is not so very moment¬ 
ous. It has been my experience for many years to be one of 
nearly two hundred teachers who examined their own stu¬ 
dents for degrees, and there has rarely been a complaint that 
substantial justice has not been done in every case. 
Finally, I must notice my personal position in the matter. 
The criticism in the Review entirely misses its mark in my 
case, since I am not a teacher in a veterinary school which 
will send candidates before the examining board. For many 
years “Cornell University” has declined to admit men to 
study with the view of receiving a veterinary degree from 
the institution, for the good and sufficient reason that we 
have not had a fully equipped veterinary school. Morever, 
the new State Veterinary College, the buildings for which 
are now in course of erection on our university campus, will 
not be opened until September, 1896. No matter, therefore, 
how advanced may be the standard of any man who shall 
enter that college, he cannot possibly graduate from it until 
June, 1897. Students entering as freshmen in 1896 will pre¬ 
sumably not graduate until 1900. On the grounds of dis¬ 
qualification as alleged by the critic, therefore, I am just as 
eligible to serve on the board as is any private veterinary 
practitioner. For the next two years I cannot possibly have 
a student of my own present himself for examination. For 
the third and fourth years from the present any candidates 
who may present themselves from the New York State Vet¬ 
erinary College at “ Cornell ” will be quite as much repre¬ 
sentatives of other colleges where they spent their first two 
years, as they will be of the institution here. But my ap¬ 
pointment as examiner is only for one year. Next May, at 
the latest, the State Society is bound by the terms of the law 
to submit a list of ten names of persons eligible for appoint- 
