EDITORIAL. 
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ineligible to admission in this yery society on account of in¬ 
sufficient training. 
Opening of the Colleges. —All over the country, from 
New York to California, this month will witness the opening 
of the veterinary institutions of learning. It is not possible 
to suppose that there will be an increased attendance over 
the past five years, since the general depression in the live 
stock interests, induced by half a dozen factors—such as the 
decreased demand for horses by virtue of more or less national 
idleness in business centres, by the substitution of electricity 
for horse-power upon street cars, the passing craze of the 
bicycle, the threatened invasion of the horseless carriage, State 
laws limiting the earning capacity of horses who compete for 
purses—all tend to bring the price of horses to such a figure 
as to cause them to be, from a financial point of view, un¬ 
worthy the expenditure of fees for medical attendance when 
they become sick or disabled. All of this tends to break the 
enthusiasm of men seeking this as a profession upon which to 
expend their money, minds and energies. This is, however, but 
a repetition of what has occurred many times before in general 
financial and commercial depressions, its influences are by no 
means confined to our profession, and will be followed by a 
renewed impulse as general prosperity returns to the country. 
Sanitary medicine is making immense progress, and the ser¬ 
vices of the higher educated men are being sought upon an 
increasing scale every year ; and when general thrift returns 
to the country the interests which command our services will, 
with all other professions and businesses, participate in the 
common prosperity. 
A Funny Little Editorial in the Journal. —In the 
September issue of the Journal of Comparative Medicine and 
Veterinary Archives one of its numerous editors felt called 
upon to reply to certain remarks made by us in the August 
Review relative to the action of a special meeting of the 
State Society in June, in placing in nomination for the posi¬ 
tions of veterinary examiners under the Board of Regents 
certain teachers in veterinary colleges in this State. In the 
