ADDRESS. 
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students, every one will be perfectly satisfied that the gentle¬ 
men who graduate are capable, educated men. We will then 
be assured that men are not allowed to graduate simply 
because they have been in empirical practice for a time, or 
because they are druggists, or because they hold some classi¬ 
cal degree, or a diploma from some normal school; on the con¬ 
trary, we will know that they are men that have been educated 
for the veterinary profession, in veterinary colleges, and are 
capable of practicing in that profession. 
It is important to us all that the moral character and busi¬ 
ness principles of men about to enter our profession be inquired 
into before they are allowed to matriculate. My belief is that 
every applicant should be required to fill out a printed blank, 
agreeing to comply with all of the rules of the college he 
wishes to enter, and also agreeing to comply with the code of 
ethics of the State in which he may enter practice. This 
surely would be no hardship for any honorable man, and we 
do not desire any other in the profession. It is surely a very 
embarrassing thing for us to come in contact in our practice 
with men that are graduates of recognized colleges, and to 
affiliate with them because of some underhand business meth¬ 
ods, or because they are drunkards or gamblers, and it seems 
to me that close scrutiny should be made of intended stu¬ 
dents before admitting them. 
One very important matter that needs the close attention 
of this association, is that of the actual time of attendance of 
students. It seems to me to be a ridiculous proposition, to 
say in an announcement that we require attendance on a cer¬ 
tain number of courses of six months each, and then to allow 
men to attend only a fraction of the time. To illustrate this 
phase of the subject: Suppose a student enters in November, 
1893, and he is allowed to come up for final examination the 
following spring and is passed, the student’s name appearing 
in the list of gradutes in the catalogue, issued in 1894. Could 
he have attended more than four and a half months actual 
time ? 
Suppose the fact to exist that schools were in the habit of 
allowing men to enter the school and appear for final exam- 
