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A. LIAUTARD. 
College a requirement of attendance at three winter sessions at 
6 months each, which will be increased to 8 months in a short 
while. 
This result has been reached by degrees as you see, and if 
we have arrived at this point, if among the successful veterina¬ 
rians of this Excelsior State we can count many of the alumni 
of the schools from New York, if we can boast of the progress 
made by our profession, of the standing to which the veterin¬ 
arian has reached, there is no doubt that it is due to the fact 
that our colleagues are possessed of higher education and are 
ambitious to increase their professional knowledge, reared in that 
direction as they were while at college, where they were admit¬ 
ted with more or less difficulty and already in possession of a 
self desire for more knowledge and a comprehension that knowl¬ 
edge and education are inseparable . 
Does all this however mean that though we have so far ad¬ 
vanced, we have reached the limit of our needs—our veterin¬ 
arians are far better educated than they were some years ago ■ 
but does it mean that still higher education is unnecessary—or 
would be superfluous ? 
Evidently no, and I am quite certain that the days are not 
far off when in the United States, the standard of veterinary 
education will be that which has for years existed on the conti¬ 
nent and lately established in England, viz., an obligatory at¬ 
tendance at college of four sessions of at least eight months 
each. 
Of course this will have to be reached by slow progress— 
but with it, another condition will have imposed itself, viz., higher 
education before matriculation. 
Like in my studentship time, an ordinary good, though 
special, education was only required and to-day a degree of 
bachelor of science or of arts is demanded by the French schools, 
the same will be demanded here ; this in fact already exists. 
Several of the American Veterinary College Alumni had re¬ 
ceived the A.B. or B.S. before the D.V.S. was added to their 
names. 
