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CORRESPONDENCE. 
upon the bulk of graduates from the two-year schools,” he con¬ 
strues wrong. In the first part of my article I said: “One or 
two of the old two-term schools have done good work in years 
gone by and actually fulfilled a mission ; they have sent out a 
sort of rough-and-tumble practitioner, but a man with a ready 
practical judgment and eminently fitted for the peculiar needs 
of the country in times past. Some of these men, by their per¬ 
severance, honest principles and constant self-education had 
met with wonderful success.” This utterance is certainly no 
onslaught, but. if anything, is a compliment. I maintained, 
however, that some of our two-term schools have turned out 
during the last few years hundreds of men who are utterly unfit 
for the profession from a moral and scientific standpoint, and 
who cannot but disgrace the profession. If Dr. Cormack would 
have ever met these men as I have, he would certainly agree 
with me that they are “ the modern quacks.” The old quack 
was known to have no college education and was largely ex¬ 
cused for his misdoings on account of this. But when a man 
spreads out a great, big diploma and then turns out to be of low 
character and of little better professional education, if any, than 
the old empiric ; then the intelligent public gets rightly dis¬ 
gusted, and they turn away with contempt from the veterinary 
profession, whereas the money-making diploma-mills should be 
blamed, for they should not accept such men as students. 
Another fact will illustrate that same right in urging a higher 
education : Dr. Salmon states at the last meeting of the U. S. 
V. M. A. that of the thirty veterinarians who took the examin¬ 
ation for meat inspectors under the Civil Service rules, only two 
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passed, and those tivo ivere foreigners . Will you please reflect, 
Dr. Cormack ? 
Apparently Dr. Cormack is a little behind the times if he 
includes Montreal and the New York Schools into the two-term 
schools. Montreal has been a three-years school as I know of 
it, and has turned out some very clever veterinarians. Both 
the New York schools have adopted a three-year course, and 
have now more students than ever before. 
