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There is a strong probability that not many of the two-term 
schools will be left before long. They have ceased to pay and 
that settles it with most of them. One such school has just 
closed its doors, another had a row between professors and 
students, and the latter have applied for admission at another 
college. The remainder of the two-term schools, I am glad to 
say, are willing to change under certain conditions. The 
Kansas City -Veterinary College is willing to make hers a three- 
year school if the Chicago Veterinary College does so ; and this 
latter college is willing to change if the Toronto school leads. 
Several graduates of this school have sent me an invitation to 
be present at a meeting in Canada for the purpose to request 
“the control of the Ontario Veterinary College by the Govern¬ 
ment, the raising of the college standard, and to exclude illit¬ 
erate persons from the ranks of the profession.” 
All this indicates that the ball has been set rolling, and I 
am so glad about these indications that I shall only urge these 
to “ go on.” I hope they will come out of this change a better, 
a nobler set of schools, and I rely for this upon the words of 
the great poet, “that the whirling of time brings round redress.” 
Olof Schwarzkopf. 
TRAUMATIC PERICARDITIS IN THE XVII. CENTURY. 
Woodbury, N. J., Dec. 4, 1894. 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sir :—The subjoined extract will probably be of in¬ 
terest. In the fourth volume of the Diary and Correspondence 
of Sami. Pepys, Secretary to the -Admiralty, in the reign of 
Charles II. and James II., are some letters on the subject of 
“ Second Sight”; in one of these Lord Tarbat, speaking of “Elf 
Arrows” (evidently arrow-heads of the old or new stone age), 
states that the country people (Scotch) believe that the elves 
shoot them into the hearts of cattle, and “ Lord Tarbat, or some 
other lord, did produce one of these elf-arrows which one of his 
tenants or neighbors took out of the heart of one of his cattle. 
Truly, T. B. Rogers, D.V. S. 
