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OLOF SCHWARZKOPF. 
ing- will simplify the negotiations between the remaining colleges 
and makes a result tangible, and may lead to an association of 
three-year colleges. 
It is now conceded by everybody that foi the study of veter 
inary medicine in its present state of rapid advancement, the 
common education demanded by our colleges is rediculously 
low. In fact it can hardly be concieved how a young man with 
such limited training can adapt his crude intellect for the study 
of any science at all. The trouble is that older and more devel¬ 
oped professions than ours, for instance the medical prefession, 
do not as a rule demand a higher school education from their 
students. Whatever advancement we wish to make will, there¬ 
fore, have to be made gradually. A good english education is, 
of course, essential, but I believe the time has come when we 
should announce in the catalogues of our veterinary colleges 
that a limited knowldge of Latin (Grammar and Caesar s Bellum 
Gallicum) is desirable, and that we should also encourage the 
knowledge of a little Greek (Reading of Xenophon’s Anabasis). 
While we may not be able to make such knowledge obligatory 
from the start, it will tend to introduce its value to intending 
students. And if it is thus announced by all three-year schools 
it will harm no individual college. The study of German and 
French is also a great help to students, although in my opinion 
it will never equal the benefit derived from the mental training of 
these classic languages from which, besides we derive our whole 
medical terminology. For any further or sharply defined de¬ 
mand neither the profession nor the country is ripe; but that it 
is too much to-day is a mistake when we consider that France 
and Germany ask from their students a pre-education equal if not 
superior to the degree of M. S. or M. A. of our American Uni¬ 
versities. Thus we can see how far back we are and will be for 
generations to come. 
Prof. Liautard is right in severly criticising the mode of re¬ 
cruiting the faculties of our veterinary schools. But not only 
should the professor be a specialist in his particular branch, he 
ought to be also a model man as regards character and habits, 
