EDITORIALS. 
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bers of the United States Veterinary Profession, who have in 
view her elevation as an American profession, and that as such 
they will assume a name and hold their meetings, as the Associ¬ 
ation of Veterinary Faculties of the United States. 
The proceedings received read as follows:_ 
Congress of Veterinary Colleges of N~orth America , convened under the auspices 
of Committee on Congress of Colleges of the United States Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation, held at the Genesee House, Buffalo, N. Y., Saturday, July 14, 1894. 
The meeting was called to order at 12 noon, Dr. W. Horace Hoskins, Chairman 
of Committee, presiding. 
The following members of the committee present: Drs. W. Horace Hoskins and 
A. W. Clement. 
Delegates from colleges present: Harvard—Dr. Charles P. Lyman and Dr. F. H. 
Osgood; New York College—Drs. H. D. Gill and J. H. Huddleston; McKillup—Dr. 
Schwarzkopf; U. S. College (Washington)—Dr. C. Barnwell Robinson; University of 
Pennsylvania Dr. J. W. Adams; and Kansas City College was represented by Dr. 
Hoskins as delegate, per instructions, from said school. 
Dr. Nelson P. Hinkley, of Buffalo, was appointed by Chairman Hoskins to act on 
the committee in place of Dr. C. C. Lyford, absent. 
The following recommendations were adopted by the Congress of Faculties:— 
1. Length and Number of Sessions:— 
That it is the sense of this meeting that hereafter all veterinary schools issuing 
diplomas shall require attendance on a course of instruction extending over three 
years of not less than six months each, the time to be counted from the commencement 
to the end of the actual instruction given in each year, exclusive of time devoted to 
final examinations, and that no diploma shall be issued to any candidate until he has 
complied with all such requirements. 
2. Matriculation Examination:— 
That the first four sections on page 405 of the Harvard announcement, under the 
head of admissions, be recommended for adoption. 1. That “each applicant will be 
required to read aloud a selected passage from ordinary English prose; 2. To write 
legibly and correctly an English composition of not less than 200 words; 3. To write 
English prose from dictation; and, 4. The simple and compound rules of arithmetic, 
including decimal fractions.” 
3. Preservation of Matriculation and Examination Papers:_ 
Moved that we recommend to the Committee of the United States Veterinary 
Medical Association that all colleges be instructed to retain and preserve, for the 
pei iod of six months, all examination papers, and that they be open for inspection by 
any properly constituted board. 
(“The final examination in any subject, or division of a subject, of the course as 
given in the school.”) 
4. Uniform Title:— 
That the further consideration of a uniform title be laid upon the table for future 
consideration. Amended, that this subject is not to be taken up for discussion until 
after six months notice of that coming discussion has been given to all the schools. 
