EDITORIALS. 
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This was sent to us by the principal of that institution with 
request to insert it in the REVIEW, as a complimentary notice, 
red ink printing across the original. 
Of two things: we knew the claims to be correct, or to be 
erroneous. In the first case, it would have been unnecssary to 
publish a fact which all of us veterinarians would have known 
of. In the second case, the writer must have had a mighty poor 
opinion of American veterinary journalism to entertain the idea 
that because for the price of an “ad” an editor would lower its 
character as to recommend what he knew to be an untruth. 
No, Mr. Principal, we cannot comply with your request, even 
if you draw your “ad” from our pages ; but certainly we will 
never induce our candidates to veterinary education to enter 
your school with such a notice as the one you send us as long 
as there will be, as there is already, many other institutions far 
ahead of yours in their endeavors to bring the profession to the 
standing it is entitled to. 
The struggle for improved education which has been inaug¬ 
urated by some of our schools in North America is too severe, 
has required from them too powerful efforts to see the result 
jeopardized by inducements similar to those represented in your 
complimentary notice. 
New Instruments. —It is not common for our instrument 
makers to call our attention to any of the new means which may 
be brought out of their industry for use in our practice, and 
while we may be accused of booming a firm or its products, we 
take pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to the 
modified emascidator, which has recently been offered by the 
house of Sharp & Smith of Chicago. We have not had oppor- 
