CORRESPONDENCE. 
579 
Is the doctor really in earnest when he states that “ the bulk 
of graduates from the two-year-colleges are nothing more than 
rough-and-tumble practitioners,” or is he trying to boom the 
(new-born) school of which he is dean. 
It is a very easy matter to name all the past and present 
veterinarians at experiment stations in the western states, and 
the greater number of them are members of the United States 
Veterinary Medical Association, so the doctor must be careful 
or he may lay himself liable to expulsion from membership in 
the association, at least a similar statement made by the writer, 
regarding some men who/had worked their way into the United 
States Veterinary Medical Association, which appeared in the 
Review of November, 1891, was the cause of our application 
for membership being rejected by the Comitia Minora in 1893. 
But when Dean Schwarzkopf declares that the bulk of grad¬ 
uates from the two-year-schools, which includes New York, 
Montreal, Toronto, and Chicago, are little above the old-time 
quack, it is time to call a halt. 
It seems strange that the doctor has as his colleagues on the 
faculty of this anti-" diploma mill” (the McKillip College), men 
who have come out of those so-called “diploma mills.”" 
Probably the dean would make the matter more clear if he 
would at once name the particular mills he referred to, and thus 
do justice not only to himself, but also to schools which have 
been a credit to the country. 
The question naturally arises, is it possible that men taught 
in these two-year-schools (“diploma mills”) are capable of 
turning out—or rather educating such high-class practitioners 
as pictured by Dean Schwarzkopf. Say dean, can water rise 
above its own level ? 
The writer has always been an admirer of Dr. Schwarzkopf, 
and we are sorry to see that he has made such a wholesale on¬ 
slaught upon the “bulk of graduates from two-year-schools.” 
We are in entire harmony with the movement for a more strict 
matiiculate examination, and a three years course of study, and 
hope to see it brought about with as little friction as possible. 
