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CORRESPONDENCE. 
The Veterinary Medical Society in connection with the Col¬ 
lege grants a certificate of Honorory Fellowship to each student 
who has conformed to the rules of the society on completing his 
collegiate studies and obtaining the Diploma of the Council. 
I am Sir, Yours truly, 
Andrew Smith. 
HONORARY TITLES OF ONTARIO VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sir.— Will you allow me to make a few remarks on the 
subject brought forward in your last issue with regard to the hon¬ 
orary degree said to be conferred by the Ontario Veterinary Col¬ 
lege. Many of your readers who are graduates of that institution 
will doubtless know how that title originated, and will be as ready 
as the authorities of the College themselves doubtless are, to con¬ 
demn the action of some of their fellow-graduates which gave 
rise to such a rumor. 
I do not, of course, speak with authority, but with a positive 
knowledge of the facts when I say, that any such title is entirely 
self-assumed, and assumed in ignorance of its true meaning, if, 
indeed it has any meaning. The Ontario Veterinary College, 
like most other educational institutions, holds competitive exam¬ 
inations at the conclusion of each term in the various subjects em¬ 
braced in its curriculum, and the successful competitors, those who 
obtain a high percentage of marks in their examination papers,— 
are held to have obtained honors in their classes and are to have 
their names inserted in the next catalogue of the college as hav¬ 
ing obtained such honors. 
These being merely class-examinations conducted by the edu¬ 
cators themselves, and not by the Examining Board, have of 
course, nothing to do with the examinations for graduation, but I 
am positive that it is on the strength of this questionable honor 
alone that some ambitious individuals have presumed to dub 
themselves u Honorary Graduates” of the Ontario Veterinary 
College. It is a mistake born of ignorance on the part of the 
Honorary Graduates ” themselves, and as such does not reflect 
