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EDITORIAL. 
our city, with its doors open for the reception of a coming 
host of incipient veterinarians. 
We have labored for the creation of a sinking fund for the 
building of the American Veterinary College, in various 
methods which have been suggested ; we have kept the sub¬ 
ject before our readers as best we could, and as well and fairly 
as could be considered consistent with the position and duty 
of a publication which disclaims the character of special 
organ of any interest or locality in particular, and yet we find 
ourselves once more calling the attention of our readers to the 
same subject. Well, the only excuse that we leel called upon to 
make is that the subject is one of sufficient importance to jus¬ 
tify its continued discussion—and this shall be our limit—un¬ 
til the publication of the final report of the inaugurating cere¬ 
monies, upon the completion and dedication of the finished 
structure. 
Many plans have been prepared and submitted, and 
proposal upon proposal has been made, of which the real¬ 
ization seemed to be more or less feasible, but one and all, 
even to the last one, which was brought forward in the Re¬ 
view for July, have as yet failed to produce adequate results ; 
at least, none have been of such a nature as to give assurance 
that the object in view, to wit, the erection of a building for the 
college, could be favorably entertained upon the basis which 
it offered. It is not by any means to be inferred from these 
remarks, however, that the idea of an adequate and perma¬ 
nent home for our college is to be abandoned. The failures 
at which we have hinted do not mean the demise of the pro¬ 
ject, for although the call last made upon the alumni failed to 
produce just such an answer as we desired and partly antici¬ 
pated, yet it did induce a response, and elicited the fact that 
many gentlemen were willing to answer the appeal, and an¬ 
swer it well. Nor was it from any mere personal feeling or 
motive of ambition or interest or of prospective return ; it 
was for alma mater s sake , and though the total amount do¬ 
nated was not great nor magnificent, still it was significant 
even in its small dimensions. These successive, though par¬ 
tially unsuccessful efforts have, however, been followed by 
