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U. S. VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
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Philadelphia, September 13, 1890. 
Dr. C. C. Lyford , Chairman. 
My Dear Sir :In reply to your letter of August 20th, I desire to say that our 
Faculty is in hearty accord with the movement to have the veterinary colleges 
of this country adopt a common standard of requirements for admission. In this, 
however, we might add that we could not consent (for our own school) to the 
adoption of a standard lower than that already adopted by us. 
I very much regret that duties here will prevent my being with you at the 
meeting in Chicago; however, one of our Faculty, Dr. Zuill, will be in attend¬ 
ance. 
I remain very sincerely yours, 
John Marshall. 
New York, September 13, 1890. 
My Dear Doctor: 
Yours of the 7th at hand. 
I favor very much a curriculum requiring a three-years’ course — a prelimin¬ 
ary examination in such branches as one would receive in a common school, 
and a Board of Examiners, composed of a teacher from each of the various vet¬ 
erinary colleges; that teacher to be delegated by the Faculty or Trustees of the 
school from which he came. 
, Yours very truly, 
To Dr. C. C. Lyford, Harry D. Gill. 
Chairman. 
New York, August 25, 1890. 
Dr. C. C. Lyford , Chairman. 
Dear Sir : In reply to your note of the 20th, I beg to inform you that I have 
mailed you this a.m. one of our Announcements for 1890-91, where, I hope, you 
will find the information desired. I send you this, as I do not exactly see what 
you desire, and thought perhaps the Announcement would tell you all. 
I remain yours truly, 
A. Liautard. 
New York, September 10, 1890. 
Dear Doctor : 
Yours is just received. As the questions you ask me to answer are part of 
statements which I intend to present the Association. I will be pleased to offer 
them to you on Monday or Tuesday, as I shall be then in Chicago. I can, how¬ 
ever say (1) I am in favor of a three-years’ course, and (2) I believe I am the first 
who suggested and recommended the establishment of a Board of Examiners. 
Thb minutes of the Association and the back volumes of the Review will show 
my claim to priority. But more later on. 
' Yours truly, A. Liautard. 
Robitaille, P. Q., August 29, 1890. 
My Dear Sir: 
Your letter of August 20th has just been received by me here. The U. S. 
Veterinary Association has had for some years now a committee upon “Single 
Standard” for the various schools, to whose chairman I have from time to time 
written my ideas concerning the matter; therefore a communication of length 
from me to you will not be necessary at this time. It would, in my opinion, be 
very much to the advantage of our profession if all of the American schools ad¬ 
vanced their standard to that, let us say, of Montreal. That they will do so, I 
do not believe. Our art and science cannot advance so long as the great major¬ 
ity of its practitioners begin life with eleven months, or less, of study in un¬ 
graded schools ; and we are the only veterinary profession which asks our pub¬ 
lic to believe that there is so little in our art. 
Yours truly, Charles P. Lyman. 
Professor C. C. Lyford, 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
