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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
To Retiring Officers. 
Resolved, That we sincerely thank the retiring* officers and 
committees for their excellent and painstaking efforts in the 
administration of their various duties: 
Notes on the New York State Meeting at Utica. 
Eighty members registered at the Utica meeting of the New 
York State Veterinary Society. 
The New York State Veterinary Medical Society seems to 
have unconsciously fallen into the practice of the Grand Army 
of the Republic of that state, i. e., alternating its election of a 
president, up-state-man one year and one from the metropolitan 
district the next. Dr. David W. Cochran, a veteran practitioner of 
New York City, was honored with the office at the recent meet- 
ing in Utica. 
Aside from those from the practice, Drs. Hollingworth and 
Young, Utica, subjects were sent in to the clinic from Clinton, 
Rome, Deansboro, Waterville and Little Falls. 
Some of the Visitors to the New York State Veteri¬ 
nary Medical Society: Charles H. Duncan, M. D., New York 
City; Drs. Johns, Spence and Ford, pathologists; Dr. Bernstein, 
director and custodian of the state asylum, and Dr. Rogers 
(chemist), director of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Veterina¬ 
rians Charles Perry, Worcester, Mass.; F. J. De Land, Fair 
Haven, Vt.; Benjamin D. Peirce, Springfield, Mass., and H. F. 
Palmer, Philadelphia, Pa. 
President John F. De Vine, in his address before the 
society, spoke of the present bright outlook for the properly 
educated and trained veterinarian and, while he stands for higher 
education, as he has always done, and would not favor a reduc¬ 
tion in the requirements for entrance into veterinary schools in 
New York state, neither would he under any condition sanction 
an advancement of the same. In this respect he said: “ While it 
is absolutely essential to have a reasonably safe framework on 
which to build, it is possible to overdo the education question for 
practical purposes; a feeling too easily acquired bv those living- 
in a university atmosphere.” He also dwelt at some length upon 
education and its practical application, in which he expressed 
some hard facts about “ kid Move ” veterinarian’s and their lack 
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of ability as practitioners. 
