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Is this to the advantage of the student—is it one to veteri. 
nary education ? We fear not, and on this account will draw 
the conclusions that are presented at the end of this report. 
2D Question — Admission to Matriculation. 
If there be a measure essentially important to the advance¬ 
ment of veterinary education and the elevation of our pro¬ 
fession it is here—in the recruiting of young men properly 
fitted for the work. 
Compare the candidate to veterinary education of years 
ago to the one of our day and see the result obtained by him, 
whether at home or abroad. 
In France, already in my days, the intended student had 
to go into a preparatory school where special studies were re¬ 
quired of him. To-day no one is allowed to compete unless 
he possesses the diploma of B.S., of M.A., or one from some 
secondary classical or special college. 
In England the requirements for admission are quite severe, 
consisting in Reading, Dictation, English Grammar, English 
History or Geography, Arithmetic, and either French, Ger¬ 
man or Latin. 
In Belgium the candidate must have received an education 
which will allow him to receive the degree of Doctor of 
Natural Sciences. 
In Italy students are admitted only after having completed 
their studies in a high school. 
In Germany graduation from a high school is required, but 
a 3 most students are intended to serve afterwards in the army, 
they are recruited accordingly and from the military ranks. 
On this continent the requirement of an examination before 
matriculation was first demanded by the American Veterinary 
College, and this step was followed by all those colleges which 
came after her, with the exception of the New York College 
of Veterinary Surgeons, the Chicago Veterinary College, and 
one or two others, which require none, and though the exami¬ 
nation required by Harvard University seems to read in the 
announcement as being more severe than in any of the other 
sehools, all seem to be by their catalogues demanding sim_ 
ply at least an evidence of a fair hand-writing and semi-pass- 
