VETERINARY EDUCATION. 
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our schools of only two sessions, varying from 4J to 6 months, 
with the exception of the two veterinary departments of Penn¬ 
sylvania and Harvard Universities, this has been considered 
by many insufficient. The subject has been carefully consid¬ 
ered by one of those schools and the result has been that the 
requirement of attendance has been extended to three years, 
and, as you know, this Association has by a unanimous vote 
decided to enforce this three years regulation and impose it 
on all the schools by denying admission to any graduate who 
could not show a diploma for at least a three years' school 
attendance. It is not our object to consider this action of the 
Association. She has a right to make her own laws, she has a 
right to exclude whom she pleases, and yet the question might 
be put, would it not have been better to bring the two year 
schools to adopt a three year term by showing them that it was 
in their interests and in those of the profession that such a 
change was demanded ? 
We are sure that there is not in our Association one man 
who can ignore the advantages that the student will obtain, 
and therefore the profession, by a longer stay at college. And 
if for one instant the candidate to matriculation, the intended 
student,would only be made aware of the various studies which 
he will have to go through, there is no doubt in our mind that 
he would turn his back to a school where his own intelligence 
would tell him that two sessions of six months, less the vacations 
and holidays, would be all that would be required of him. He 
would undoubtedly see for himself that he could not be grad¬ 
uated and be equal in knowledge, in theory or in practice with 
the one who would have given more time. 
Is it to say that three years are sufficient? Evidently no. 
A glance at the programmes of some of the various schools of 
Europe, England, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium shows 
that with but little alteration the various subjects are taught 
at those schools, viz : Veterinary Medicine, Comparative Path- 
ology, Materia Medica, Therapeutics, Pharmacology, Veteri¬ 
nary Surgery, Operative Surgery, Obstetrics, Anatomy, Path¬ 
ological, Surgical and Descriptive Histology, Physiology 7 , 
Chemistry, Physics, Toxicology, Botany, Helminthology, 
