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A. LIAUTARD. 
Natural History, Zoology, Meat Inspection, Sanitary Medi¬ 
cine, Shoeing, Biology, Bacteriology, External form of the 
horse, Teratology, Jurisprudence and Zootechny. 
It is unnecessary to say that none of our schools claim such 
a curriculum, when they consider that European colleges de. 
mand all of them four years of ten months each—the schools 
of Sweden and Denmark asking even six years. 
We know that there is a great difference between the or¬ 
ganization of European and American veterinary institutions ; 
as we have said, the former are governmental, the others are 
most of them private undertakings ; but is that a reason, would 
the private interests suffer if all the schools should ask 
three or four years, as they will in a short time to come? We 
have no hesitancy to say no, and as proof of it we can say that 
we know of one school that to-day, after having started this 
three years requirement, does already see the benefit of it by 
the increase in the number of its students. 
The competition that must exist among the schools must 
be one of advantages and opportunities to the student, and on 
that account the result must be striking to the careful observer. 
A better curriculum will mean a larger and more select at¬ 
tendance of students and an advancement for the profession. 
4TH QUESTION — Examination for Graduation and 
Degrees Granted. 
Facility of matriculation and short attendance at the school 
must necessarily be followed by another want of reform. This 
is the fourth question : 
The announcements of our various schools count among 
their requirements for graduation a written and oral, and, for 
some, a practical examination. These are carried on in different 
ways, but the oral enjoys some privileges —it is private. It 
is a little ten or fifteen minutes chat between the bashful, 
nervous, over-worked or perhaps ignorant candidate and one 
of his teachers. The student has answered the question, he 
is passed after waiting anxiously several hours or several days 
for the return, and for the paper which will allow him to come 
up at the next commencement. Poor recent graduate, this 
commencement, the last day of his college life, is the first of his 
