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A. LIAUTARD. 
sessor of a degree granted by such aboard. The action taken 
by this Association to obtain an act of organization is the first 
step in that direction. Let us have no more foreign veteri¬ 
narians, let us do away with the titles that exist, and were 
created with more or less wisdom and more or less good in¬ 
tention of professional standing. Let us have a board of ex¬ 
aminers with a national name, the Veterinary College of America, 
with one title for its alumni, an M.V.C.A. (Member of Veteri¬ 
nary College of America.) 
Conclusions. 
Gentlemen, in presenting to you the subject of Veterinary 
Education as it should be, and in making the remarks which a 
careful consideration of the subject has brought to our mind, 
we have never desired to find fault with what has been done, 
nor with what is being done now. The work carried out 
by our institutions has been a noble work, and all those 
who have been connected with it are entitled to feel proud of 
the results they have accomplished, and in years to come their 
names will be mentioned as those of men who have deserved 
well of their profession; but the day has come when better must 
be the word of the day, and that better cannot be obtained 
except by a uniform and unanimous consent of all those who 
are connected with veterinary education, and it is with the 
hope that the questions presented to you will receive a careful 
consideration 
lowing : 
1. That the attention of the officers (Trustees and Faculties) 
of the various schools of the United States where teaching of 
veterinary medicine is carried on, be called to the necessity 
that appointment to vacant professorships be made only by 
competition. 
2. That a stated and uniform requirement for the examina¬ 
tion of candidates to matriculation be required, the same to 
be decided upon by a special committee appointed to that 
effect. * 
3. That in the interest ol the private welfare of the schools 
now in existence, in the interest of the numerous students who 
that we respectfully beg to recommend the fol- 
