REPORT ON INTELLIGENCE AND EDUCATION. 
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value, and that of the same standard throughout all American 
schools, we shall get the recognition we deserve, whatever it 
may be. 
All the foreign schools are subsidized, with the exception 
of those of Great Britain, where the educational institutions, 
with one partial exception, are private enterprises, as are our 
own. But even in Great Britian, under these circumstances, 
a plan was devised by which the English diploma is made to 
represent a certain fixed value without regard to the school 
in which its possessor was trained. The plan has been in 
successful operation for some years, and to this fact it is un¬ 
doubtedly due that the English schools now find themselves 
in a condition to impose the full, or four years course of 
study, thus bringing their diploma up to the grade of the con¬ 
tinental institutions. I believe that it is just as possible for 
us, with our present conditions, to formulate a plan that will 
lead to the same general and desirable results. 
As a means of arriving at this result I would suggest, first, 
that a committee be appointed, with sufficient amount of 
money appropriated to cover the necessary expenses incurred 
for the accomplishment of such objects, to obtain, if possible, 
a charter of incorporation for the Association from the gen¬ 
eral Government; and, second, that a committee, none of 
whom shall be connected with the governing board or teach¬ 
ing staff of any veterinary educational institution, be appointed 
with the same power, to incur necessary expense, to arrange 
fora Congress of Faculties, at which each school maybe repre¬ 
sented by properly accredited delegates, where the subject 
of future educational requirements and training maybe freely 
discussed, and possible plans devised by which a uniform 
standard for teaching may be arranged and adopted. 
When we look at the natural prospects of the profession 
we find that in recent years the demand for scientifically 
trained students of comparative medicine is greater than the 
supply. The United States Government is constantly seeking 
for men who are capable of filling various positions under its 
Bureau of Animal Industry. Various State governments are 
seeking the proper men to act for them as cattle commission- 
