EDITORIAL. 
791 
partments of universities, with the same facilities for teaching 
veterinary science as for human medicine. 
Nor did progress confine itself to the education of the indi¬ 
viduals of the profession ; but the legislatures of various States 
were asked to enact laws regulating its practice, with the object 
of finally excluding all those who possessed not a diploma from 
a recognized college. If our memory is not faulty, the first law 
recogniziug the veterinary diploma was passed by the State of 
New York fifteen years ago, in 1886, and steadily one State after 
another has adopted similar measures, most of them creating 
veterinary examining boards, which in many instances not 
only pass upon the proficiency of the candidate for license, but 
take into serious consideration the quality of the school issuing 
the diploma, and if the latter does not fulfill the requirements 
of the board, the candidate is rejected or not examined. 
In the various steps leading up to this satisfactory condition of 
veterinary education at the beginning of the twentieth century,' 
the Empire State has ever been the leader. Not only has she 
thrown about her profession all the safeguards enumerated, but 
she has placed her veterinary colleges under the university sys¬ 
tem, and their matriculants must be satisfactory to the Board of 
Regents of the State as to the amount of education possessed by 
them at the time of their entrance upon the study of this pro¬ 
fession. When the preliminary requirements are satisfactory 
the student must spend three sessions of six months each within 
the walls of one of her colleges, and should he graduate and re¬ 
ceive the diploma of the college, he is then in condition to pre¬ 
sent himself to the Board of Examiners for their license to prac¬ 
tice the art to which he has devoted so much time and study. 
It is by no means a foregone conclusion that this board will rat¬ 
ify the action of the college, as we know of a number of instan¬ 
ces where the candidates have been successively rejected, while 
the character of their alma viater was perfectly satisfactory. 
Graduates of colleges requiring only two sessions cannot, of 
course, be entertained, and such men who are not already regis¬ 
tered in this State cannot practice within he rconfines. All these 
