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TIIE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1, 1872. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. —Cicero. 
THE OPENING OE THE SUMMER SESSION AT THE ROYAL 
VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
Two months ago we referred to the establishment of a 
course of lectures and practical instruction in the summer as 
a desirable thing among the probabilities of the future. Now 
we speak of it as an accomplished fact, one indeed of several 
facts which have lately become patent in the institution. It 
has never been a part of our policy to disguise the defects 
in the system of veterinary education, and we have not 
hesitated to admit to our pages the strong expressions of 
opinion which have been advanced by the most radical 
reformers of our profession. On the contrary, we have more 
than once incurred the censure of our Continental friends on 
account of the amount of space which has from time to time 
been devoted to this subject. At length the matter has 
assumed another shape than that of talking or writing, and 
something has been done. 
In our article in the March number of the Veterinarian 
we mentioned that the course of special clinical instruction 
which the profession has so persistently demanded had been 
determined on, that new facilities would be given to the 
more advanced students for the acquirement of practical 
knowledge in the hospital, dissecting-room, and chemical 
laboratory, and pharmacy, while the important subjects of 
operative surgery and shoeing would receive a due share of 
attention. It is scarcely necessary to guard ourselves against 
misconstruction in reference to the use of the words operative 
surgery. Even if no such institution as a Royal Humane 
Society existed, the authorities of the Hoyal Veterinary Col¬ 
lege would not be likely to sanction the horrors of the Alfort 
School; but we take occasion to express our conviction that 
