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CORRESPONDENCE. 
actuated the production of that article is correctly expresse 
the words we have just quoted, the writer of said article ir 
have very wisely omitted from his otherwise meritorious prc 
tion every one of the personal, impertinent, and irrelevant s 
ments to which we shall presently refer. 
He says: “ It is needless to mention that one session was 
ficient to gratify their (the students of £ said veterinary colk 
ambition to study in said veterinary college.” In connection 
the context this is for several reasons a most remarkable stateu 
but for none more than for its ambiguity. If Dr. W. mear 
state that diplomas are obtained at “ said veterinary college” 
only an attendance of one session, he makes an erroneous s 
ment. If he means that students after attending one sessioi 
elsewhere to complete their course, he makes another; or i 
means that the students of “ said college ” are deficient in a 
tion to become educated veterinarians, he makes a statei 
equally as remote from the truth. His words are capable 
diversity of interpretations, but, in view of what follows 
opine that the last one we have given them is probably the 
rect one; for he says: “ Is it any wonder that some of the 8 
veterinary medical associations do not hesitate to admit qu 
and charlatans into membership in their respective associat : 
and even grant them certificates of membership as veterinary 
geons V 9 This, in the connection in which it is used, is ben 
contempt. Why has Dr. W. not frankness enough to state ' 
he apparently means, viz.: that the alumni of “ said veteriij 
college ” sympathize with u quacks and charlatans ?” And a 
we have Dr. W. saying: “ The majority of the regular grade 
composing the body of the Ohio State Veterinary Medical A 
ciation are graduates of the same veterinary institution. T1 
fore the purport of that circular or letter, which Prof. Liau 
received from them, and which was subsequently published in 
American Veterinary Review, was evidently intended ? 
mild rebuke to the “ short cut ’ method of instruction as tai 
and practised in that veterinary college. However, there wa 
urgent necessity to offer it as an unpardonable insult to the o 
veterinary schools and colleges in the United States and Cana 
