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I said it was not, it being regularly incorporated under the Stat 
laws, had a governing faculty, and was under the supervision ( 
the Regents of the University of New York State, and that I di 
not consider it any more a private institution than the school c 
which he was a professor. The conversation then turned on tli 
course of studies, which appeared to be fuller than he thong] 
they were, but he considered a two years’ time was too short, 
said that was a fact we were well aware of, and that it would n< 
be long before the term would be three years, in fact Harvard 
and Pennsylvania’s terms were now three years. I asked hii 
about what percentage of the students were not allowed to grac; 
uate last year, and he said it was about fifty per cent. I informe 
him that the American had plucked thirty per cent, of her lac! 
year’s class, which seemed to surprise him. He said at a lat 
meeting of the Board of the Royal College he had introduced 
motion to the effect that no allowance should be made to gradi 
ates of foreign or colonial schools, because he considered thei 
standard of education so low, but it was voted down. I said 
was pleased it was, and that I considered he did a great injustic 
to schools that were only in their infancy, and in no place mor 
than America would he find a greater desire to increase generall 
the standard of veterinary education. I said the United State 
Veterinary Medical Association had lately appointed a standin: 
committee, composed of members who had graduated from th 
different American and Canadian schools, with a view of secim 
u '“" or not a general standard could not be adopted, and i 
ed some good would result from their labors. I remiudee 
Mm ui the fact that, although the veterinary profession had beei 
in existence in England for several centuries, and had only witkii 
the last few years succeeded in getting legislative recognition 
and that in France the veterinary profession was to the presen 
day not legally recognized ; whereas it had not seen one genera 
tion in America and was now protected by law in several States 
and that a law had recently been passed in N"ew York State. He 
said lie had not heard of it, and asked the nature of the Ac* 
passed lately, and, after stating what it was, he said he considerec 
it a better law in some respect to the one they had, inasmuch tlial 
