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studies by allowing entry without examination of candidates 
furnished with a Diploma of Bachelor, and by affording 
advantages to candidates who can give evidence of more 
extended knowledge than the programme demands ? Is not 
this well adapted to the necessities of recruiting for our 
ranks, since it leaves the entry into the profession open to 
those who are able only to satisfactorily fulfil the conditions 
of the programme, while it encourages higher education than 
that which the programme demands. 
But is not the time come for the enlargement of the pro¬ 
gramme which we deem necessary to preserve, so far, intact 
in such a manner as to compel candidates to more extended 
studies which will the better adapt their minds to those to 
which they must give attention after admission. On this 
point there was complete agreement, as expressed by the reso¬ 
lution “that the conditions of admission into the veterinary 
schools should be so modified, that stress be laid upon such 
scientific matters as mathematics, chemistry, physics, and 
natural history.” 
On the question of suppression of the “ extern pupil and 
free auditor system, the opinions of the Congress was equally 
unanimous. The extern system was founded in the consi¬ 
deration that it would suit a certain number of pupils who 
would wish to extend their studies by availing themselves of 
means of instruction outside the schools. It has not proved 
so, for the majority of extern pupils have availed them¬ 
selves of their opportunity to enter into other matters than 
such as belong to their studies. In this respect the Congress 
did well to demand suppression of the “ externat,” and we 
know that its vote, perfectly in conformity as it was with 
the intentions of the administration, has been realised in the 
course of the same year.” 
At the same sitting the delicate question of private prac¬ 
tice by the Clinical professors at the schools was handled. 
M. Viseur considered that they should not practice outside 
the walls of the school, and should entirely confine their 
labours to instruction. They ought to simply act as con¬ 
sulting practitioners that they might retain the prominent 
position which they ought to have firm intention to maintain. 
As consultants they would have the aid of all their confreres 
who often having been their pupils, would preserve towards 
them the deference resulting from the nature of their first 
relations. Conflicting interests might otherwise cause forget¬ 
fulness of that deference which it is advisable to preserve. 
M. Quivogne supported the same opinion by illustrations 
drawn from the town where he resides, of the difficulties 
