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EDITORIAL. 
‘ ‘ This is a very important matter, and I hope that other physicians 
will investigate for themselves. John H. Trent, M.D. 
196 Seventeenth Street, Brooklyn. 
Tautotogicae Extravagance. —When one bears in mind 
how frequently the Joiirnal of Comparative Medicme^ etc.^ in¬ 
dulges in apologies to its readers for the omission of important 
articles on account of pressure upon its plethoric pages, it is diffi¬ 
cult to understand how so much valuable space could be spared 
in the editorial department of its November issue to print the 
same item three times, with the only object of showing that a 
paragraph which we had found in a prominent position in the 
New York Spirit of the Times^ had originally emanated from the 
editorial mind of the Jourjial^ without stopping to appreciate 
the fact that the only idea which the Review had in reprint¬ 
ing and crediting it to the New York sporting paper was to 
show veterinarians that the Anti-vivisection Bill was of such 
vital import as to call forth editorial comment from a powerful 
representative of the secular press. The junior editor of the 
Review is a close reader of the Journaly2Lr\^ always finds some¬ 
thing to interest, often to instruct, and sometimes to amuse. 
Higher Education is a slogan that every honorable man 
has delighted to reecho. But New York raised it so high at 
one bound as to lift the responsibility of education in the medi¬ 
cal sciences clear of its borders. With 48 counts for an entrance 
examination (which includes subjects as foreign to medical edu¬ 
cation as the Klondyke is from Patagonia) the State has driven 
thousands of students from the veterinary, dental, and medical 
schools into other States, whose laws are progressive but not 
prohibitive. Unless the law is modified, there will not be a 
corporal’s guard of students in' the Empire State, which was 
once the centre of medical education. 
A Prophetic Vision Indeed. —The Veterinary foiirnal 
(Eondon) for November gives up its entire editorial department 
