EDITORIAL. 
667 
to pass a matriculant examination in “civics,” “economics,” 
and “ rhetoric,” they will display more knowledge than one 
would suppose they possessed if they judged them by the stand¬ 
ard set in their demands of the student. 
There is only one salvation for the professional schools of 
New York State, and that consists in a modification of the law ; 
an amendment, having higher education as the objective point, 
but tempered by reasonable requirements, with some regard for 
the perpetuity of our honorable institutions, and the welfare of 
the Commonwealth. 
THE MODERN HORSE SHOW. 
The exhibition of horses in the show ring is comparatively' 
a new thing in this country. Agricultural and live stock fairs, 
where horses and other animals are exhibited in competition, 
are much older institutions. The “ horse show,” intended for 
the exhibition and competition of the soliped only, of different 
breeds and in different capacities, patronized by fashionable 
society, dates back but a few years. During the depressed days 
in all industries the value of horses decreased to such an extent 
that their treatment during sickness or disability was often not 
attempted, for the reason that it was cheaper to buy a new one at 
the prevailing low prices, than to bother with the incapacitated 
one. This was extremely disheartening and unprofitable to the 
veterinarian. No one at all posted upon eurrent events will 
gainsay the assertion that horseflesh is rapidly recovering its 
normal condition in value and utility, and that the bicycle craze 
is just as rapidly diminishing in popularity among those who 
ever had any love for the horse or who can afford the pleasure and 
luxury of his maintenance. Nothing has done more to sustain 
and inerease an interest in the soliped as a pleasure animal than 
the modern horse show. They have multiplied so rapidly that 
almost every city of any pretensions has its annual exhibition. 
A great deal of money is thus thrown into the pockets of the 
breeder, the dealer, and the veterinarian by exhibitors in their 
I efforts to capture the blue ribbon, and the horse itself is greatly 
