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EDITORIAL. 
bating his mite to laying the corner-stone upon which is finally 
to be built the grand edifice of veterinary education. But we 
have found fault with the extreme and radical method which 
has been pursued, and we do so in the interests solely of that 
advancement which has been so ardently sought for and worked 
for. 
We give considerable space this month to an important com¬ 
munication from Prof. W. Iv. Williams, of the New York State 
Veterinary College, who plainly states that his views are at 
variance with those held by us. While his letter bears the 
stamp of sincerity and logical reasoning, it must be conceded 
that it would be singular indeed if the opinions he so well ex¬ 
presses did not find lodgment with him, for the reason that the 
interests which are nearest to him are the ones fostered and en¬ 
couraged by the statute in question. He fears, from the re¬ 
marks of the Review, that an effort is making to “ wipe out 
the entrance examinations ; and yet no such effort has been 
even hinted at in these pages. We have asked for a modifica¬ 
tion of the ridiculous requirements—in the name of our honored 
institutions, our integrity, and in the name of higher education ; 
modification, which means perpetuation, and the ability to lift 
it higher and higher, until it shall reach in time a more exalted 
standard than that with which we are at variance to-day. But j 
not by that prohibitive bound (“ abruptness ”—W. L. W.) which | 
sends students flying elsewhere and closes the doors of those 
schools which labored by love to advance the profession inch by 
inch, and which have a right to participate in the glories which 
they have made possible. | 
The Review exults that such institutions as the one adorned ; 
by the cooperation of Prof. Williams have been established^ j 
and feels assured that for teaching the higher branches of the j 
medical sciences the private colleges cannot hope to compete; i 
but we do not believe that simply because the State has endowed i 
it with a handsome annuity that it furnishes just cause for ■ 
that school to insist upon surrounding itself with laws that j 
shall make it the sole representative of education in the State ' 
