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by crnshing every eompetitor, so that its light may shine the 
more brightly. 
No argument eaii exist where one side alone is heard, 
and we weleome the words of the writer for the purpose whieh 
they serve, whieh is to exhibit the objeet of the law. With a 
profound air of heroie duty performed, he says that we have 
plaeed the standard high and will await the time when the 
profession shall grow np to it—pointing to the old European 
countries maintaining sneh a status as examples of its snccessfnl 
coition, without apparently reflecting that the profession was 
more than a century old in Prance and Germany when the seeds 
were first sown in America to germinate and grow. At the 
same rate of development his standard will have to tower above 
the profession for the next hundred years to catch np to the 
examples he points to. 
In the meantime, we have it upon the best of authority that 
the Regents are appalled at the results of the 48-connts upon 
the scientific schools of the State, and one high in authority in 
their councils has made the prediction that at the same ratio of 
decrease all except endowed institutions will be without stu¬ 
dents in a year or two. The endowed schools are “ successful ” 
if a single student attends regularly, for by that means the qual¬ 
ity IS high if the quantity is low—and the faculty will be en¬ 
abled to draw their stipend just the same. With grand facili¬ 
ties, both in appliances and in faculty, free as the air of Ithaca, 
is it not passing strange that, if the law is going to benefit the 
profession at large, that there was not an influx of students at 
the State College, instead of a little handful of students who 
have to be counted twice in order to make half a dozen ? 
Modify the law 5 keep it at a two-year high-school standard 
until it is reasonable to raise it further; build up instead of 
tearing down. R R B 
DANGERS OF PRIVATE SLAUGHTER-HOUSES. 
While in most large cities, slaughter-houses and abattoirs 
are more or less under sanitary regulations and veterinary 
