American Veterinary Review. 
MAY, 1898. 
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Roscoe R. Bell^ Seventh Ave. Union St., Borough of Brooklyn, New York City. 
EDITORIAL. 
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS REDUCED TO TWENTY- 
FOUR COUNTS IN NEW YORK STATE. 
At a conference of representatives of the veterinary schools 
and the Board of Regents of the Empire State the situation was 
thoroughly discussed, and the absolute fatality of the present 
entrance requirements, coming as they did with such sudden¬ 
ness, was shown and acknowledged, we believe, by all present. 
In support of the high standard, it was maintained that all 
professional schools were seriously affected in their attendance 
upon the inauguration of such an event, but that the reaction 
was so much in their favor that their classes were augmented 
beyond their former dimensions. Such a state of affairs was 
predicted for the veterinary colleges, but when it was shown 
that the demoralization of their classes amounted to their ex¬ 
tinction, the gravity of the situation became apparent to all, and, 
for the first time since the act became a law, some consideration 
for these old and honorable institutions was exhibited. The 
collegians were as unanimous and hearty in their demands for 
as high a standard as possible as the Regents’ representatives ; 
but they- conderiined in unmeasured terms the methods which 
were enforced by the statute to accomplish that object. They 
showed that no such precipitate action had been taken in the 
case of any other of the learned professions; that years of prep¬ 
aration were given them before the maximnm counts were 
enforced, while this, the youngest and most helpless of any, 
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