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EDITORIAL. 
Included in the report of the Committee on Intelligence 
and Education of the Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical 
Association, read at the animal meeting in March, occurs this 
paragraph : “ Great opposition has been raised in New York 
State by the action of the State Examining Board in making 
the standard of entrance so high. We have been informed that 
no less than eight bills are before the Legislature at the present 
time for the purpose of having the standard lowered.” As the 
' above paragraph is so pregnant with misstatements, and so mis¬ 
represents the situation in this State, we feel that the facts should 
be stated to the profession. The State Examining Board has ab¬ 
solutely nothing to do with the entrance requirements ; they ex¬ 
amine candidates for license to practice only, the Board of Re¬ 
gents being the censor of the qualification of the students enter¬ 
ing the colleges. While the committeeman has been informed 
of eight bills before the Legislature to reduce the high stand¬ 
ard, the Review knows of not one. While about that number 
of bills bearifig upon the profession in one sense or another 
were presented at the last session, none had for their object the 
reduction of the counts required by the Regents. We are glad 
to say, however, that the force of argument and sound judg¬ 
ment has accomplished that important object, which is an¬ 
nounced elsewhere in this issue. 
We are glad to announce that the threatened financial inter¬ 
ference with the efficient work of the Pennsylvania State Live 
Stock Sanitary Board has been averted, and that its offices are 
being fulfilled as before. It would be a great crime against the 
health and wealth of the State should such narrow-minded poli¬ 
tics prevail. 
The uncertainty of safety in American bottoms upon the 
high seas during the present war with Spain will not seriously 
interfere with the exportation of horses, as the vessels of neutral 
nations will be safe convoys of our live stock. 
