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EDITORIAL. 
the letter of Dr. Gerald E. Griffin, of the Fifth Cavalry, now 
stationed at Huntsville, Ala., published elsewhere in this issue 
of the Review, will bring the subject more practically before 
the veterinary public, and cause a blush of shame and outraged 
manhood to take root so deeply that every reader will feel that 
it is his business to use every exertion to bring about an immed¬ 
iate and radical change in existing conditions. Following Dr. 
Griffin’s graphic description of the service is a pathetic appeal 
from that true and tried veterinarian. Dr. M. J. Treacy, which 
is so manfully and humanely portrayed as to touch a responsive 
chord in the hearts of all who read it. 
The Review has been doing what it could for the cause of j 
the army veterinarian for years, and it feels more desire to press j 
the issue now than ever before. If the profession can advance ! 
a single step by recourse to its pages, it is theirs wholly and | 
completely. j 
OPENING OF THE COLLEGES. | 
During the first week in October almost all the veterinary j 
colleges of America will open their doors for the session of 1898- I 
99, and reports from a number of them indicate that there will | 
be a healthy increase in attendance over the past few years. | 
There are very few (two or three) which do not require a three- I 
years’ course, and the graduates from those who adhere to the I 
short course are so restricted in their liberties when their diplo- ; 
mas are received that the numbers who are willing to accept s 
them is getting less all the time. It is to be hoped that this ’ 
is the last session that they will ever open under such auspices. ; 
When their sister colleges are doing so much for the elevation ! 
of the standard of education, they can well afford to fall in line. | 
There might be an excuse for their remaining without the rule | 
if serious opposition existed ; but the field is clear and level; ; 
no inducements can be thrown out by other schools except su- i 
perior teaching facilities. ' 
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