THE FUTURE OF THE VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
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the veterinary student must pay for the enomous increase in cost. 
The new veterinary education is naturally looked upon un¬ 
favorably by the old. State and endowed institutions maintain 
faculties numerically less than the earlier type, pay more for 
their services, and expect more or all of their time and energy. 
The commercial institutions criticise the brief list of their 
teachers, and for their own colleges advertise an extended fac¬ 
ulty list, practically unpaid, the professorships at times proba¬ 
bly selling at a premium, the work being light and the adver¬ 
tising medium appearing to them good. 
Some years since a trustworthy graduate of a college having 
one of the largest faculty lists, when asked incidentally regard¬ 
ing a certain professor of a major subject, assured me he did not 
know him, and that during his two years’ regular attendance 
he had not seen nor heard of him, though during that time, to 
my knowledge, his place of business was but a few minutes’ 
walk from the college. Another important teacher and officer 
of the institution, at near the same time, required a three-days’ 
journey by fast express to reach the lecture-room and regularly 
spent his evenings at home with his family. Aside from ad¬ 
vertising, it requires a greater number of such men than their 
total faculty list to equal one man of ability present and at 
work. 'The demand and requirement is for teachers at living 
wages whose whole time, energy, mind and soul is dedicated to 
his one work. More than that, the veterinary teacher of the 
future must be a student among students, a thorough investi¬ 
gator, a contributor to veterinary knowledge. 
All investigators of veterinary subjects are valuable teachers, 
whether holding the title of professor in a college or not, and 
all holding professorships in veterinary colleges who are not 
students of and contributors to veterinary knowledge are frauds, 
and schools based upon a faculty consisting of such men are 
frauds of the vilest kind. In the future the value of a college 
faculty must be based upon the quality and quantity of teach¬ 
ing done supported by original research and contributions to 
our store of veterinary knowledge. 
