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W. L. WILLIAMS. 
Another inevitable change in the near future is better col¬ 
lege buildings and equipments. 
A college professor recently wrote about a “ livery stable ” 
appearance in the front of some of our veterinary colleges. 
Exploration of some of them from front to rear and basement 
to roof only emphasizes the comparison in arrangement, care 
and odor. So when graduates take offices in badly kept livery 
stables does it not make him feel as though he still saw and 
smelt his alma mater? 
Several of our colleges have very creditable buildings conve¬ 
niently located in reference to clinical resources, but most of 
these have no grounds beyond the walls of the building. 
Notable exceptions to this rule are shown by the University 
of Pennsylvania and Cornell. 
The former has tasteful and spacious buildings with ample 
grounds, in direct connection with the other parts of the univer¬ 
sity, while the college at Cornell enjoys as tasteful and commo¬ 
dious buildings, in as commanding a position as almost any of 
the great buildings on that highly picturesque campus. 
The u livery-stable ” veterinary college is passing, the union 
between the colleges and great universities is growing in close¬ 
ness and solidity, veterinary professors are rendering like ser¬ 
vices with the same skill and devotion, they sit in the same 
university faculty, receive the same pay, move in the same uni¬ 
versity society as other college professors. We shall soon see 
generally, as has already been seen at Cornell, our profession 
recognized by veterinarians upon university boards of trustees. 
A self-respecting university cannot long maintain a college 
whose graduates she cannot accept as educated gentlemen fit for 
association with other alumni, neither can the university suffer 
one of its colleges to remain long in a livery stable. 
If one knows the colleges which educate the members of a 
profession he knows the profession. 
The most hopeful sign to-day of the future of our profession 
is that those colleges requiring the highest entrance examina¬ 
tions and the longest courses of study with faculties rendering 
