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EDITORIAL. 
will enable them to complete more satisfactory preparations 
than have hitherto existed. 
A COLLEGE WITHOUT A FACULTY. 
The novel spectacle of a college opening its doors for the 
reception of students, with a pretentious announcement of its 
facilities for imparting a veterinary education, virtually without 
a teaching faculty, is presented to the public by an alleged 
school down in Tennessee. The National Association was 
urged to visit that section in 1897 for what good it would 
probably confer upon the profession in Dixie, and as this school 
sprung up in the wake of its presence there it is presumed that 
its august deliberations inspired certain self-made veterinarians 
with the desire to seek fame in a higher sphere than had been 
vouchsafed to them in earlier life. Its sole owner and pro¬ 
moter, we are informed, is innocent of any knowledge of the 
science which he professes to teach, except that which comes 
from hard practical experience, while those by whom he is sur¬ 
rounded in his “ faculty ” are mostly medical men with more 
knowledge of other subjects than veterinary science, the only 
other member, aside from the owner, who is bold enough to 
affix “ V. S.” to his name being an individual unknown to 
local veterinarians, despite diligent search throughout the sec¬ 
tion. Those who were resting under the belief that veterinary 
medicine in this country had advanced to a position where 
such institutions were a matter of history are given a sudden 
awakening and realization that never in the days of “ diploma 
mills” did so-called schools affront the public with less claim to 
merit than one or two which have recently come into existence 
under the sovereign laws of their respective commonwealths. 
What is the remedy? We do not know. While their utter 
incompetency to fulfil their announcement pledges is patent 
to all veterinarians, it is less easy to convince the legal 
authorities that they are impositions upon the public and bar¬ 
nacles upon an honorable profession. The dupes who may be 
buncoed into attending their sessions may rise in a spirit of 
