EDITORIAL. 
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ing in the first year of the new century were very strong. For 
nearly forty years her sons have been a powerful column in the 
work of the national organization, and in the years when the 
association was distinctively an Eastern body, its membership 
being confined to a narrow strip of country along the Atlantic 
seaboard—meeting one year in New York, the next in Boston, 
and again in Philadelphia—New Jersey was always passed by, 
and, strange as it may seem, there was never a meeting held 
within its borders. For years, also, it has struggled with the 
associational problem, being split into factional societies, pull¬ 
ing in opposite directions, and none of them being truly repre¬ 
sentative of the profession of the State as a whole. With a 
spirit of harmonious unity worthy of emulation in every State, 
and under the intelligent leadership of our own Lowe, these 
warring factions were last year cemented into one great, strong, 
and glorious State association, powerful to guard the interests 
of the profession of the commonwealth and to wield a mighty 
influence in that of the nation. The Review feels that the 
decision just reached is a fitting recognition of the claims of 
New Jersey upon the National Association, and believes that 
the latter will find profit and pleasure within her hospitable 
borders. 
HARVARD TO CLOSE ITS VETERINARY SCHOOL. 
We regret to find the following dispatch in the New York 
Times of Nov. 21 : 
Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 20.— Because of the successive annual de¬ 
ficits in the accounts of the Veterinary Department of the University the 
corporation of Harvard has decided to receive no more students for that 
department, but the students already in the school will be given suf¬ 
ficient instructions to obtain their degrees. 
One of the first, if not the very first, of the great universi¬ 
ties to hold forth a helping hand to a science which at the time 
was sorely in need of recognition and assistance by such high 
authority, the profession may well feel keen regret, at the decision 
which has been reached by the Corporation of the University. 
It was never a self-supporting department, we believe, but has 
