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veterinarians all over the United States who are recognized as 
scholarly gentlemen. 
Veterinary Education .—In 1890 the two years’ course was 
common all over the United States and Canada. There were 
but few exceptions. The change to a three-year course was so 
rapidly made during the early nineties that within a few years 
there were but two veterinary schools of any prominence in the 
United States or Canada that granted diplomas at the comple¬ 
tion of a two years’ course. I can best illustrate veterinary 
education in America by taking one of our good schools and 
discussing the course of study and facilities of the institution. 
The youngest veterinary college of any prominence in America 
is the New York State Veterinary College at Cornell Univer¬ 
sity, New York. On the faculty list of this institution occur 
such names as Pres. Schurman, of the University ; Dr. James 
Law, famous alike in America and Europe as a practitioner, 
student and author; Dr. W. L. Williams, one of the most promi¬ 
nent members of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 
and well known throughout the United States and Canada ; and 
Dr. V. A. Moore, whose work as bacteriologist in the study of 
hoo- cholera has made him famous. This institution is located 
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at Ithaca on the campus of Cornell University. The buildings 
which belong exclusively to this institution are seven in num¬ 
ber. I fancy that many of the medical men attending this asso¬ 
ciation meeting would be surprised if they were to visit the 
amphitheatre operating room, and note every convenience and 
appurtenance that goes with modern surgery ; or the dissecting 
rooms and note the precautions that have been taken to secure 
all the desirable features which belong to a modern dissecting 
room ; or the hospital and note how perfectly the conditions 
meet the requirements, for instance in the infectious disease 
ward ; or the pathological and bacteriological laboratories and 
note the splendid equipment. 
Candidates for admission into this school must possess the 
preliminary education represented by a course requiring at least 
forty-eight regents’ counts in a registered academy or high 
