EDITORIAL. 
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OPENING OF VETERINARY COLLEGES. 
With this month’s return, the opening of the veterinary col¬ 
leges on this continent will take place. The American Veterinary 
College, in New York, opens the field on the 1st, Montreal on the 
6 th, Toronto on the 15th, Harvard has already begun, or is about 
entering into its second year, and Philadelphia has issued its an¬ 
nouncement that the opening lecture of the first session will be 
delivered on the second of the month by Prof. Huidekoper. What 
great changes, when compared with the condition of a few years 
a^o. Of course the attendance of students will vary ; some of 
our schools will have but few, while others will count them by 
hundreds. But no matter; there is in this no reason for those 
which are less privileged to feel discouraged, it is merely a ques¬ 
tion of time. If half a dozen veterinary schools are now in ex¬ 
istence in the country there is room for more. A larger number 
means more exertion on the part of the officers of each separate 
school, more exertion means better education and better facilities 
for study, and the grand result—advancement and elevation of 
our profession. The history of the veterinarian of the past 
closed with the establishment of veterinary schools twenty years 
ago; that of the veterinarian of the present is just now in its 
beginning; the veterinarian of the future, if we keep on, will in 
a few years equal, if not surpass, his much older confrere of the 
old world. After all, we can all feel proud of the progress that 
has been made. 
REGISTER OF GRADUATES OF VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
Continued from page 234. 
Alumni of Columbia Veterinary College. 
Balkam, Asa K. 
Berns, Geo. H. 
Bowers, Geo. F. 
Breder, Edward S. 
Brunn, Armin E. B. S 
Ckarum, Emilio. 
Cochran, David. 
Cuff, John. 
Cuff, W. A. E. 
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.Brooklyn, N. Y. 
.New York City. 
Brooklyn, N. Y, 
.New York City. 
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