CORRESPONDENCE. 
477 
Fully nine-tenths of all students in the junior class left col¬ 
lege during the first week of the month of March, and that too, 
without being required to undergo or pass any examination as 
junior students. Of course, a few, perhaps a dozen of the 
students in the junior class, remained and attended college until 
the close of the session, then passed a so-called junior examin¬ 
ation, which entitled some students to receive small prizes, while 
others received only honorable mention in the annual announce¬ 
ment of the college. There was not ten per cent, of the junior 
class examined on any subject pertaining to their studies as 
junior veterinary students. 
About three-fifths of the students in the junior class manage 
to attend college only a part of a session. Those “short cut” 
students usually return at the beginning of the next session, are 
not required to undergo or pass any examination, but are gener¬ 
ously registered and entered as senior students, and fully ninety- 
five per cent, of them graduate and receive diplomas at the close 
of the session. There are some senior students who do not 
attempt to study or even pretend to know anything about veter¬ 
inary science, aud such students are occasionally compelled to 
attend a part of a third session, which costs twenty-five dollars ; 
though in some cases those students do not attend any part of 
a third session, but merely pay their fee and then appear before 
the Board of Examiners, which usually meets during the latter 
part of the month of December. 
Take into consideration the fact that there is neither spring 
or summer session, and it is evident that attendance at the 
lectures in a veterinary college for a period of five or six Weeks 
must necessarily constitute a very brief experience as a junior 
student. Such liberality might be considered “worthy of a 
better course,” if they did not always charge a full fee as if the 
junior student attended a whole session, instead of only a part br 
fraction of a session. There is no matriculation examination of 
any kind, and the only requirements and qualifications necessary 
for admissiou is the ability to pay the college fees, which are very 
moderate indeed. 
A fee of ten dollars is invariably charged for the diploma, 
