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CORRESPONDENCE. 
Veterinary College is supplying by turning out from year to year 
men well qualified to practice their profession with credit to them¬ 
selves and satisfaction to their clients. 
Mr. B. sneers at the mere curers. Is not the first duty of the 
physician to heal the sick ? He speaks of them being able to 
take no part in sanitary medicine. There are to-day graduates of 
the A. V. C. giving valuable aid in the suppression of contagions 
pleuro-pneumonia in this and in New York State. When the 
Chateau d’Espagne of our friend from Berlin is completed, the 
private schools are to be wiped out; he will find that the Ameri¬ 
can Veterinary College will never be wiped out or even injured 
by such an institution as he proposes to found. Our little college 
is the fruition of patient, hopeful work, of self-denial, of love for 
the profession. The years of gratuitous service rendered by the 
professors of our institution, the time given that could have been 
appropriated to the pecuniary benefit of the giver, the money 
given as the need arose, the steadfast march on toward the right, 
all this done without fuss or flourish of trumpets, has had for 
effect to build the foundation of our alma mater' on a rock. 
Mr. Billings will never gain a similar stability by trying to 
lift himself into notoriety by the waist-band of his breeches. He 
will never elevate himself or his chimerical institution by trying 
to pull other worthy people down. Let this young man, before 
he commences to run everything pertaining to veterinary science 
in the United States, show us of what metal he is made; let him 
make a reputation as a man and a practitioner, and place himself 
above the need of informing the public that he is the son of his 
father and the first American graduate of Berlin in the United 
States. 
Lastly, I can assure him that he need not worry about the 
time allowed graduates of other colleges, who repair to the “ Holy 
of Holies branch of the original institution in Berlin ”—they 
won’t bother him. 
There is but one degree toward which the graduate of the A. 
V. C. looks longingly; it is that of M.D., obtained by hard work 
from a good school. I am, Mr. Editor, 
An Amused Graduate of the A. V. C. 
