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which 1 became a member of the veterinary profession, I trust it 
will give space for a very brief article by way of reply. There 
is no form of literature so cheap as calumny, and none that a 
piofessional man can better allow to pass unnoticed j and were it 
not for the fact that the Review seemingly gives sanction to these 
articles by tacitly handing them out to the public, I would not 
think it necessary to give them a second thought. 
In these articles a labored effort is put forth to show that 
there was some dishonorable practice on the part of the Ontario 
Veterinary College in conferring a degree on me with less than 
the proper requirements: that mine was a case of premature 
delivery. Now let us take the American Veterinary College as 
a standard of comparison for judging of honorable graduation, 
I believe none of these articles have insinuated that it is open to 
the charge of partiality or half-way work with its students, and 
what this institution would do, may be looked upon as orthodox. 
With this fact before us, let us look a little into my own history 
in connection with that institution. 
I went to the American Veterinary College in December, 
1875, for the purpose of entering as a student. Before entering 
the class I advised with the principal (and present Editor of the 
Review,) as to whether I had best take all the lectures of the 
course during the remainder of the session, which had then been 
in progress some weeks. His advice was to omit a part of the 
lectures: those on portions of the subject I had studied during a 
previous college course, with better facilities than were offered by 
the American College. Accordingly I acted on this advice. But 
before doing so I inquired whether this omission would in any 
way interfere with my graduation the following year, should I 
decide to return to the institution to complete the course: to 
which inquiry I received the answer, “ it will not /” that I 
would not of course be exempt from examination on these sub¬ 
jects, but the omission would in no way be a bar to my eligibility 
to examination for the degree of the College , when I should have 
completed another year’s study. I continued in the College till 
the close of the session. Less than a week before I left N. Y., 
I had another conversation with the Dr. on the probability of my 
