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return the following year. During this conversation I was cor¬ 
dially and courteously asked to return and take my degree at the 
end of the next year. The inducement was presented to me, that 
a desirable position could probably be obtained in the College. 
This was my status in the Arnerican College at the close of the 
session of 1875-6. I take it for granted, the Dr. acted in per¬ 
fectly good faith with me. 
In the autumn of 1876, I started east for the purpose of spend¬ 
ing a second year in a veterinary college. I had not yet made a 
selection of an institution, but had decided to visit the colleges at 
Toronto and Montreal before going to 17. Y., should I finally de¬ 
cide to go there. After spending a day in the Ontario College , I 
decided to remain there during the winter. One of the principal 
causes that induced me to make this choice was the fact that the 
college year continued a month or six weeks later than that of the 
American , thus affording me so much longer time for study. I 
remained here till April, ’77, when I completed the course and 
took my degree. Now w r as there anything irregular or dishonor¬ 
able in this, either on my own part or that of the Ontario College ? 
The facts are, if I had chosen to do so, I could have taken my 
examination at the American with at least a month less time for 
preparation than I had at the Ontario. I do not say this with 
any intention to disparage the American College , hut because it is 
the simple truth which justice demands. 
Now w T hy all this outcry ? Had I done as I was solicited to 
do, by the authorities of the American College , I certainly would 
have been regarded by the friends of that institution as an honor¬ 
able member of the profession; why my preference for acquain¬ 
ting myself with the methods of another institution, and taking a 
month more time for preparation should render me less so, is a 
question which I am quite willing to leave to the judgment of 
all fair-minded men. 
After all this is said, the important question with either insti¬ 
tution should be, and I believe is , the capabilities of the applicant 
for a degree. The prescribed two years in either of the colleges 
does not signify so much as some of these u wise men (!) from the 
East,” would seem to believe. I knew students in botli the Amer- 
