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should be required. It is sincerely to be hoped that the faculty will 
support him in making the much to be desired reforms. If I under¬ 
stand the meaning of “the attendance on two full courses of medical 
lectures, the last being in this college” correctly, all that is necessary 
is the attendance for four and a half months, that is, any medical 
student who has attended lectures for one session, can after four months 
and a half or five, present himself for examination, and if he has read 
up enough, obtain the diploma certifying him qualified to practice. 
How can he be? What can he know of practice, unless he has been 
following quackery before? I trust not many follow this system— 
even suppose they attend the two sessions at the veterinary college, is 
it possible that a science so abstruse, so comprehensive as to embrace 
almost all sciences can be mastered in nine or ten months ? for as I 
before stated very few either practice or study during summer. 
Again the “oral and practical examination being by the professors 
of each department of instruction, is certainly not to be recommended, 
nor will the public accept its results as being as reliable as if they 
were examined by an outside and impartial board of examiners, uncon¬ 
nected with the college. It is to be regretted that a college, capable 
as it is, with an eminent teacher at its head, a valuable museum, excell¬ 
ent infirmary accommodation, and located in such a city as New York, 
should not adopt a curriculum in keeping with the progress of the pro¬ 
fession and their great opportunities. 
At Cornell University we find Veterinary Science occupying a 
position creditable alike to that university and to Professor James 
Law, F. R. C. V. S., who ably fills the chair of Veterinary Science. 
Here we find the regular course embraces: “ First, five lectures per 
week extending over the academic year. Secondly, laboratory work 
on bones, skeletons, clastic models, pathological preparation and para¬ 
sites. Thirdly, clinical instruction on the cases occurring in practice. 
For the degree of Bachelor of Veterinary Science a four years course 
is provided for, the last two years of which are entirely devoted to 
special veterinary studies, and embrace a most complete curriculum, 
Anatomy, Physiology, Histology, Zootechny, Hygiene, Botany, Toxi¬ 
cology, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, 
Obstetrics, Surgical Pathology and Anatomy, Examination for sound¬ 
ness, Principles of shoeing, Physiological and Pathological. 
It will thus be seen that the course at Cornell is quite up to the 
requirements in the theoretical branches, but it is questionable if the 
