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ANDREW SMITH. 
L. L. asks, “ Is there a royal road to graduation in which either 
brains or money can pass ?” All the money required is fifty -dollars per 
* session for two sessions, and only twenty-five if a student desires or 
requires to attend a third ; but it is positively necessary that a candi¬ 
date for graduation should possess the other essential in an eminent 
degree. For the further information of L. L. I may state the fact that 
if a gentleman possesses brains and a diploma from the Ontario Veter¬ 
inary College he can very soon command both position and money. 
Mr. Editor, I heartily endorse the liberal views with which you 
favor your readers in your editorial on the Veterinary profession in 
America. I believe far better results will arise from pursuing such a 
course as you so ably advocate, than by writing disparagingly of many 
highly respected practitioners who through force of circumstances have 
not had an opportunity of becoming members of the profession. 
I am, sir, yours, 
. Andrew Smith, 
Principal Toronto Veterinary College. 
Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 15, 1877. 
To the Editor of the American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sir : I crave a small place in your valuable journal to set right a 
remark made by Mr. McEachran some few numbers back where, in his 
paper on Veterinary Education, he says that a former student of the Onta- ( 
rio Veterinary College who acted as an examiner at the spring examination 
of that institution, remarked to him that the examination made him (the 
examiner) blush for tl\e low standard that he himself was graduated on. 
Reading this passage my memory carried me back to a conversation Mr. 
McE. and I held some short time previously, wherein I remarked that the 
Examination was much severer than the one in which I graduated. The 
whole force of the remark went to show the improvement that had taken 
place in the institution, not but what I thought the examination that I 
passed in 1868 fully up to the standard. I immediately wrote to Mr. 
McEachran, mentioning the affair, and asking if in his paper he alluded 
to me, and shortly after received a reply, very kind and friendly in its 
tone, but without a single allusion to the point at issue. I then wrote 
him again but have received no reply, thence my reason for now putting 
the remark in its proper sense. It certainly, is not pleasant to have 
one’s remarks in a conversation twisted around to make a desired point. 
But perhaps Mr. McE. misunderstood my remarks, and perhaps he has 
mislaid my letter, and thence his want of courtesy in not replying. 
