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EDITORIAL. 
ergy, work and teachings have made of a former student a trustworthy 
member of a profession. 
Graduates of the same school, members of the United States Vet¬ 
erinary Medical Association to which you belong, your alma mater, the 
American Veterinary College, may feel proud of your professional con¬ 
duct, and wish you success in your new undertaking. 
VETERINARY APPOINTMENT. 
The Scientific Farmer , of Boston, gives us the announcement that 
our friend Charles P. Lyman, V. S. E., of Springfield, Mass., has been 
engaged to lecture on veterinary matters to the Massachusetts Agricul¬ 
tural College. We sincerely congratulate the Doctor on his appoint¬ 
ment ; so much so that we understand that his course of lectures will be 
only on “such portions of veterinary science and practice as will be of 
special value to the students as prospective owners of live stock.” We 
feel certain that he will do justice to his subject, and will take advan¬ 
tage of the experience laid before him by the article of Prof. Law, in 
limiting his subject to general common rules of practice in those cases 
where veterinary assistance is little needed, or, in cases pf emergency, 
to wait until the arrival of the proper attendant. 
VETERINARY INSTRUCTION. 
Editor Country Gentleman : 
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It may be justly claimed that these colleges of Boston and Phila¬ 
delphia were managed by mere pretenders and adventurers, while no 
graduates of any reputable veterinary college have ever fallen so low. 
But this is healing the wound altogether too slightly ; the source of the 
trouble lies much deeper.* All regular graduates of veterinary medicine 
are not immaculate , and the veteri?wry profession cannot close its doors 
effectually against every hypocritical scoundrel who sees in its degree a step¬ 
ping stone to the acquisition of filthy lucre. Even the regular graduates of 
the veterinary colleges are found among us laying claim to titles to which 
they have no right , and acting altogether in the most improfessional manner. 
The source of danger in the schools in question lay in their private 
and irresponsible character. Let it be possible for private individuals 
to obtain a charter authorizing them to grant degrees, without fear of 
# Italics are ours.— Ed. 
