EDITORIAL. 
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fide students ; and is composed of young men who are fully able to 
appreciate the importance of their studies, and the seriousness of the 
task before them. 
The result which will necessarily follow, will be the turning out of 
a better class of educated men, and more worthy of the confidence of the 
people. That it is a profession which will afford to those entering it social 
respect, satisfaction, and pecuniary return, is plainly shown by the posi¬ 
tion obtained by the alumni of the school, as all of them to-day com¬ 
mand a practice more or less lucrative; a practice worth from $4,000 
downward to $1,200, and that after only a few years of labor. How 
many young men graduates of human medicine are there, who cannot 
boast of such satisfactory results ? 
And still these are obtained from graduates out of what might be called 
private schools. What would it be if the diplomas, which the alumni 
possess, had been granted by a school supported by general appropria¬ 
tion ? by a school where, like in Europe, the labors of the teachers 
would be entirely devoted to the education of the students ? and would 
not be, in the majority of cases, obliged to resort to private practice, to 
provide the needs of common life. 
We hope, however, that the day will come when our Government 
will see the importance of our profession ; when the necessity of follow¬ 
ing the example laid before us by Europe, will be realized by our Secre¬ 
tary of Agriculture, or our large agricultural institutions; and that, 
once for all, veterinary medicine will occupy, amongst scientific bodies, 
the place to which it has so much claim —second to none. Veterinary 
medicine has, for the last few years, made some progress ; the founda¬ 
tion of veterinary schools, and their successes ; that of veterinary 
societies, and their works, the interest shown by all the classes of 
people, tell us that we may look for an important change in tha# 
direction, and that if all the veterinarians of the continent will only 
work well together, that change will come in a short time. 
Several numbers of the Review have presented to our readers 
articles from different persons relating to Veterinary Education. The 
subject was fully treated by the Principal of the Montreal Veterinary 
College, and answers, more or less to the point, were at times published. 
For our last issues and that of this month, letters were sent to us with 
the same title, but which were more ot a personal character than we 
would have liked to see them, and as, after all, no one can be benefited 
