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JAMES LAW. 
But I must not close without noticing that phase of “Cornell” 
which relates to the education of veterinary practitioners. Our Regis¬ 
ter has yearly announced that “ in veterinary science an opportunity is 
afforded to students who desire it, to pursue the study of veterinary 
medicine and surgery further than is provided for in the regular courses 
of the school.” This was introduced with the hope of one day devel¬ 
oping it into a fully equipped veterinary college, and thus carrying out 
the desire of our founder to “found an institution in which any person 
could obtain instruction in any study.” We did not and do not profess 
to have attained to our desires in this respect. With commencing and 
advanced classes to conduct through studies in veterinary anatomy, 
physiology, hygiene, pathology, medicine, surgery, obstetrics, therapeu¬ 
tics, jurisprudence, shoeing, etc., etc., there is more to do than any one 
man could accomplish. I have, however, at different times consented 
to conduct one class at a time through these various studies, and as a 
matter of fact the University has in nine years conferred veterinary 
degrees on two candidates. Of these two we have no call to be ashamed 
whether we regard them as educated men or as veterinarians. In some 
respects these veterinary students have had special advantages. During 
their first two years in the University they could compass a number of 
important preliminary studies, which are essentially connected with a 
veterinary medical course. These, botany, chemistry, physiology, 
hygiene, comparative anatomy, zoology, and histology could be pursued 
at this early stage, and prove a preliminary course of the most valuable 
kind. No such full preliminary course can be obtained in the average 
agricultural college, where one teacher usually takes the whole range of 
natural history. Then the last two years which are exclusively devoted 
to veterinary studies, like all our academic years, extend over nine 
months each, independent of holidays. 
Even as regards time, then, our students have the advantage of 
those attending American and English veterinary schools. Some of 
these have but two years, of five months each, including the long Christ¬ 
mas holidays. Even those that demand a three years’ course only 
count up three fives—fifteen months in all, from which the holidays are 
still to be deducted. Now, in addition to the collateral studies pursued 
in their first two University years, our veterinary students have two full 
years of nine months each, over and above all holidays, amounting to 
eighteen months in all, or three months more than are demanded to 
complete a three years’ course in the American Veterinary College. 
Moreover, our students, having already had two years’ drilling in Uni- 
