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versity work, come to us with a habit and power of systematic applica¬ 
tion which count immensely in their favor as compared with those who 
have been denied these advantages. 
Again, after their first two University years, our students are already 
so far advanced in French or German, or both, that they can avail of 
the elaborate text-books in one or both of these tongues, instead of 
being confined to the comparatively meagre manuals hitherto found on 
most subjects in English. 
Finally, as regards your call for a full Veterinary Department in 
Cornell University. For this I have hoped against hope for nine long- 
years. But “ Cornell ” has not at present the means of establish¬ 
ing such a college, and as far as can be seen, she can only hope for 
such a desirable consummation through the openheartedness of some 
public benefactor, who will endow one or more additional chairs in this 
department. But, if you will kindly allow me the privilege of dissent, 
I may say that I would use my voice and influence against its being 
established in a different locality, w r here it would retain but an empty 
name, while it would lose all the real advantages to be derived from a 
connection with the University. The name of Cornell University is 
not a talisman to conjure with, and for the University to lend her name 
to any school—medical, veterinary or legal—to be established in some 
distant part of the State, would be an act altogether unworthy of her 
history and antecedents. 
In conclusion, and lest I should be again misunderstood, let me 
recall the subject of my letter to the Country Gentleman. The subject 
was “Colleges for the Education of Veterinarians,” the occasion being 
the exposure of the corrupt practices in the “ Philadelphia Veterinary 
College In reflecting on these and their counterparts at Boston, I 
pointed out that veterinary colleges ought to have a better oversight, and 
should be removed from any temptation to such practices, by the sim¬ 
ple expedient of making such practices impossible. I pointed out the 
desirability of following the leading of Europe in establishing a Natiotial 
Veterinary School , on a scale worthy of the United States, and as a 
means of protecting our immense and steadily growing live stock inter¬ 
ests. I pointed out that the proposal to educate veteri?iarians by 
attaching a veterinary chair to West Point or to any agricultural college 
would be utterly inadequate to the end desired, and would simply open 
an outlet for a vast amount of government money to accomplish a pur¬ 
pose to which it was not equivalent. That we might as well attach a 
physician to each State Agricultural College, and thus constitute it a 
