Veterinary Journal and Annals of Comparative Pathology (Volume 12) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: proud to refer to as choice friends, and who, I venture to anticipate, will earn for themselves distinguished positions in the profession, I should like to see a meeting of the students of the Royal Veterinary College held to support the advocacy of this important cause; but before steps could be taken in this direction, it is necessary to learn whether such a movement would meet with your approval. My belief is that it would, or I should not have ventured the suggestion; it seems to me that resolutions passed at a well-attended meeting of students would carry as much weight with the Government, proportionally, as similar resolutions passed at a meeting of any particular county or district; and especially would this be the case if you would lend your personal countenance to such a procedure. I would add that it is desirable no time should be lost if such a meeting is to take effect, because a goodly number now in the college, who, I doubt not, would give their earnest adhesion to the movement, will be presenting themselves for final examination in April next, after which they will be spread far and wide over the kingdom, and those remaining at the college would be left to prosecute the work without the advantage of their united support as students. I have purposely refrained from any suggestion as to the professors being asked to take part in such a meeting, because I do not know that they would All care to do so, and also because I feel the students are capable of walking out of leading-strings; but I take upon myself to say, that judging from past experience, I have no doubt whatever that if the students thought it desirable to seek such co-operation, they may certainly rely upon the countenance of our very able and much-esteemed Lecturer and Demonstrator of Anatomy. ...