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NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY COLLEGE. 245
all the work gone over, or offer satisfactory certificates of the comple
tion of such work in other schools whose entrance requirements and
courses of study are equivalent to those of this college. No person
will be admitted to any advanced class except at the of beginning the
college year in September.
Applicants for advanced standing from other colleges must send or
present letters of honorable dismissal, and furnish the Director, Dr.
James Law, with a catalog containing the courses of instruction in
the institution from which they come with a duly certified statement
of the studies pursued and their proficiency therein, and also a state
ment of the entrance requirements with the rank gained. To avoid
delay these credentials should be forwarded at an early date in order
that the status of applicants may be determined and information
furnished concerning the class to which they are likely to be admitted.
Graduates of veterinary colleges whose requirements for graduation
are not equal to those of the New York State Veterinary College may
be admitted provisionally upon such terms as the faculty may deem
equitable in each case, regard being had to the applicant's previous
course of study and attainments. In this connection,
attention is
called to the legal requirements of academic and professional educa
tion for the practice of Veterinary
York.
Medicine in the State of New
Admission to Advanced and Special Work. The ample facili
ties for advanced and special work in the New York State Veterinary
College, with allied departments in Cornell University, are open to
graduates of this institution and of other colleges whose entrance
requirements and undergraduate courses are equivalent.
COURSES IN VETERINARY MEDICINE.
With the view of raising the standard of veterinary instruction, it is
intended to establish a graded course extending over four years, as in
the various departments of Cornell University, and in the best veteri
nary schools abroad. As a step toward this a three year course has
been laid out. This is a decided advance upon any Veterinary College
in America, as the majority of even the three year schools give only
months'
five instruction per year amounting to but fifteen months in
all ; while with an academic year of nine months, the New York State
Veterinary College furnishes a total instruction period of twenty-seven
months. Add to this that the Veterinary Practice Statute, prescribing
two years of successful high school work as the condition of entering
on studies
veterinary
in 1896, and four years of high school work for
admission in 1897, adds more than an additional year to anything de-