Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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"In its early stages dentistry was looked upon as a luxury of the rich, as a means of comfort and of health, and at the best of avoiding pain; but we now know that the care of the teeth and the mouth is one of the most important departments of...
"We know and we see that in the future the medical profession is to largely develop in the care of health not less than in the curing of disease, and nothing affects it more than the work which the dentist does. Therefore by its own development as well as by...
"The buildings which you have designed are so simple, so intelligently planned, so excellent in their lighting, so admirable in their equipment that they are little short of perfect in their entirety. But you speak of it as the Dental School. In a certain sense it is not a School...
"It is eminently fitting that these keys should be delivered to your hands (addressing the Dean of the Dental School) for it is by the effort, the earnest faith and the conscientious work of yourself and your colleagues that these buildings have been erected, and it is by your wisdom...
William W. Fenn '84, A.M., D.D., Dean of the Divinity School, closed the ceremonies with the benediction.