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...introduced by Morris H. Morgan '81, Ph.D., LL.D., University Marshal. Dean Smith gave a detailed account of the development in the instruction of dentistry at Harvard College. Following this, Henry A. Christian '03, A.M., M.D., Dean of the Medical School, spoke on the relations of the two schools, one to the other, emphasizing the benefits each could derive from the other. The Alumni Chorus next sang "Unfold Ye Portals," after which George V. I. Brown, M.D., D.D.S., C.M., of the University of Iowa, spoke at length on the future of the two schools...
...office and his laboratory. The X-rays enables him to see clearly the condition of an ill-shaped jaw, or of misplaced teeth, and exactly what has happened to a fractured jaw. In a perfectly equipped dental laboratory or operating room, such as the new Dental Building contains, one may see in use a great variety of apparatus in which electrical current, compressed air, gas, and water are all ingeniously applied to producing a great variety of delicate and exquisite effects. The work to be done is all exact, and much of it is minute. The whole Dental Building illustrates...
...inflamed teeth and abscesses in the jaws, both of which are apt to give exquisite pain. It is much to say of any profession that it reduces the amount or the intensity of human pain, for pain is an unmixed evil, and whoever abates it for multitudes or for one individual, is a real benefactor. As life advances, dentistry is able to repair the loss of teeth caused by wear, accident, and disease; that is, dentistry can supply artificial teeth singly, in groups, or in sets, and by doing so can check or in part prevent the dilapidation...
...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 preventive medicine...
...That the committee prepare general rules for the choice of electives, to be approved by the Faculty, based upon the principle that a student must take a considerable amount of work in some one field, and that the rest of his courses must be well distributed...