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Your medical section reporter seems to have no knowledge of the dental profession (report on Chicago Dental Society meeting) [TIME, Feb. 8]. "D.D.S." means "Doctor of Dental Surgery" and is never accompanied by the title Mr. No dental student looks forward to being a specialist called a dental hygienist - unless a medical student looks forward to being a trained nurse. A dental hygienist is a young lady having a special one-year course in the proper cleansing of the oral cavity and its contents - otherwise known as the mouth, gums and teeth. FREDERICK H. HOEFFER, D.D.S...
This evening at 7 o'clock Mr. H. W. S. Dana '03 of Cambridge, will speak at the Liberal Club on Drama and Revolution. Mr. Dana who has been a professor of English at the University, and who has lectured on literature at Columbia and elsewhere, is a specialist in the field of drama...
...this family doctor had to perform, on the spot and without the elaborate accessories a specialist would have at his command, a monstrously delicate operation. His humble confrères everywhere must in emergencies do deeds comparably as difficult. They go their long ways night and day unapplauded otherwise than by the devotion of their patients...
...scientist and teacher it is almost sure to lead to such narrowness as that which has done more than anything else to kill interest in the clas- sics. And of even wider significance than this, intensive specialization destroys perspective and an ability to correlate the knowledge gained in the specialist's field with the other facts and phases of life. This danger applies directly to students and men of affairs. In colleges the tendency to specialization and departmentalizing of subjects is killing the active interest of students in them...
...will ultimately lead to it. The plan of four-year curricula in the American Colleges and high schools is a distinct advantage over the present nine-year course of instruction in the German Gymnasiums. The American Instructor is able to associate with his students, and thereby becomes a psychological specialist in reference to them. The German student is ten years old when he enters the Gymnasium, and is at least 19 before he completes the course. These nine years of school work are divided into three periods of three years each in order that instruction may be given in accord...