Temple University School of Dentistry - Odontolog Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE TEMPLE COLLEGE ALLIANCE TitE federation of the Philadelphia Dental College with the Temple College will make no serious change in the general regulations or system of instruction, and will not change the name of the College. The ideas of the new administration are to bring the Dental College into the university grade of our college classification, and put it into close alliance with the Medical School; enlarging the opportunities for the Dental students in medical or surgical studies, and giving them a diploma from an institution recognized by the State as of a college and university grade. The new Board of Trustees of the Dental College have no other purpose than to aid in a great benevolent enterprise for the good of mankind. They intend to open to a large class of men of high character, good education and clear minds the opportunity to become dentists of the first rank. They intend to make the Dental College a contributor to advanced science by encouraging skill and invention, and by putting into use the latest and best appliances. They intend to make the College an important practical aid to its' alumni, and to the profession generally, in keeping our alumni especially informed in all the new methods or appliances introduced into professional use anywhere. We propose to ask friends to endow special chairs for original research, and for donations for the aid of deserving students. All money received by the College for tuitions, and all grants to it by gift or will, shall be used exclusively to advance and maintain the work of the Dental College. We will not be satisfied with second-rate work, nor with a second-rate place. RUSSELL H. CONWELL. 25

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the way was opened for conferences and negotiations which eventually resulted in a federation of the two institutions. Temple College has acquired by purchase the entire plant of the Philadelphia Dental College and the Garretson Hospital. This includes ground, buildings, equipments and outstanding obligations. The Trustees of Temple College become the Trustees of our institution and regulate all of its affairs. The teaching faculty will receive fixed salaries and be relieved of all financial problems. The Dental College will continue in its present quarters and its methods of instruction will remain practically the same. The Medical School of Temple College will remove to the Dental College building and utilize its class-rooms and laboratories in the evening when the dental students have no need of them. As will be seen by Dr. Con Well's communication on another page, the name of the Philadelphia Dental College as well as its identity will be preserved. What does the new order of things mean to both parties interested? To Temple College it means the extension of its educational field to include an important and growing branch of humanitarian science and art. It means the acquirement of a valuable property well adapted to the requirements of its medical school, whose quarters have heretofore been cramped and inadequate. It means the acquisition of a second hospital (Samaritan being its first), with increased clinical facilities for its medcal students. To the Philadelphia Dental College the change means relief for the Faculty from cares and burdens of a financial or business character, so that all of their energies may be devoted to educational work exclusively. More important, however, than this, it means affiliation with an institution having an enrolment of three thousand students, offering fifty separate courses of instruction, a teaching faculty numbering one hundred and sixty, and a record for thorough and progressive educational work scarcely equalled, and certainly not excelled, by any other Eastern institution. We believe that the new order will work to the advantage of both institutions by enabling each one to aid the other. It seems like one of those occasional combinations in other fields of human activity in which neither is the loser but both are gainers. It is not too much to hope and believe that the old and honored Philadelphia Dental College, under the new arrangement, will make for better things in education and practice than it has even done in the past, and to bespeak for it in its new relations the cordial support of its three thousand alumni. S. H. G. 24

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TRUSTEES JOHN O. BOWMAN RUSSELL H. CONWELL SAMUEL S. DARMON ERASMUS FREEMAN CYRUS DETRE HERMANN G. HUTT FRANK WESTON HOYT JOHN LITTLE EDWIN F. MERRITT D. EDWARD MOORE GRANT C. OSBORNE JOHN A. PRESPER