University of Maryland Baltimore Dental School - Mirror Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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(By Longbellow) DENTAL surgery had made enormous advances since his boyhood, when, he remembered, the following announcement appeared over the entrance to a blacksmith ' s forge which he once visited. ' Tooth- drawing, bleeding, and cupping done here. ' The instrument used was called a pelican, and had a strong, sharp, hooked beak. Mr. J. W. Hulke, F.R.S., at the Dental Hospital Dinner. Under the spreading gum-tree ' s shade The village smithy stands, The smith a busy man is he. For when frail flesh demands. He cups and bleeds and pulls out teeth With his large and sinewy hands. Week in, week out, from morn to night You may see his clients there. Bound hand and foot to the anvil — For he owns not any chair — Squealing, squirming, as he swings The pelican in air. Its beak is sharp and hooked and strong To stir the stumps of man; You shall not see so weird a thing From Crewe to Matapan; They look the whole world in the mouth. He and his pelican. The children coming home from school Look in at the smithy door; They love to see the pelican And hear the patients roar. And catch the double teeth that fall Like hailstones on the floor. The poem h taken from E. V. Llu ' iis ' splemlij jn obJo- vitphiciil work Reading, Writing an J Renienihering (19 y2). ■tl2

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Senior Class Officers President - Joseph P. San Clemente V cc-Prcsidcnf . Eugene M. Nelson Sccir ary Henry S. Kania Treasurer Murray H. Casper Scrgcant-af-Arms Leonard Nardozza Historian . Frederick Weinstein Student Representative , Frank V. Tirocchi j i Seni(}fis FINIS OPUS CORONAT. The vigil of graduation is most expecting. The mind of the senior, hoping and reminiscing, dwells ponderously over the numerous events which have led him to his present state of meditation. It ' s an overflowing cornucopia of memories, palpitating moments of anxiety, depressing feelings of doom and defeat, unstinted marks of struggle and labor, weary steps on a hard-trodden path, new plans and reconversions, beatific visions of victory and success, the heart-choking sensations and thrills of a day not too far away, the momentous hand- over of the sheepskin, the thunderous oration, the praise . . . The tremulous fingers of his carving days, the din of tin cans, the trying demonstrations of rubber dam, the vast collections of un-remu- nerative prophys, the dry fields for inlay cementation, the spectre of Class III foil pi-eparations, the exhausted supply of cotton rolls, the use of the Automaton, the unending accumulation of points which never totals a thousand ... all these things unfold themselves to him as he delves into the short span of his student days. -fl4