Chicago College of Dental Surgery - Dentos Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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05 THE DENT M I U, ggi V .'l V ,tf. 1 i lfWft 'ATV , nl' , ff ' f , I W, gy ff ' -K -Z N ? '11 51:9 I I I L . i ff Mi g. s.,,. 'av ,A HAS it ever occurred to anyone who has seen various yearbooks as to just why publications of such a type always bear the same title year after year? Perhaps it can be answered by the fact that when such titles are selected they are done so with the idea in mind of having the name bear some sort of a relationship upon the kind of student life and happenings it is to portray or upon the type of a school editing such a publica- tion. At least, so it was with the yearbook pub- lished by the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, Dental Department of Loyola Uni- versity. Back in 1912, when its yearbook was Hrst published by the junior class, a title had to be selected for the book. Here was a problem indeed! Something was wanted that would in itself bring to light the fact that this book was one of a dental school. It had to be characteristic of the type of our individual institution. Indi- vidual because of the fact that it has tried, and judging from our alumni has succeeded, to promote its students in becoming real men along with the teaching of dentistry. We are not like a large university in that we . .,.Lf'gifii?:7'- 'f -il 5 ev. 'H-1-,e Y -'1 Q--a:--. have a number of various schools but we do have dentistry with its various divisions mak- ing it comparable to a large university. Consequently a word had to be selected that would truly have a meaning pertaining to dentistry and still be a dignified one. So the word Dentos', was selected to become the title of the ever-successful yearbook of this institution. The word itself comes from both Greek and Latin and is divided into two parts- Dent and Os. The Dent comes from the Latin dans or dcnfis meaning tooth. The Os part of the word comes from Greek and means parficzzlnrly pl'l'fflilZiIIg to. Naturally by combining these two derivations the word Demos was coined, meaning parficzllarly P6'l'fflil2il7g fo ffye feefb. A misunderstanding might be made with subsequent criticizing by the fact that Os also may come from the Latin meaning bone. In this case the Greek derivation should be used. The selection that was made at the time was a commendable one as is evidenced by the number of years that it has been re- tained. Long live ifs success.

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S . , ' - D ' - 4 A ai f . E Q 'i K ' Q '- l ,Z Q. ' -5 f' Q-Ji -Egg L ' .4 . 1 V' T A x In lf , ,I I 4 ' Y I 11 ig -:kv .-A- V z? 4sv'- -:Q A 1 .1 : f , 'X 1 - ., 5 it Q' ,t cv . 1 Q iff! -4 ' - H J'T AU Q N 1' H E D E N T o s FIFTY-ONE years in existence-fifty-one years of service and sacrifice to humanity -fifty-one years of continuous progress in the development of individuals for the pur- pose of carrying on the principles laid down by Esculapius. Thus the Chicago College of Dental Sur- gery, Dental Department of Loyola Univer- sity, entered into its fifty-first year of ex- istence. Let us think in the terms of a cen- tury. Last year marked the completion of the first fifty years of a century. They were years of progressive development in teaching men to aid their fellow men. Possibly the idea might be perpetrated that with the end of these fifty years we had reached the pin- nacle of our success, that is, no further ad- vancement could be made in the way of our instruction. To us as men that have seen the ever up- ward trend notice the increase in the re- quirements and the broadening of the scope of dentistry. This is or should be sufficient evidence to portray to us the fact that the pinnacle has as yet not been reached and probably never will be even thought it shall always be our much sought after goal. Now that we have broached out upon the second fifty years of this figurative century, it is up to the members of the dental pro- fession to see that the some effort be put forth in maintaining the speed of our prede- cessors in giving humanity that which is rightfully theirs. With the teachings of progress inculcated in the men of the profession, it may be as- sumed that the remaining years of the cen- tury will terminate with as close to the realization of our ideals as is possible.

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ELBERT CROSBY PENDLETON, M.D.S., D.D.S