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

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in the United States. In this country alone there are thirtytfour high schools and twenty-three colleges and universities taught by the Order. American ffesuits operate the foreign mission jields of Pata, India,q' the Philippines, British Honduras, jamaica, fllaska, Iraq, China, Ceylon and among the Indians on our own Western Reservations. More than one hundred W' the members W' this order have been raised to the heroic dignity Q' saints and many hundred more are still awaiting the pronouncements cy' the Congregation cd Rites before they too join that saintly company. Many of these were men of heroic virtue in the ordinary execution of their routine life. Many more are nzen who have made the final sacri- jice of martyrdom. At one time the Society of 7esus operated in many parts ry' the world 669 colleges, 176 seminaries, 273 missions and 32.5 residences. In 1870 the yesuits founded St. Ignatius College on the West Side of Chicago. Later that institution became Loyola University cy' which the Chicago College of Dental Surgery is one of eight schools. 0n the shores of Lake Michigan, whose waters had once borne the canoes cy' the early ffesuit explorers, the present Campus of Loyola University stands. Its cluster Q' buildings, dominated by the slender loveliness Q' the Chapel of Maria Della Strada-Our Lady of the Wayside-gives living testimony q' the work 4 ffogues, Brebeuf, Damen and Marquette. Its name is that M Ignatius cy' Loyola, first leader cy' the Society who sent these men to all corners cy' the earth. When the shadows deepen along the western curve W' the lake waters, when the noise of the city comes but faintbf to the ear, the figure of a black- robed father may be seen pacing the peacdul campus as he tells his beads. Through four hundred years the tasks and dreams and ideals of Ignatius Q' Loyola have come down to him. He is a follower in the steps U the Spanish knight who jirst sent the Company cy' Yesus to do unceasing battle in the service of the Eternal Leader. 1 ew N' --nfgbmw M QL' OX' v ca

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of Ignatius took their flag. To India, Ceylon, Yapan, China and lllalacca went the heroic band of ffesuits under Francis Xavier, bringing uncounted thousands to the banner Q' the Leader. Into the wilderness of the New World went the soldiers of Ignatius to build a vast spiritual empire. Into the desolate reaches rj northern Canada, into the fertile plains and valleys wi the llflississippi marched the Black Robes. Through the almost unendurable agony of harsh winters, through the dis- integrating heat M the summers, through the perils Q' wilderness and through the savagety cy' many Indian tribes these priest heroes fought their way to write a glorious chapter in flmerican history. They explored the new lands, painstakingly made maps cy' the routes which their hardships had opened for them and left the invaluable source book of carb 1-Imerican history that we know as the Jesuit Relations. The history of our own Midwest could not be written except in terms of the achievements of these early Yesuits. Mar'quette-who made his perilous journey down the hVisconsin and Mi.r.rissippi rivers, through the Illinois, touching very close to what is now metropolitan Chicago. Brebeuf-who closed his days of exploration in the New World under the tomahawks ty' the red men. ffogues-whose sainted hands bore the cruel marks Q' Indian torture even btyfore the tomahawks brought him to his death in the country to which he had dedicated his lye in the service of his Leader. Alnd there are many others in whose debt the New lforld will . always remain. In the far lands the same story was being written. 4 The gentle Xavier died alone in Sancian after bringing the faith to more than one million souls s and to fifty-two kingdoms. In Mexico schools and colleges were established long before the English colonists had even begun to settle along the .fitlantic border. In South America the 7esuits established what was probably the finest type of communal We in modern centuries-the Reductions rj Paraguay. Wherever the Black Robe marched, there arose hospitals and charitable centers, schools and colleges, until his contribution to this development fy' civilization becomes inestimable. Even in this modern day, the heroic traditions cy' the members of the Company M -'Tesus remain unchanged. There are t-wentyyive thousand soldiers of Ignatius scattered over the world, with more than Jive thousand 'f,5fxf ! frfaiieisiieifu. I ft 0 ,J o DEQ 0 0 . G

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THE FIRST CENTENNIAL OF ORGANIZED DENTAL EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AND SOCIETIES 1840-1940 The story of dentistry in this country is the . story of a single century. It is a story of humble beginnings. It is the story ofthe efforts mf many I and of the genius wi the few. It is the story of a triumph over hostility and indiference. It is the story mf a crude, primitive craft that was . brought to the dignity of a profession that now serves faithfulbv the health security of this country. This story begins in Baltimore in 1840 with the names of Horace H. Hayden and Chapin A. Harris. In that year dentistry was given its first formal educational discipline with the establishment Q' the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery on February 1. In that year also, the jrst attempt at a systematic professional literature was made with the appearance of the frst number M The American Journal of Dental Science. Dental organ- ization also had its beginnings in that year for, on August 18, 1840, the Almerican Society ey' Dental Surgeons was founded. Harris, with Dr. Hayden's advice and assistance, but otherwise almost entirely unaided, secured the signatures ay' representative citizens to a petition in the legislature of Maryland for the incorporation of a College M Dental Surgery at Baltimore. lifter numerous dificulties and considerable op- position by jealous medical rivals, which he jinally overcame, the charter was granted. Thus was founded the first unit of an educational system which was to contribute so monumentally to the progress cy' American dentistry. Horace H. Hayden was born on October 13, 1769, at W indsor, Connecticut. At an earbf age he began to follow the sea but recurring attacks of tropical fever compelled him to return home to take up work as an architect. In the winter cy' 1792 he sought the services Qf Mr. fohn Greenwood, who had served George Washington as a dentist. Intrigued with Greenwood's skill and ingenuity he undertook the study cy dentistry, procuring from Greenwood the few available books on the subject, among them fohn Hunter's famous work. He left New York for Baltimore and set himseh' up in practice. He began to teach a class in dentistry and, in 1825, he accepted an invitation 5, P 0 D x O fir f.sfKf:-if G I J, Ke.':je,L-+tL:iF.z'1fgj.,, fab