Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery - Dental Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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NINETEEN SIXTEEX ls!!

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1916 YEAR BOOK Moritz A. Jagendorf Editor-in-Chief Literary Editor Bzzsi1zessvMa1zage1 Clarence G. Durkee Morris J. Boyer Literary Board Business Board A. Bennett Goldburg Jacob H. Jablow Max Messinger John W. Schelpert Edward H. Elphant Art Editor Edgar W. Schmitt Associate Art Editor Harry A. Paskow Circulation Committee Myron I. Mashkowitz, Chairman Arthur G. Croker Bessie Neveloff 1917 Editor Walter Gober

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Y E A R B O O K A STRANCE BUT TRUE HISTORY OF oun CLASS. IST! all ye who have ears! The whole planet N and all other planets of the Universe! Fu- ,,4'9,,g,gg tuie historians! Compilers of scientific records! Encyclopedeists! Writers of ro- mances of great scientists! List well, for 6?-jgygig' this is to be the history of the class of 1916 of the College of Dental and Oral Surgery! The beginning was in the fall of 1913 in the immaculately clean and white building on 35th Street accompanied by a number of incidents which may be termed sublime by very reason of their simplicity. Officers were selectedg some members tried for the athletic teamsg a dance was giveng a few aspiring would-be-literary geniuses gave their assistance to the then existing magazizteg etc., etc., etc. Then came four months of respite and after that the herculean task of doing most of these things all over again. Once more a breathing spell, then the return for the last trial, the election of oliicers, and a class editor,-the editing of the year book and-upon completion of this,-sallying forth into the world to do the fine things that had been taught in the immaculately clean and white building on East 35th Street! This I deem the finest example of a class history that has ever been written. It contains not a single superfluous inci- dent, there are no exaggerated tritles to distort the factsg no resuscitating of tales that nature mercifully has us forget and which some inflated, self-styled writer would force down our gulletsg no stupid and sickening pseudo-humorisms that are ancient as the moon. Here you find only an enumeration of those most important occurrences that will go down to pos- terity in letters of violet and green. And for this I humbly expect that all will be greatful and thankful as well. For, to tell the truth, I could have done something very different. I might have written reams and reams of paper. Never was man tit to write just such histories in general and this one in particular! Whichever way I look upon myself,- physically or mentally, I find every cell of my body formed to suit this particular kind of work. Perhaps it would be well to be more definite. You well know, kind reader, that histories can only be written by such as can look calm and impartial at the facts to be recorded. This is only possible Where the historian is 15 A STRANGE BUT TRUE HISTORY OF OUR CLASS