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

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COC7 O S 1 1! When a man lends anything around college, even influence, he seldom gets it back. Every dentist has two able assistants, his right hand, and bis left. Whenever a worthy upper-classman advises you to patronize a questionable dental supply house, two to one the best vou get is the worst of it. Right you are, Doc Pieper, some students are like one-legged milking stools — no good unless sat upon. Prohibit inn, says the guy who has been stopped by Dr. C ' arr for wearing his hat in the hall, is a direct offense against personal liberty. An ounce of John ' s assistance is worth a pound of advice. There are 7,523 different kinds of fear, and when Doc Ford says he wants to see you later in pri- vate, you experience every one of them. When some women go down in the plaster room and spend all morning building up a model, they call it a morning well spent. Happy is the dentist who owes nothing and whom nobody owes. Speaking of tough luck, how about suddenly finding you ' ve run out of carbolated vaseline in the midst of putting on the rubber dam according to Dr. Swift ' s formula. ' The ladder ' s top in dentistry isn ' t so easily at- tained, but the view is worth the effort. Those poor unfortunates among the studes who were kept from the State Boards because of their lack of age might readily belong in the category entitled Infant Mortality. 37

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0C70S 1 1 It is far easier to destroy an impression than it is to make one. Some men have a mania for dirty white coats in the infirmary and immaculate ones in the lab. , Many a. man would never be heard were it not for his ' ' Zips ' ' in anatomy. • A good student handles the truth with care. a A clever dentist conceals little from his patients, but at that, what the patient doesn ' t know won ' t hurt him. ■ « Most things we learn by experience usually come through compulsory education. A senior ' s repixtation for wisdom depends less on what he really knows than it does on what he doesn ' t say. Dumb-bell says that we all have become adept at feats of strength. It requires considerable effort to restrain our tongues while receiving a bawling out in front of our patients. « Success never comes to the man who is afraid to face failure. Dr. Ford, you ' re all wrong. No man is a hope- less fool who can keep his ignorance concealed. Don ' t expect to get rid of .your troubles by adver- tising them. 36

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STAGES OF FIRST EXTRACTION— Stimulation Excitation Tremor Fatigue Delirium Brachial Plexus These written quizzes of Dr. Ford ' s sometimes come as suddenly as a cloudburst from a clear sky, and he who is without his umbrella of preparedness is liable to get soaked, to use an aphorism. At one of the aforementioned quizzes, in appre- hension of my neighbor ' s ability to hold his own in answering one of the questions, I languidly cast my eye over his paper to see if he needed any hlep. (If he had, the probabilities are that he would have had to look elsewhere.) Be that as it may, the following mural decoration attracted my attention and with it a short description. The drawing speaks for ltgji, however and here it is with apology for such slight omissions as the Forty-second Street Nucleated Shuttle : 7 t 7k£ -B ' w r Li e - UppenTRvMf nofiDifjfiy ax ' OA BRT. J ECl SS» tr o v £f0.w 3 £tiE ' EL ' L ihe «4 Lowe ? T iotfK Ml CL£US K3 $T (MbmhhttfinJIBrbchihl VJexus »» CoURTL tMPT T f}RK Ofif Ci ofJ e l P OKGH V 38