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

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D I realize that all of you will not be professional successes. A small number of you may. for a number of years be able to succeed financially without rendering proper service to the public, but you will find that those who have practiced dentistry purely from the financial standpoint, will be short-lived in the profession. As you look back over the dental profession and see those men who have made places in professional history, you should realize that they have suc- ceeded because of professional ability and as a result of that the majority of them have obtained a compensation in accordance to their professional standing. Therefore, I want to impress upon you the one fact that your duty to the public is to render a service to that public because the very existance of your profession depends upon the public who has created laws, made ■standard requirements and regulations which enable you to have a profes- sion which has the desired dignity. As a class you are entering the practice of dentistry at a most oppor- tune time. There never has been a time in the history of the World that dentistry has occupied the prominent place it does to-day, and consequently you are able to grasp the opportunities which did not even exist for last year ' s class. The public is educated to appreciate dental service and because of this, the man who is able to fulfill those demands is the one who is going to succeed, while the others who attempt to fool the public are going to meet with early disaster. The fortunate position which you occupy to-day is one which you should take advantage of. While you may criticize some of the things you were taught in college; and you may feel that in certain subjects the instruction was not what you would like it to be. nevertheless, as a whole you must remember that your course has been worked out as the result of years of study by men who have given much time to the phase, and you are going out better prepared to practice your profession than any other class has before you. That is be- cause the teaching of dentistry has advanced as well as the demands of the public, and you are therefore, better qualified to fulfill those requirements than any before you were at graduation. Of course you must remember that you are only beginning. For the student who thinks his student days are over when he graduates from college, I can only predict failure. Commencement Day is really the commence- ment. and from that time on it depends upon yourself whether you will be a success or a failure. You will have to keep studying all of the time and the student who sells his textbooks is the man who is headed for profes- sional failure. Therefore, as a final word of parting, let me say to you: Be earnest and studious, and realize that you have a certain place to fill in this world and do it in the best manner that is in you. and always remember he serves most who serves best. Martin Dewey, M.D.. D.D.S. mi» I S 2 2 fey Page Seven

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° °5 y-- - =53 CHARLES MILTOX FORD. A.M., M.D. REGISTRAR Professor of Anatomy and Histology m ' luuDV WILLIAM CARR, A.M., M.D., D.D.S. DEAN OF THE FACULTY Professor of Oral Surgery and Anesthesia 1922 B tt iy»» Pa 7 A ' me