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

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Periodontia HOUGHTON HOLLIDAY HAROLD J. LEONARD WILLIAM B. DUNNING ISADOR HIRSCHFELD A.B., D.D.S. D.D.S., A.B. D.D.S. D.D.S. Professor of Dentistry Professor of Dentistry Professor of Dentistry Assoc. Prof, of Dentistry Pedodontia LEWIS R. STOWE D.D.S. Assoc. Prof, of Dentistry EWING C. McBEATH D.D.S., B.S., B.M., M.D: Professor of Dentistry SOLOMON N. ROSENSTEIN B.S., D.D.S. Assist. Prof, of Dentistry

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Orthodontics LEUMAN M. WAUGH D.D.S. Professor of Dentistry HENRY U. BARBER. Jr. EDWARD G. MURPHY ARTHUR C. TOTTEN D.D.b. D.D.S. D.D.S. Assist. Prof, of Dentistry Assist. Prof, of Dentistry Assist. Prof, of Dentistry D.D.S. D.D.S. Instructor in Dentistry Instructor in Dentistry LEV IS E. JACKSON GEORGE S. CALLAWAY D.D.S. D.D.S. Instructor in Dentistry Assoc. Prof, of Dentistry

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Our Profession WILLIAM B. DUNNING, D.D.S.. Professor of Dentistry Next to choosing a wife, the choice of a career, in times of peace, is usually the most important decision which confronts a young man. That is, if he is to have any choice. Some of us do what we must do, in this world, and every now and then Fate guides our steps in ways better than our know- ing; nevertheless, assuming all else to be equal, a choice is desirable. Be- ing a problem of the first moment, it holds an appealing interest for us all. Why do men choose so variously? Because of infinite variations in birth, temperament, upbringing, tradition and environment. What is one man ' s meat is another man ' s poison. But certain broad lines may be drawn, in this matter of choice. Perhaps it may be said in a general way that most men are suited to industrial or business life rather than the highly special callings known as professions. In the first, a sound elementary, high school and college edu- cation is desirable, but the requirements are by no means fixed, for many men who have achieved eminence in the commercial world began with scanty formal training. We must honor them for a native capacity to learn from the buffets of life. At fifty, such men are wise in large matters; they are active and useful citizens. Their working years have been spent in ro- bust competition with business rivals, which on the whole is a healthy state for their communities and for themselves. They may cultivate many phil- anthropic interests, but the habit of a lifetime puts the building of a personal fortune as the first consideration. The cast of mind which makes the professional man is different in many essentials, except for that common ground of open-mindedness and good sense which should govern all men. In the ancient and formal professions — pre-eminently medicine and the ministry — there is need not only for high intellectual and scholarly equipment but also for moral and spiritual qualities which must underlie character as do primitive waterways beneath a busy city. By this is meant only a shift in emphasis. No reflection is intended upon the idealism of the business man, but it is the life ' s work of the doctor to be concerned directly and intimately with the relief of suffering and the health and personal welfare of other human beings. Hence the outgiving, impersonal attitude is basic with the medical man; with him the earning of a living, while not forgotten, is of secondary concern, and is often, in the day ' s work, set aside. In the dental division of the healing art, the grand essentials are the same. In New York State and in an increasing number of other States, the school, pre-dental and professional college years are the same as for the medical curriculum. While the two institutions are steadily growing nearer in a common purpose, the actual merging of dental with medical schools has not been found to be practicable because of the large amounts of time Nineteen