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

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CLASS It ' s over — and yet just begun . . . and memories upon memories crowd in as we recall those four so long — so short years. ... A hustling-busting seething whirl of activity . . . those preliminary interviews . . . the first registration . . . actually dental students. . . . Gross anatomy and the first glimpse of our profession to be . . . herded into the anatomy lab and told in a matter of fact way to uncover our specimens and get to work . . . furtively watching the other fellow before attempt- ing anything ourselves . . . osteology and that fissure about the size of a crack which is distal to the posterior part of the lateral aspect of the anterior superior tubercle . . . the cavernous sinus thrombosis and its relation to hurriedly packing one ' s suitcase is expounded by Dr. Milch . . . do you get it? . . .Hamburg becomes a bespectacled billiard ball . . . the bahr ahrea . . . hunting for that elusive vagus while your partner croons out of Gray ... I can ' t identify it, so let ' s cut it out . . . the ever ready excuse — it ' s an anomaly! . . . the hermaphrodite at Sachs ' table . . . an old olympus ' topmost top . . . practicum after practicum . . . afternoons in histology . . . the eternal question — is it ligamentum nuchae or lens paper slyly substituted by our neighbor? . . . lines of Retzius . . . I ' m no artist, that ' s how it looked to me . . . the difficulty of defining Scott ' s tissue and naming its functions . . . Iggy, with, ironically enough, the biggest monocular microscope in captivity . . . we become surgeons, assistants, anaesthetists and scribes . . . the smell of ether is sweet . . . lookout! the cat is loose . . . kidneys have thresholds and the library is discovered and so are the O. H ' s. . . . unknown to McGannon the boys mark his physi- ology reports unacceptable — and does he fume! . . . Dr. Diamond carves teeth while standing on a chair with the entire class crowded around him . . . Garretson talks a good upper first molar . . . Dr. Stein insists that not even caries could have produced the misshapen pieces of wax we proudly call teeth . . . we remain undaunted . . . Dr. Erdreich ' s knives mysteriously begin and con- tinue to disappear . . . Biochem and the usual sugar is dumped into our sample . . . Ca and P have a ratio ... a walrus moustache stalks around the room . . . comes checking out day and we have more glassware in our locker than when we started . . . catching up on our sleep during Neuro . . . and Dr. Elwyn ' s pointer desending precipi- tously . . . the C.N.S. has tracts, centers, olives, pyramids, islands and what have you ... Dr. Lyons shows us that two reeler . . . Art bases and