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

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President of the University Nicholas iMurray BuIIet LL.D. (Cantab. I, D.Litt. (Oxoni, Hon. D. (Paris)

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The time of the appearance of the volume contain- ing this message will approach the twenty-second anniversary of my own graduation. This in itself is hardly unique or worthy of second thought. There is, however, a connection. I remember that as the time neared for me to leave the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, as an undergraduate, I expressed regret and voiced a small quiet hope without the most remote thought of its fulfill- ment. This silently communed wish was: If it were possible. I should like to spend all my life on or near a university campus, partaking in whatever manner I could afford of the liberties and cultural richness it had taught me to associate with it. The wish was and remained sincere, no matter how it may have been fostered by an approaching nostalgia, common to all students once their undergraduate worries have been dispelled. In retrospect, it seems strange indeed that this wish which was then subordinate to more pressing needs should have been thus far so signally fulfilled, as it has been in my valued position as a teacher. These years of life have conferred a fullness that is but the reflection of the contact with hundreds, yes, thousands of undergraduate young men, pre- paring as I had, with the same ideals, the same hopes and aspirations and with perhaps some one in the background silently sharing all these and the hardships and sometimes bitter disappointment as well. The horizon, then, was great indeed for the young practitioner of Dentistry but it is even wider and more enriched to-day, a day which marks the Cen- tenary of the organized beginnings of Deniistry. It is most appropriate that the teachers and their schools be accorded this recognition and associated memories. The teaching of Dentistry is at last coming into its own and only good will result. Each of us has a moral right to be a part of the teaching profession if the light so shines in each as to be an unfailing beacon to all who will see. Were we all to take part in this doctrine, new graduates and old, if the bounds of our faith were beyond measure, if its burning intensity were un- quenchable, who could hope to measure the future or foretell its qreatness. Spread the gospel of good dentistry and not one can escape the good he has cre- ated. It isn ' t the problem of whether you serve human- ity through its teeth or do it in some more heroic fashion. It is simply that you serve. This is true even in the low state the world finds itself in to-day. As I have noted, my contact with the profession is not far short of a quarter of the centennial period. The miracles of advance that have passed before me so intimately that I could have reached out and touched them, make me certain of the high destiny of the profession you have chosen and which will be a part of you forever from the day of your graduation forward. Embrace it, cherish it and protect it proudly. By the lives of its past defenders it is worthy. EARLE B. HOYT

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WILLARD C. RAPPLEYE A.M., M.D. Dean HOUGHTON HOLLIDAY A.B.. D.D.S. Associaie Dean