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

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FRESHMAN— Dental School! When will people begin to call us Doctor — or when do we start extracting teeth — or even filling them? But first we had to chop our way through the orbicularis oris. We looked like air raid wardens in our anatomy lab coats and the air raids were right across the court . . . that near interception by Dr. Rogers of a liver which flew 40 yards on a Fordham pass . . . May Day in December and intestines were hung from the ceiling with care . . . those late Saturday morning lectures by Dr. Milch . . . the anticipation that preceded Dr. Firestone ' s lecture on the perineum. In Histology if you didn ' t know the answer it was ligamentum nuchae . . . O ' Connell began his four- year monologue pep-talks to himself . . . Cohen began to worry . . . Courtade spent his time in the hall celling the O.H. ' s . . . Kupperman dragged out Loewenhoek ' s original microscope ... we got 100 ' s on the quizzes we gave each other and flunked the real ones. — Wax blocks again — we thought we ' d demonstrated our abilities on the dexterity tests, but the awakening was rude . . . frayed tempers . . . geometric forms . . . curves . . . 120° angles . . : This tooth is no good anyhow; guess I ' ll show it to Dr. Erdreich . . . Leavitt handed in Dr. Diamond ' s demonstration tooth and it was rejected . . . those sighs of relief when none of the roots fractured with the last cut ... at demonstrations, Grauer began his four years of peeping through Geraghty ' s legs . . . we carved watch charms and nudes and tons of chips . . . the mesio-buccal cusp of the upper first molar. Clune acquired the name of Sweet Pea in Physi- ology ... I wanna be surgeon ... Dr. Ehrenhaus delivered sextuplets . . . phooey on Dr. Dafoe . . . cats, frogs, turtles — when will they give us patients? . . . was that shellac sticky! . . . the mysteries of kimography. We spat for Dr. Karshan . . . Ehrenhaus was caries free . . . Reznick became a temporary 26

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diabetic ... Dr. Shaman ' s American ballet at the blackboard ... the question was how could twelve 150 lb. men get into one little centrifuge ... a 5cc. pipette threw water further than a spray bottle. Art reared its ugly head ... the idea was to draw an invisible line ... the wind blew, the dental lymph flew, and the walrus used his teeth for locomotion — . Pyramidal tract vs. the sensory root of the 5th nerve ... we learned to sleep without snoring . . . Har-umphl! Death Valley in a dust storm and an edentulous patient with an iron jaw and a wooden head (oil before using) . . . I ' m forever flowing bubbles . . . ' Go back and do it over . . . retainer plates take off from the polishing wheels like aeroplanes . . . But only a pinpoint of light shows through! . . . Now this yere Christopher Columbus discovered that thar caoutchouc . . . that elongated carnivorous red quadruped, the weasel, became a biped. During the year we wrestled spaghetti with the faculty at Caruso ' s and staged a very swanky dinner dance at the Lincoln. SOPHOMORE— Please pass the plague in the No. 4 test tube ... we found that having spirochetes was no dis- grace . . . the exquisite aroma of hot agar and gas bacilli tubes . . . Meyers was allergic to animals . . . a crash of glass, a mad scramble, a long distance throw with a bucket of carbolic, and back to work . Don ' t! That ' s my sore arm! . . . brushing vs. rinsing — an d the count went up anyway ... we were typed. — Path writeups ... the new lexicon . . . the patient went rapidly down hill and died with puss in his cappewlerys ... our one and, thankfully, our only autopsy (phew) ... we fight for bleachers next to the lantern . . . Inflammation!!!!! . . . put on your coat, Nordstrom, you ' re not in a pool room . . . Sweetbreads, liver and onions, kidney pie, tumors a la mode . . . Clune won the pool on the number of exemptions from the final. Charter ' s method of brushing (hold the brush steady and wiggle your head) . . . massage . . . wrist motion — a patient with a rubber tongue and an aluminum head . . . then, someone called us Doctor — at last! blood letting was an art that didn ' t die out in the Middle Ages . . . was that an inlay I removed, or only some calculus? . . . Meyers chained his patient to the head rest and a necktie party nearly ensued . . . Carson took them in two ' s . . . the diagnosis department will tell you how many cavities you have . . . toothpowder vs. toothpaste. 6-2-5, 3-1-28, 15-80-9-12; shift to the left— signals off — the gold foil fell out ... a straight line angle between 2 point angles was the shortest distance to a I . . . the patient ' s jaw was like a vise . . . pumice was not the fastest setting investment . . . let me cast it for you . . . Our House articulators will have to do until we own castles in Spain . . . the words set ' em up again are heard so often that it sounds like the Astor bar . . . balance was im- portant, but our mental equilibrium suffered . . . Do 2?