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

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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?

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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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CLASS OFFICERS SENIOR CLASS President JOSEPH LEAVITT Vice-President RICHARD CARSON Secy.-Treas . ' . THOMAS SWEENY STUDENT COUNCIL JOHN KANYA ALBERT BUCKELEW PAUL SEXAUER ARTHUR KAFKA you know any good prayers? I ' m casting my partial . . . Dr. Young, my plate just bit the sink and broke a tooth . . . which can jump the furthest? a rest, a facing, or a flea — our money was on the rest — Dental anatomy days came back to haunt us . . . how many cusps has a lower first molar? . . . finishing lines . . . Death, where is thy sting? . . . C B, or B C — those were our grades . . . Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle . . . the Cardinals were no longer a baseball team — merely principles of soldering. Shadows and substance . . . go back and do it over means reray . . . two years of pent-up hot air was released against our fellow students. — We treated the bunnies gently (mustard) . . . So you went to Fordham — your Latin is atrocious . . . if you had a ton of acetyl salicylic acid, how many 5mg. tablets could you make? . . . and a rat was too quick for Kafka, who subsequently found out about hospital administration — Psychiatry . . . Oh, Nuts! — The Bureau of Standards was ' way off, according to our results . . . Grauer slept in class once too often . . . our friends, the advertisers . . . the best filling material . . . Wait a minute, the ' phone ' s ringing . . . The Maoris became our bosom com- panions . . . names, dates, faces, — Kafka compiled an index to the J. A. D. A. The social crystal is rather hazy, for we were too busy to be very sociable. There was a testimonial dinner to that grand old man, Dr. Gillett . . . When I went to dental school the only entrance requirement was to be able to ' dig down in your jeans ' and pro- duce $200. JUNIOR— We became Mohammedans — a 1ooth for a tooth, a dam for a dam . . . why not use atropine? . . . clamps — separators — Wow! ... a patient at last! . . . two days to get ihrough the enamel and two seconds to reach the pulp (the apex, must be some- where close by) . . . But Doctor, I want ' silver, ' not amalgam . . . If I could have made a small incision in the neck, it would have been simple to fill that one . . . that melodious sound when a kit was dropped — 2 gross of burs scattered over 20 square feet of floor . . . how insulted we felt when they took patients with nice class III foils away from us Pai don me, Joe, while I ram this red-hot Dentacoll down your throat . . . What a big mouth you have, Grandma . . . Carson ' s ridgeless patient — Dr. Young hung the plate from the epiglottis . . . Sure you ' ll have the teeth by Christmas — (but the year was unspecified) ... I don ' t know how they ' ll work; I ' ve never worn full dentures . . . Who managed to turn in his original C B casts??? ... we melted our previous year ' s inlays to finish our crowns . . . If I could get my ' bands ' around Dr. Richmond ' s neck ... a check is not necessarily a completed step in your work; it may mean just starting over again. Eskimos . . . the sperm and the egg again . . . third degree burns . . . the solder kept getting in the half-round tubes . . . the appliance moved the teeth off the models . . . tabiespoonfuls of ' whipped cream ' for the little kiddies ' ... Acute chronic open closed partial total pulpitis is my diagnosis . . . and it ' s a cyst because it ' s on page 5 in the large gray book ... we held the power of life and death — over teeth . Oh, glorified prophylaxis! . . . pyorrhea means periodontoclasia . . . Gottlieb rides again . . . scaling, scaling, over those endless roots. — Porcelain (straight) jackets . . . Can I go in with you? — Gillett partials — the wire goes round and round, and it comes out here — maybe!! . . . the new motors in H lab sounded like Yankee Clippers. We began to correlate and apply what we had reputedly learned in our first two years . . . i took 1 4 pictures and the occipital bone showed up in every one . . . Lights!!! — No, the other way ' round — the beaks grasp the tooth . . . Let me try it for a second (i. e. Let me do it ) . . . It ' s only a little prick. — We met our old friends, Anatomy, Bacteriology, and Pharmacology again and our teach- ers flattered us by assuming that we had remembered something of their subjects . . . We played with crayons in Oral Path and stamped our own drawings, passed . . . We joined the Seniors in exploring the possibilities of improper housing vs. mental dullness vs. sleepy students . . . the annual inefficiency due to sickness in Milwaukee is appalling . . . How many dull round burs were resharpened in I9I3? . . . billions for defense, but not one cent for dentistry . . . We became conscious of Ethics, then ethical. — Having moved down from H. floor we found that we had actually moved up in the world and Dr. Gillett introduced us to spotlessly clean equipment and jackets — gone were our cherished, plaster-spattered lab coats . . . your pans should be clean enough to cook soup. We got our first taste of requirements 28