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

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Class of 1950

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Classes

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Class History This is a history of a class and as such it will contain the lighthearted little flashes of experience that people like to remember in thumbing through a yearbook twenty years later. As for the more sober side of the ledger — the ever present personal crises that day after day appeared for each of us — the fears and the intense disappointments — and finally the deeply gratifying satisfactions that compensate, will have to remain hidden between the lines, because no written word is necessary for us to re- member them. i Reducio Ad Absurdum As it must eventually, graduation comes this year to us, too. What is it? Tansky (1) defines graduation as, That climacteric condition, or psychogenic origin, exclusively male incidence, which results over a lour year period from an insidious dissolution of finances, a complete degrada- tion of stability and good humor that is characterized by hypertrophy of the gelatinous fibres of Moral, a thickened stratum corneum, and varied schizoid tendencies. Predisposing factors are; entire necrosis of good sense, neoplastic ambition and the cerebrum being ectopically located in the muscularis layer of the pelvic colon. Cicatrices result- ing are: self-pity, misanthropic personalities, endocrine dysfunction and jaundiced eye. The lesion abates spontaneously, without remission, at which time the patient is apt Comprehensive ' s Today! to remark, ' It wasn ' t so bad! ' (Note afore- mentioned schizoid tendencies.) At this time electro-encephalograms are indicated. If it wasn t so bad it was simply because we never stopped breathing. The low points at best chaotic -the high spots are what we will remember. Freshman Year: Anatomy: The practicals; the anomalies; Dr. Rogers safaris to the tenth floor lab; the lymphatic demonstration; Barlow s galloping in on an injured leg; the odor. Histology: Dr. Copenhaver s quiet consideration; the punctures; the cigarette holders. Embryology: Dr. Detwiler s salamanders waving at the cinema audience. Biochemistry: Jussim s yawning the unknowns; the paraffin. Oral Anatomy: The futility; the moaning; the verse; the geometric blocks; the misery. Neuroanatomy: Also the futility; the decussations; the lights going on all of a sudden; the echo. Physiology: The futility plus the decerebration and decortication; Allen ' s search for something in the sprinkler system; Enid ' s help and