Indiana University School of Dentistry - Prognosis Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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I i 1 A EARL VVHITE Editor Assoczcvte Editors 4 E C Thompson' ,ROBERT R GILLIS Assistant Ed ar C Van Der Volgen C A Priest ERNEST WINTER Art Arthur Aubhinbaugh D F Ellison LEROY NIYISR Comte Clyde L Hine A E L Fee L T R L SWINDLER Business Mcmaber L F ICERMAN 'Cwcula-tzon Manager Asszstcmts H S Hickman W R Newcomer Theodore Doublas Cf!-1 Department of Dental Surgery,rUn1vers1ty of Indianapolis The editors have M been surprised andtrather amused at the number of poetical attempts that have . been submitted With only three ladies in the class, we hardly expected to receive much verse, but were astonished by thirty tvvo eH3Aorts at rhyme from the pens of the young men of the school We take this occasion to thank the college for 1tSCXh1D1t1OI1 of school sp1r1t, by virtue of which this book has appeared A THE EDITORS . , , ' g , . . . 0 . U , U . . E - - y ' ' J va n ' .' . . , . . , 0' E Q .gp ' c QU!-Cl lX ' IS VOLUME marks the first effort of the kind thathas been made at the ft! N? , . . . . . U X S i ' . I go? . . . . . sig' gflqf Q Nu 4 --1 A they Wai the- Stat was met pass the that pro-1 Undf to every anapolis tion and ducting

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I ANDERSON . PUBLICLIESRARY one prognosis 1 gmnfanai mural Qtnuzge 111904 annual . THE ooLLEGE W K N the winter of 1878-1879 the first ef- Qw zito- f E,-5 p ana to secure a dental law. They met r with the usual obstacles encountered by if fort was made by the dentists of Indi- all Who- approach the Legislature to se- 'wh-' -D we h a f bill mo-n hem QF JK cure t e p ssage o a , a g t - f the co-ntention that such a dental law as they Wanted would compel Indiana students to go- out of the State to secure a dental education. This objection was met with the statement-that if the Legislato-rs would pass the bill the dentists would establish a college, and on that promise the bill was passed. Under date of May 20, 1879, a co-mmunication was sent to- every dentist in Indiana, inviting them to meet in Indi- anapolis on June 2 3, 1879, to form a dental college associa- tion and to determine the manner of establishing and con- ducting such an institution. This invitation Was signed by a committee composed of Phineas G. C. I-Iunt and J. E. Cravens. This meeting was duly held, and, after discus- sion, a committee was appointed to draft articles oi asso- Ciation. At another meeting held June 26, 1879, the-se articles were adopted and a bo-ard of 'nine trustee-s was elected. And that was the beginning of the College. 7 When the Indiana Dental College was organized, there Were only six o-ther dental colleges in existence and one of these, the -department of dentistry, University of Pennsyl- vania, had just completed its first term of teaching. West of the Allegheny mountains but two colleges are older than this of ours, the dental department of the University of Michigan having been established in 1875 and the Ohio College of Dental Surgery first opening its doors in 1845. During the first year the students of the Indiana Dental College took their lectures and laboratory Work in anat- omy, chemistry, physiology and materia medica with the