New York University College of Dentistry - Dental Violet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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1 up New e is wire. , if 125 feet on 23rd Street Extensive alterations were made New laboratories were , Z 7- built The various clinics such as the Operative Oral Surgery X-Ray Ortho- gii dontia and Exodontia were moved into the new building and equipped with mod- : Z .E ern appliances This change has added untold teaching facilities : - Since 1865 there have been twenty-seven incumbent professors--nine of them ' E served their terms of service prior to 1869 1 : E : Of the incumbent professors since 1865 the length of service of six is remark- E E E able Professor Faneuil D Weisse M D 1865-1915 deceasedj Professor E 5 E - Frank Abbott M D 1868-97 Cdeceasedj-he had been a clinical lecturer from : E : 1866 Professor Alexander W Stein 1868-96 resigned because of failing health ' E S -he had been Demonstrator of Anatomy from 1866 Professor F LeRoy Sat- : terlee M D Ph D 1869 to July 1916 Professor J Bond Littig D D S 1877- Q n. E - 1908 deceased he had been connected with the college from 1869' Professor a ', F.: E Alfred R Starr 1884 to 1924. E ' 5 - After 1869 prior to the election of Professor J Bond Iittig D D S to the y 2 E chair of Mechanical Dentistry in 1877 C A Woodward DDS occupied the 5 : T X Q chair from 1869-73 and C E Marvin D D S filled the chair from 1873-77 . Q: 2 J Bethune Stein M D succeeded his father in 1896 to date Alfred R Starr . : 5 M D DD S, who had been Professor Abbotts assistant for eleven years, suc- 1 , - E A E ceeded him in 1897 and served up to October, 1924. Ellison Hillyer, D.D.S., Sc.D., gfm E who had been Professor Littig's assistant for thirteen years, succeeded him in 1907. U ARE 5 5 The Deans of the Faculty have been: Professor Norman W. Kingsley, 5 X 5 5 D.D.S., 1865-693 Professor Frank Abbott, M.D., 1869-18973 Professor Faneuil in i 5 .5 E 5 51.5 D. Weisse, M.D., 1897-19153 Professor Alfred R. Starr, M.D., D.D.S., 1915 to gli October, 1924. Professor Charles Vetter, D.D.S., Acting Dean from November, to date. From 1866 to 1891 a two year course to the degree was required, from 1891 until 1917 a three year course was in existence, and since 1917 a four year course ii .A s Q has been in effect. 5 2 The length of the college session from 1865-66 to 1895-96 was five monthsg 3 ll if-E 1924, to October, 1925. Professor Holmes C. Jackson, Ph.D., from October, 1925, 54 1 from 1896 to 1905 it was seven and a half monthsg from 1905 to 1925 it has been 5 ?3E: eight months. In 1925 an eight and a half months' course began. 5 5 Up to the session of 1903-04, inclusive, the didactic instruction by lectures g g E L, E . . . 5 E fig was given to the entire student body, first, second and third-year classmen attend- gig Tung it. I ' lum-. :fn ,1:.I111ill, 'n-il n iflilll mllllul' 1mlrnI iqllullli-ivm: annual- 'mmhx all .n. i:um..n1i ii ,i1ln i.llilmuin U91ll'llllllllllllIllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ll. WE ,rl llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll hiumiivll.. di11n..llhi'9i. Sei' Fel '- ..:.i M. Q 4 . . ' g Q Q E E E ' Z E : - 5 s Z ' . C . 2 E :I E 5 - Q C D . 1 4 E E E A E Q 9 9 9 , - . ., i ry E N E C D! 9 M E Ex? ' I . . , ,l l E A A A 5 2 S . 1 U 1 5 1 1 I, E E f 5 , . . , . . ., , ff l : N s - , . -, - . , : 9 X E 5 . ., . . . 1 i1 X E E g ing the same lectures for the three collegiate years. In 1904-05 a graded course of E E 7 : , lectures for first-year classmen was established, attendance upon which was : H optional to second-year and third-year classmen. The second-year and third-year classmen continued attending the same lectures during their second and third year. HIE . . . . fs -s 9:2 The latter feature was imperative in order that students might be better prepared ggi 5'5 :- I 1 for the taking of the license examinations of the State Board of Dental Exam- iners these examinations commenced in 18955 than they could be were the curricu- - lum of the second and third-year sessions divided into two graded courses . 5 1 The curriculum has been an evolutionary one--the methods of fulfilling it 1 r having been governed by the space available in the college premises But the llllllllll ug-ax ' I llll H, I h 'B-3.551 ,lllllll lp QE C ' E.: xi , 5 1 'f . 3 . -' r sl if . as 1251

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4,533 ' llll I 1 lllll 22 an I llln nnunnnnnnuunnulpnfunnnllnnu i :nannnnu llll ll N55 l lm .lnl n lnnnnnnunlnnlnn mil il 1 il' ' ' '5 fx' Q 3 A , V 1 lll ll Ill lllllllllllll WI ll 2 1 :T if' 5 NEW BUXLDING E 'Ni 5 E , .. E .. 5 A trend of the work maintained through the years is embodied in the opening para- gl: EE graph of the annual announcements, The purpose of the institution is to educate 5,-:E E A 209 EAST 231111 smear E 'E 5 'vi E'-5. men to practice dental surgery as a specialty of medicineg therefore the curriculum includes the fundamental departments of medicine with operative dental surgery f Y 1 3 ' 5 S 5 and oral prosthetics. The lectures on the fundamental departments of medicine are X specially directed to the needs of the dental surgeon. l From 1866 to 1891 the college premises only admitted of educational work , by didactic lectures, clinics and inflrmary practice. In 1891, when the college E moved to its present building the faculty were enabled to progressively fit up lab- E S ' : oratories for practical work. Practical chemistry and normal histology were the . . . 9 E first opened. In 1894 additional laboratories were opened for the conduct of graded E 5-' E E Practical Classes -for first-year, second-year and third-year classmen-to afford 5 E Q'-'Q opportunities for personal work and direct demonstrations of every feature of the E - i s vii 2 1 technique of operative dental surgery and oral prosthetics. The work of the - Practical Classes and the plant of the laboratories have been perfected and 'X tai 'AKC its 51 5 Q E E 3 5 E E E E E : e S 1 1 E 5 ENE 345 1 E 12 E N 3 E S 5 added to from year to year. 1: i i From 1866 to 1894 students who applied for their first registration, who did ' , not hold a diploma 'from a public school or credentials from a higher grade insti- tution, were required to submit to an examination, conducted by the Dean, as to , Q! their proficiency in public school subjects - In the spring of 1894 the Board of Trustees and Directors received from , ' the Regents of the University of the State of New York a communication to the . pf, 1 effect that they would not consent to recognize the degree of D D 8 conferred : --v Q3 0911 Eli: 5.5 Q: U 1 e , 111,,,,,1, , ctutr 4 , e , ,,,, i ,,,,, ,, lu 1 , i 1 ,, ,et 1261 f