Northwestern University Dental School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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CLASS HISTORY ii: t f' ii 7 i-, ' v,,,..,.r..,.,- O K write a history of the class of 1902 is an undertaking CE? which might well stagger any man. X It is an undertaking f' historians, but as the editors of Purple and Gold have 1 which requires the efforts of a large staff of the ablest 3 x UQ' v been unsuccessful in their attempts to secure such a staff, owing to the fact that all historians of note are at pres- ent following the Bowers or the Bo-Xers in search of new material for early fo-rthco-ming editions of their works, they have been compelled to intrust this grea.t and massive work to a star of lesser magnitude, and it is with almost unconquerable fear of unjust criticism, to which historians are subjected, and with a faltering pen that I now record the triumphs and successes, the miseries and woes of this, the most illustrious class that has ever honored the Northwestern University Dental School with its presence. To understand fully the magnitude, power and greatness of our class it is necessary to- take a retrospective view of the history of our ancestors back as far as Adam and Eve, inclusive, to see how Eve in the eating of the forbidden fruit laid the first stone, as it were, in the foundation for a dental profession, for a fruit that would have such disastrous effects in other ways could not help affecting the teeth, and, though the eating was the source of much annoyance to Eve and her boon companion, they no doubt in their later years looked for- ward to the mighty pro-fession which they had made possible. To them we sincerely acknowledge our indebtedness and are proud to be able to point to such noble ancestry. In the generations which followed we find steady advancement in the pro-fessio-n, and, though our accounts are meager, we have enough to show that the tendency was constantly towards the class of 1902. III