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

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Q YY! Q 'ON' 1 3! Nw fm ww I N -9' - 'R , . 9 w University Dental College, which preceded North- western University' Dental School, was organized under a charter from the State of Illinois in 1887. i,VA .r'-L The first session was held in the winter of 1887- he iiiii 1888 with a class' of six students, the dental faculty consisting of VV. VV. Allport QEmeritusj, L. P. Haskell, R. P. Ludwig, John S. Marshall QDeanj, A. E. Baldwin, Charles P. Pruyn, C. R. Baker and Arthur B. Freeman. An agreement was effected between President 'Cummings of Northwestern University, Nathan S. -Davis, Dean of the Chicago. Medical College, and the faculty of the new dental college, by which its students should take lectures in anatomy, physiology,histology, materia medica, patho-logy and surgery with the medical classes, but this agreement involved no further con- nection with the medical college. Also, the connection with North- western University was nominal and prospective, the university assuming no responsibility for the denta.l college. The new college was lo-cated on Twenty-sixth Street, near the medical college. The students were required to take a course of three years, of seven months each, before graduation. This was the first dental college to make this requirement, and this fact operated very much against its success in obtaining students, so that its classes remained very' small, there being only eleven students at the end of the sec-ond year. VVith the beginning of the third yearthe three-year course was made optional, and the students were allowed to elect to take a two years' course. At the end of the fourth year the class numbered nineteen. The college could not continue to meet its expenses on the income derived from this number of students. and at the end of the year the faculty resigned, This was in the spring' of ISQI. ' 220

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l I 0 xx,-Ly Sv! 'iw l 'i l 4 I l ri A . 1 l . O. F. BOHMAN The Class of '01 can well boast of having one of the fastest wheelmen and a top- ,E notcher in the wheeling world. li His career as a racing man began in South Bend, Ind., july 4, 1894, where he entered and rode in the mile novice, winning easily in the remarkably fast time of 2:25. june 19, 1895, he won the two-mile handicap, being scratch man at State L. A. XV. Circuit meet at Galeshurg, Ill. The following are some of the races Mr. Bohman rode in and won 1 ,Time prize, five miles, time, 131051 rode at Lake View, Chicago, August 25, 1895. Time prizeg nve miles, time, 12:06. Time prize, hve miles, time, 11:57, july 27, ISQ5. Time prize, five miles, time, 12:42, Sept. 2, 1895. Championship prize, Lake View Cycling Clubp Sept. 1.1, 181515: live'mile course: time, 11:21. August 8, 1896, in the big hve-mile handicap, he covered the distance and won in Ilifll, 3-5, Most of the preceding races were road races on a seven-cornered course. 1 Sept. 3, 1896, Mr. Bohman went professional. and defeated play liaton, lowering liaton's f record for the half mile, time, jj mile, 1:03. Before this race liatou had never hm-n clvfvated indoors. The race took place in the old Coliseum, Cliicago. At the dedication of Garfield track, Chicago, Mr. liohmau won both the half mile and the , mile open, the mile being a handicap race. ,I July 2, 1897, at the National Circuit meet of the L. .-X. XY.. Racine, XX'is., he won the mile l open, time, 2:15. In this race he was against the fastest crowd of riders in the country. A To Mr. Bohman also belongs the honor of steering the motor pare machine at Havens- wood track, Chicago, ancl establishing the world's record for three milt-sg time. 51113 3 gi-arof machine, 116. In 1893 and 1894 he was prominent among century riders. He now holds a medal pre- sented by the Century Rgad Club of America, with forty-four century bars. He has several , times earned two century bars in a day. I-Ie rode with the Morgan S Wright team one season. i and was prominent in pace teams. 219 l l X- l 1

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In the winter of 1890-QI there were a number of men who had obtained some prominence as teachers in dentistry in Chicago who were not then engaged in teaching. Dr. Thomas L. Gilmer gave a dinner at the Leland Hotel, to which Drs. George H. Cushing. Edgar D. Swain, Edmund Noyes and XV. V. B. Ames were invited, and to whom he opened the subject of the formation of a new dental school. There were at the time two or three dental schools in the city that were not succeeding well, and the question of the reorgan- ization of some one o-f these was discussed, with the result that Dr. Gilmer was authorized to investigate the advisability of the purchase of the American College of Dental Surgery, then under the control of Dr. Clendenen. At a subsequent meeting Dr. Gilmer reported adversely to the purchase of that plant. Chicago University was then in process of organization, and an interview was had with Presi- dent Harper with reference to the organization of a dental school as a department of that university, but at that time they were not ready for such an undertaking. The discussion of various schemes con- tinued from time to time until the resignation of the faculty of the University Dental College- seemed to create an opening in that direc- 'tion. Dr. Henry Wfade Rogers had recently become President of Northwestern University and was actively engaged in bringing the professional schools, which had previously but a nominal connec- tion with the university at Evanston, into a close relationship. He was seen with regard to the reorganization of this college, which he actively favored. After a number of conferences between the parties interested, which included the outgoing members of the old faculty and the officers of Chicago Medical College. an organization was effected under the charter of Northwestern University. and the charter of the University Dental College from the state allowed to lapse. In making this change the word college was dropped and the word school substituted, in accord with a policy of thc univer- sity, in which the teaching organizations under its jurisdiction are called schools rather than colleges. The new school took the name Northwestern University Dental School. Chicago Medical College also came int-o a closer relationship with the university and took the name Northwestern University Medical School. The new dental faculty was composed of Edgar D. Swain CDeanj, Edmund Noyes CSGCl'6iQ211'j'Il, G. Y. Black. GCOVHU H- 221