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

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ceedings, this was effected during the following spring on terms which, for the time, left the principal immediate management of the school in the hands of Dr. Menges, but provided for its ultimate com- plete ownership by the university. The faculty was again reorgan- ized, a part of each of the old faculties being retained. The new fac- ulty at the beginning of 1896-97 was composed of Edgar D. Swain fDeanj, G. V. Black, George H. Cushing, Thomas L. Gilmer, l. S. Marshall QEmeritusj, B. Cigrand, A. H. Peck, E. H. Angle.iEd- mund Noyes, I. B. Crissman, NV. B. Harper, G. XV. Haskins, .lames H. Prothero, G. W. Schwartz, Wfilliam Stearns, Charles B. Reed, F. B. Noyes, B. Wiggin, VV. T. Eckley, L. B. Haymen, George Leininger, C. E. Sayre, V. Hall and Theodore Menges CSecretary and Business Managerj. The dental school was removed to the building that ha.d been occupied by the American College of Dental Surgery, on the c-ornezr of Franklin and Madison streets, where it has since remained. In this building additional space co-uld be had from time to time 'for indefinite expansion.. In this arrangement the American College went out of existence, and as its students would have no alma mater it was agreed that those students who graduated from that college in 1890, and since, should be made alumni of North- western University Dental School. Northwestern University Dental School now undertook to teach allof the departments, including the fundamental branches, by its own professors and instructors, thus separating them entirely from the medical school. The work was now with much larger cla.sses than had before been assembled in dental schools,-and as the year passed it was se-en that while the general methods of instruc- tion in vogue were well adapted, much improvement in the system- atization of the work of the teaching force was desirable. At the end of the yea.r the Dean, Dr. Edgar D. Swain, resigned. Dr. Ci. Y. Black wa.s then appointed Dean, and was charged especially with the systema.tization of the methods of instruction. Each of the de- partments of instruction was gradually brought under the control of a single respo-nsible professor, who controlled the methods of presentation of the subjects in his field of work by those associated with him, and the courses of study so graded that the classes of each year 1-emgrined separate in the class room. Personal teaching was provided for by the separation of classes into sections and the arrangement of quiz masters and demonstrators for special duties. so that the individual student could at any time obtain a personal answer to his question or the demonstration of a technical procedure. 2:3

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Cushing, J. S. Marshall, Charles P. Pruyn, Isaac A. Freeman, Thomas L. Gilmer, Arthur B. Freeman, B. S. Palmer, W. V. B. Ames, Arthur E. Ma.tteson, E. L. Clifford, G. W. Haskins, G. VV. Vlfhitfield, D. M. Cattell and H. P. Smith. Arrangements were made with the medical school by which the dental stude-nts took the lectures in anatomy, physiology, histology, chemistry, materia medica and therapeutics, medical jurisprudence and genera.l surgery with the medical classes. The school was re- moved to more commodious quarters on Twenty-second Street, but near enough to be convenient to the medical school, which was also removed to new quarters -on Dearborn Street near Twenty-fourth. In the summer of ISQI the NationalAssociation of Dental Faculties passed an orde.r which required all schools affiliated with it to extend the co-urse of study to three terms of not less than six months each in separate years before graduation., This order was complied with at once and the neworganization began its first session with a class of fifty-three students, only six of who-m came from the old scho-ol. 'After two years in this location the schoo-l was m-oved into new buildings erected on Dearborn Street, between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-lifth streets, and was housed with the medical school, each, however, having its o-wn rooms, clinical outfits and laboratories. In this location., and with these arrangements, the school was fairly prosperous and the number of students more than doubled, so that in the fall of ISQS there were a hundred and twenty-eight. VVith this number in the dental school, and the continued increase in the medical school, the space was overcrowded, so that it became neces- sary to procure additio-na.l b-uildings outside fo-r a portion of the labo-ra.tories of the dental, school. This arrangement was very unsat- isfactory, as it required much running to and fro, and it was clear that something else must be do-ne in order to accommodate the in- creasing demands. - ln the mean-time the American College of Dental Surgery had been purchased -by Dr. Theodore Menges and o-thers, its equipment had been improved, it was beinig put in a. better condition for giving instruction, and its classes were rapidly increasing in numbers. Dr. Menges, who was showing much energy and tact, especially in gain- ing students, pro-posed in the winter of 1895-96 a consolidation of these two schools. After numerous conferences usual to such pro- 222

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F 1 l 1 2 .x......v.a. ......2.:1.:1.j H fl In 1898 the Northwestern Dental College was purchased, the college closed, and its plant a.dded to Northwestern University Den- tal School. This arrangement included the recognition of the recent graduates of the Northwestern Dental College as alumni .of North- western University Dental School. ,Q T A The school prospered and the classes increased,-in numbers steadily until, in ISQQ-IQOO, there were six hundred students. Addi- tional space in the building was obtained from timeto time for addi- tiona'l'--5labora.tories and class rooms. In 189.9 an entire additional floor wa.s added to gain additional space for necessary cla.ss rooms, lecture rooms and laboratories, and also to pro-vide space for a library, museum and reading room. It had been found particularly desirable that students be provided with well-arranged space in the school building, to whichthey could go during any leisure hour for the purpose of reading and study, or which they c-ouldoccupy at regular hours and find books up-on any to-pic in dentistryq The work of as- sembling a libra.ry and museum of comparativedental anatomy and dental patholo-gy wa.s actively undertaken and the material has been rapidly brought together, so- that at the present time these may be justly regarded as excellent, and as quite fully supplying the ,needs -of a denta.l schoo-l. To these, members of the profession have contrib- uted books, journals and specimens liberally, and have in this way very .materially aided in the gathering of the collection. This work is still in progress. Members o-f the profession may make use -of this library. ' U On the 1st of June, IQOO, Dr. Theodore Menges, Secretary and Business Manager .of Northwestern University Dental School, died of appendicitis, after an illnessof a little less than one week. He was thus cutoff se-eminglybefore his time in the midst of robust man- hood and mental vigor while in the active prosecution of the' work that seemed- to ha.ve been a.llotted him to do. His sudden death threw a wave of grief over all connected with the school, to its alumni, the dental profession and to-'all who k-new him and the work he was do-ing. He was an active, energetic and resistless worker, devot- ing his life to the upbuilding of the dental profession. Witli the death of Dr. Menges the dental school became com- pletely the property of Northwestern University., Dr. NN. E. Harper was appointed Secretary, and the school is going regularly forward with its work without o-ther change in its faculty. Its alumni now numbers about fourteen hundred. G. V. BLACK. 224