Philadelphia Dental College - Class Book Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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' llllllllllllllllwlllll IllIllllllllllllllllllwglllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllIIlllllllllIlllY iswv ,WWW as : J A G Q MIIIlIllllIlllllllllIllIlIllIlllllllllIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllIlIHllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllk iwa illM!:b-.::1!A'Ms 1? ,flirt H : Qillu LH! 7' f . : . 0, .- , 2 fl i YABSO lass Dav Exercises, march sl, lsos, Q of the Philadelphia Dental Zollege and Garretsen Bospltal of 0ral Surgery Llllilllkl' am! G'L'llff1.'ll1C'll, rlfgfflf AIIIIUIYZAXI3 'Q'lIL'.Yf.l' as.vz'111Nv1!, lllL'lllbL'l'5 ry' lhr'j2Ir11!lfl', 1I1nz'jQ'!fo1t1-.vfmz'c11f.r .- PRESUME I may be severely criticised for having addressed the illustrious Class of '98 as fellow- students, for among our most highly distinguished members are some of God's fairest creatures- womell: but if you will go back with me to the pages of early history. yes. from the time of the very beginning, the time of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, I think you will agree witll me when I say, ever since that time, man has embraced woman. XVC are gathered together to-day to celebrate the event of the first Class Day in the history of this institution, and we sin- cerely trust that the example good old '98 has set may be per- petuated for lIllllC immemorial. It gives me great pleasure to make tllis address here to- day in your behalf, yet mingled with those feelings of pleasure are the sentiments of regret. I say of pleasure because for three 206

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How we will miss those hard seats. upon which we sat, I am sure that their hardness would move even a stoieg While the Profs, hour after hour tried our attention to gain, By lecturing from notes made in age Paleozoie. And old Philadelphia, with her maidens so lair, Now, they say we've become desperately dear: But next year they will capture some Junior and then, Womanlikc, they'll forget us in less than a year. Farewell to our landlady, with her stale bread and pieg And though absent afar. we shall think of her stillg But her reign is now over, and no more can she give Us that gentle reminder, Please settle your bill. Our course is rung our record's made: our heart with sorrow fills At thoughts of breaking tender ties and paying laundry bills. Fate's clock has struck. We're hit. And P. D. C. has hurled Her three-year children from her arms out on a wicked world. MEADE I. SCHENCK, '98, Class Poet. 205

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long years we have plodded along, side by side, with but a single purpose, that of obtaining one of the highest and most noble degrees to which mankind may aspire. Three years ago we came to the City of llrotherly Love, this centre of edu- cation, to study the profession of our choice, viz., Dentistry, a branch of the healing art, a specialty of surgery, and 1 ask you, what can be more honorable among men or praiseworthy among women than the selection of a profession, a knowledge of which and through which we are enabled to alleviate some of the pains of suffering humanity? In the good book are to be found these words: Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me. I say of regret, because the time of parting is near at hand, and, during the three years we have been so intimately asso- ciated one with another, some most pleasant and lasting relations of friendship have sprung up, the ties of which will be hard to tear asuuder. Cn the first of April you will be cast into a new world, and the stern realities and issues of life will be thrust upon you. Your education in this institution is completed, but your higher and better education is but just begun, and the faithfulness with which you have discharged your duties here will give you the just reward in the future. If you obtain anything good in this world, rest assured of one fact, you have got to work for itg when you find that which you love and enjoy, you must cherish it and see it grow under your hand as from the small acorn to the mighty oak, and so it has been with the Class of '98, We are no longer boys, but men, and let us bear up with the dignity that becomes the man. 'Tis nature's plan the child should grow into the man. It has been our pleasure and privilege to attend the most celebrated, and that which is recognized to be the most learned, institution for Dental education in the world. What has made it such? The life work of those gentlemen who constitute its faculty. I refer to Professors Guilford, Stellwagen, Howell, Boenning, Greenbaum and Burchard. The life work of these 207