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

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gentlemen of the class whose literary efforts, embellish these pages, an editorial appreciation is extended equal in degree to that which readers will accord them. That our class has not passed its college life unscathed by the sickle which sweeps remorselessly through all ranks, is a source of grief which has received expression in these pages, and upon repeated occasions. It is to be hoped that this book represents but the initial number of a series of similar volumes., which shall record the life of every succeeding class of our Alma Mater. I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. WM fi l, f Jfafir

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llbreface Q09 Pl11l'1ClCl1Jll1'1 Dental College, has been no light one, although the labor is much lightened by the con- llE task of editing the first Class Book of the Z. sciousness that the work is done in the best of causes-viz.-to accord the college life of the Class of '98, and to celebrate the outgoing of the first class from the most modern- ized dental college in the world. The editor approached the task with a diffidence born of a conscious inability to do full justice to the importance' of the office, but has been upheld by the feeling that he who does his best, gives his all, so that whatever deficiencies may exist as to editorial performance, they are to be attributed to lack of skill, and not to earnestncss of purpose, it is this feeling which has rendered the work more a pleasure than a labor. The editor speaking for himself as well as for the class, rec- ords his keen appreciation of the assistance he has received from several sources, first, from the faculty of the college, for assis- tance and support both material and moral, without which the book must have inevitably suffered. Deep thanks are clue the editoral staff who have spared neither time nor energy to bring the book to a success- ful. issue. Thanks are due Mr. F. C. Parsons, from whose sketches the illustrations of the volume are drawn. To those

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Go the Jfacultg of the lpbtlabelpbla Dental Gollege. Tin recognition of tbeir unceastng efforts in our behalf ano in remembrance of their mann acts of kinbness beatoweb upon us ano our classmates 'Gbis :iBook is Elftectionatelg Eebicateb