Temple University School of Dentistry - Odontolog Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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PREFACE. T is with great pleasure that the compiler of the following sketches, constituting the make up of our college book for the last year of the dying century, undertakes his congenial task, only by its fidelity as a true reflex of the times and persons at interest can the volume be rightly appreciated. That wit and wisdom obtain in each department certainly goes without saying although the carping critic might claim the necessity of a libretto to discover alleged latent literary brilliancy. The several editors, however, have known only that delightful duty described by Shakespeare as the labor which physics pain. Each student has doubtless had his romantic dreams and dwelt for a time in castles not made by hands, and while this work contains no account of the delightful doings of a dainty delectable Daisy Dentin and her peerless Peter Pulp, still between the lines each dear boy and dearer girl can revive the olden, golden gladness of the happy days spent at Philadelphia Dental College. Truly we feel the future in the instant electric with possibility; up in the grand old Commonwealth of Massachusetts we never prophesy unless we know, and yet it takes no wise man from the East to predict that the graduates of the year 1900 promise to surpass all preceding classes in works of original research and such other important technical labors and discoveries in medical and mechanical dentistry. For valuable assistance rendered me by the members of the Faculty, fellow students of the editorial staff, Mr. John Fitz, for his excellent 9

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In 18S1, he was elected Professor of Operative and Prosthetic Dentistry in the Philadelphia Dental College, which chair he still holds. After the death of Prof. Garretson in October, 1895, succeeded him as Dean of the Institution. Prof. Guilford is the author of two works, “Nitrous Oxide, published in 1887, ancl “Orthodontia, published in 1889. The latter is a college text-book, and is now in its third edition. He also wrote the sections on “Orthodontia,’’ “Anomalies of the Teetli and Maxillae” and “Hypercementosis of the American System of Dentistry,” and the chapters on “Preparation of Cavities” and “Contour Filling” for the American Text-book of Operative Dentistry. He also has been a frequent contributor to the best periodical literature of his profession. He has served as President of the National Association of Dental Faculties, the Pennsylvania State Dental Society, the Odontological Society of Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Academy of Stomatology. He has been Vice-President of the National Dental Association. Besides holding active membership in many dental organizations, he is an Honorary Member of the First District Dental Society of the State of New York, and of the State Dental Society of New York, and a “Fellow of the American Academy of Dental Science of Massachusetts. 8

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work in line drawing, and Dr. W. H. Barclay, of the University of Pennsylvania, the most genial of gentleman, I remain their grateful debtor; and to all those whose names escape particular mention but whose gracious helpfulness is enshrined forever in my heart of hearts, I extend sincere thanks. Animated by an ardent desire to offer only our best and most characteristic thoughts, we make no claim to scholastic distinction, desiring only to hold the mirror up to nature, to show, as Hamlet says, the time its form and pressure; and finally, with an eye single to please rather than to instruct we rest in the hope that our readers will “Be to our faults a little blind And to our virtues very kind.” JOHN FRANCIS MULLINS, Editor-in-CJiief. ro