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INTRODUCTION IN writing an introduction to a book of this character the scribe feels as though some incidental assistance, such as a few bars from “ Ten Thousand Fathoms Deep, or a passage or two read from a form of prayer prescribed for those about to sail in ships, would be in order, inasmuch as he launches at once into a sea of speculation. lie remembers how chaotic everything seemed when but three short years ago we met as individuals, and how the espit du corps, growing out of an agreeable association fostered within the walls of our honored Alma Mater, has crystalized out mutual interests into a homogenous force for the common weal—no longer chaos but Cosmos, mark you, with all that the comprehensive term implies. Calloused indeed must be the heart that fails to catch the momentousness of a souvenir embalming such recollections; the significance of an enlightened fraternity, taking its departure to all points of the compass, possibly never to meet again on this side of the Great Divide, makes us reflect that it is now that we behold ourselves in the unity of an integral representation. Philadelphia Dental College, with her wealth of tradition, has always been celebrated for turning out good men, capable of doing only good work ; the faculty ever firm, faithful and responsive to the students' needs, has conservatively inculcated ideas founded on practical experience : and, as a class, the graduates of lyoo yield to none in the happy accomplishment of brilliant results. In the retrospect, we don our rose-colored glasses to conjure up pictures of memory and hope ; the past and the present, the new friends now become as old familiar faces suggestive of kindly ways and helpful sympathy. Most of us are at the period of life when the youths of Rome assumed the toga varitis and became invested with civil rights ; this glorious time followed a youth of preparation just as mirth music flowers mantling glances of good will and affection from the fitting climax to our struggles of head and hands. Aldrich says : “ There are gains for all our losses. There is balm for all our pain— But when youth, the dream departs. There goes something from our hearts And it never comes again. 15
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The play is done, the honors won, and we realize that the prompter is about to ring down the curtain for the last time. Should fate prove unkind, even then we trust this book will prove an unfailing talisman : a special solace will be found if read in the shade of a buttonwood tree. The blessed print and pictures will recall much that was pleasant during the last three years of the nineteenth century ; with the classic writer one can say : 14 All of this I saw, part of it I was,” And so this volume, embracing much that was brightest and best in our college career, will become an abiding inspiration for all to come. Some may rise to high seats in our synagogues of learning, while others fall early by the way ; but all are children of the Philadelphia Dental College, and owe that tender mother an unswerving allegiance. ’Twas in her hospitable halls our minds knew expansion and our hands learned cunning ; there, too, we felt our hearts go out to those endeared by fraternal relations. “ Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to day his own. He who secure within can calmly say— To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Come foul or fair, come rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine— Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. ' J. K. M. 16
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