Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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' A A Charles Cassidy Bass, M.D. Dean of tlie Scliool of Medicine and Pharmacy Tne College of Medicine Emerson once said, and very truly, The first wealth is health. It is more precious to a people than good roads ; the improvements of rivers and harbors ; the enlargement of army or navy ; the extension of commerce ; the fostering of agriculture, or the con- servation of natural resources. Upon good health depends efficiency and happiness. The line between efficiency and inefficiency is drawn upon the ability of the individual to go to work today; that between happiness and unhappiness upon the ability to enjoy the work of today. Health is the great problem of life. In the past health has been dependent largely upon curative medicine. In t he future it will be largely dependent upon preventive medicine. Statistics show that every fifty seconds a life is lost to our country through preventable diseases. Medical science believes that the known preventable diseases con- stitute only a fraction of those that can be prevented. Ever since its establishment in 1834, the Medical College of Tulane University has been doing its utmost to raise a standard of medical education throughout the country. Now, after ninety years of active existence, it has taken its place with the leading medi- cal colleges, not only of the state and country, but of the whole world. 37

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The Graduate School The Graduate School offers to men and women the opportunity of extending and rendering more thorough the scholarship obtained in the undergraduate courses, and of advancing the boundaries of knowledge by specialized work and original research. Properly prepared students who have obtained a baccalaureate degree and who are not candidates for a degree may be admitted, it being understood that the work under- taken by them must be all of a grade higher than that required for the baccalaureate degree. The admission of such students will be upon sanction of the professors under whom they are to study and of the Committee on Graduate Studies. The Graduate work done by this class of special students shall in no case count toward the acquisition of an advanced degree. 26

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Alfred Archinard Leefe, D.D.S. Dean of the School of Dentistry The College of Dentistry The School of Dentistry was organized twenty-six years ago as the New Orleans College of Dentistry, and in October, 1909, became the Dental Department of Tulane University of Louisiana. With this consolidation the equipment was largely added to, increasing materially the facilities for instruction. Additions to the equipment will be made each season as the progress of modern dentistry demands. Beginning with the session of 191 3- 19 14, the title of the Dental Department was changed to the School of Dentistry of the College of Medicine. The school is a member of the American Association of Dental Schools, and is recognized by the National Association of Dental Examiners. Beeginning with the session of 1917-1918, the School of Dentistry has offered a four year course, leading to the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. The School of Dentistry, beginning with the 1925-1926 session, requires a student to have successfully completed one year ' s study in the College of Arts and Sciences before enrolling in the Freshman class, thus making the study of dentistry a five-year course. It is for this reason that no Freshman class was enrolled this year. 28