UCSF School of Dentistry - Chaff Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Ebe Glass of llflinetvsnine 25 VVe work and laugh together, As student friends and mates,- A polish in our manners And a polish on our plates. ' SYMBOL on coMPLET1oN. n suggests the end of the , century-fin de siecle, up to date, perfection. Another year of study has but added to the laurels of our class, without increasing the self-esteem of its members. The satisfaction of work well performed is sufficient for modest worth. First in study as in fun, iirst in laboratory as in field, has ever been our aimg and if we have not always hit the mark, it will only serve to remind us that after all we are but mortal, and a little lower than the angels. The junior class is always one whose position is to be envied. It has grown out of that callow verdancy that ever pertaineth unto Freshmen, and it is still securely guarded by the protecting arm of alma warez' from the dangers and perils that the Seniors have so soon to face. i The Ninety and Nine still safely stay ' In the shelter of the fold, W'hile the Ninety and Eight are far away, Where fodder is short and skies are gray, ' And the world is, oh, so cold! Time is not always measured by days, and having in the two years of our college life acquired a vast store of dental knowledge, it seems a long way to look back to the time when we first gathered in the lecture room to listen, awestruck and spellbound, to the Dean's opening address. The events of our Freshman laboratory life are now matters of history. Plaster impressions have lost their mystery and terror, and though obturators and gum teeth are still our portion, our knowledge of them now is not that wilderness it was in those far-off times. 54

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showed their ability during the hrst month of college, and others too numerous to mention, completed the list of our early collection of talent. As juniors We succeeded in upholding the reputation which we gained as Freshmen. Of course a few cerebrums enlarged. Did a class ever pass from the first into the second year without having that unfor- tunate experience? These enlargements caused us no annoyance, except in one or two instances where the cranium did not expand in proportion to the cerebral growth. Then a troublesome case of sore- head developed. It was in this year that we had an aggregation of baseball men that treated a Freshman team very impolitely. For score see last edition of CHAFF. Of course the prominent position which we secured in track athletics our first year was retained. It was a pitiful sight to see the ,QQ and '97 teams playing tag, while far in advance was the ,925 team, showing them how the race should be run. Our voyage from the Junior to the Senior was accomplished with that ease and dignity that have ever characterized our actions. Modesty almost but not quite prevents us from saying that we are the model class of the Dental College. Final examinations now loom up threaten- ingly before us. If success in the past is a guarantee for the future, we may feel assured that our object will be attained. May that good- fortune which has favored us smile upon our friends in other classes, and this beautiful edition of CHAFF. its nl ig: R, Pg? .- bib xx.. as NJ! 53

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The operating chair has opened up an entirely new vista of the possibilities of education, and our modest accounts of the wondrous- cases that have fallen to our lot, and the mighty results that have followed upon our treatment and foresight, have often invoked a kindly smile from the august mentors, to whom we reverently look up for sympathy, guidance, and instruction. Our first impressions of one another, how they have differentiated? Some have but crystallized into friendships that bid fair to last for life, while others have been so modihed that once-ardent chums have drifted far apart. In class room, operating room, and laboratory stand- ing, too, there have been changes, and when the lecturers and demonstrators reckon up their jewels, it will be seen that the race is not always 'to the swift. Some of the unnoticed, plodding, determined ones are slowly and surely forging to the front,-men and women who will achieve success in life. ' We have had our student souls stirred by the momentous issues of class elections, and the claims of vociferous factions have been heard in the land. But through all our individual characteristics and differences there runs the golden thread of mutual regard, that, light as air and strong as iron, binds us together into that glorious aggregation, The Class of Ninety-nine. 999