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

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PROP. D'ANCONA: A good rule for the proper quantity of sleep is, 'GO to bed when you're sleepy, and get up when you have to. ' PROP. VVILLIAMSON: Where does the left recurrent laryngeal nerve rise ? W'-LLMMS: L' From the right pneumogastricf' PROP. : ttThe left would be rzlghf, Mr. VV., the left would be fig-Af. DR. HODGPN: And now we come to those combinations of elements known as salts. Have I given you any salts yet? 3' CGreat sensation.j - f' DR. LIKENS Qextracting under chloroform, from force of habitj: H Open wide, now. PROP. LENGPELD: Acids are injurious to the teeth, and should always be taken through a glass .radii PROP. D'ANcONA: Now give me some examples of seeing by suggestion. G-MB-Z-: HWhS11 a man is drunk, he sometimes imagines he sees things coming at him. B-K-R-: If a man is hiding from the police in a dark corner, he imagines he sees Officers approaching. PROP. T-: Quite right, gentlemen, but don't coniine yourselves to personal experience. l ' R P-TT-s-N- Qansweringj: L' Vermilion is used to color red rubberf' DR. HODGEN: No, Mr. P., it is used to color rubber red. PROP. W1LL1AMsoN Qquizzingj: Mr. Fogarty. CHORUS OF JUNIORS: Mr. F. is not in our class. PROF. iz Oh! my apologies to Mr. Fogarty. CCollapse of chorusj As Prof. Lengfeld was lecturing on the chief uses made of phos- phorus, a street pedler opened the class room door, and called out, Matches PROP. DlANCONA Cparaphrasedj: This was the good old golden rule XVhen first the world began : Let him take who hath the power, And let him hold who can. 69

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Muggets from the Ebental 1kIonoQRe PROF. SULLIVAN: 'K Punctuality is the politeness of kings. PROF. D'ANQONA: Progress is rebellion against authority. PROF. DUNBAR: 'A There are such things as moral cripplesf' PROF. WILLIAMSON: The floor of the fourth ventricle is a refuge in time of trouble. PROF. D'ANCONA: Childhood is the period of impulse and passion, and not of innocence and purity. PROF. : 'tldeas are like beards. Men seldom wear them Women, never. 'l PROF. LENGEELD: Without phosphorus is neither thought nor life. PROF. GODDARD: Cleanliness is next to godlinessf' PROF. I-IODGEN: A baby patient is theizefe noire of practise. PROE. SHARP: It is far better to prevent than to cure.', PROF.V D'ANcoNA: Evolution is a settled fact. Its discordant notes can not be recognized amid the chorus of assent? PROF. HODGEN: We have quack journals as Well as quack dentists! PROF. GREEN: The aiiinities of elements are like the affinities of sex. Vile know the facts. We don't know why. 2? .25 ct H PATIENT: jfun with the Dons He makes all the students sit straight in a line, As if they had rulers instead of a spine, It's risky to cough, and it's not safe to grin, W'l1en the teacher gets cross and his dimples go in. But the teacher gets good, and his smile it gets bright, And the questions get straight, and the answers get right, And the students feel happy and fairly could shout, 'When the teacher gets good, and his dimples come out. Do you iill teeth here? H DR. LITTON: W'ell, sometimes we fill czwz'i1'es. 68

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PROP. HODGEN: 1' The only good use for a poodle is to fasten him to a pole to wash windows with. PROP. GODDARD: A plate with the anterior teeth slanting from the median line always puts me in mind of the cow-catcher on a locomotive. i ' PROP. LENGPELD, lecturing on the manufacture of sulphuric acid, inadvertently stated that the chambers were lined with zincg but, noticing his error, said: Excuse me, gentlemen, it is not zinc, but lead. I don't know how I got my head full of zinc. QSudden increase of interest among students.D DR. HODGEN: What is the effect of tobacco on the teeth ? T-N-X'-N2 It preserves them. DR. H.: Don't tell that to your mother, Mr. T., or she may lose coniidence in you. PROP. WILLIAMSON Qrebuking a noisy demonstrationj: I can not blame you entirely. The delegation from Mill Valley probably feel enthusiastic on account of the rain. CProfound silence ensued.j PROP. LENGFELD Qlecturing on atomsj: In dividing up a substance, there at length comes a time when it can be divided no further, and we must stop. WHISPERED CHORUS: Let's stop now. PROP. GODDARD: Most animals are content with one or more teeth less than the normal number. But the hog has the full number,-forty-fourg perhaps because he is a hog. PROP. D'ANCONA: There is one good evidence against mind-reading. Any scientiiic truth develops into something of commercial value. A little plaything of the past has developed into the telephone of to-day, whereas mind-reading seems limited to finding hidden pins. PROP. DUNBAR: When it was the custom to file V-shaped spaces between the teeth, a man might speak of going 'to have his teeth set.' DR. WILLIAMSON, on being asked by a Freshman why he thought the brain was divided into two hemispheres, replied by asking the 70