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

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embyro junior if he had ever been in politics, on being answered in the negative, the doctor knowingly remarked, Well, if you ever are, you will wonder why it wasn't divided several more times. PROF. GREEN Clecturing on sulphur dioxidej: Sulphur dioxide dis- ' infects by uniting directly with certain elements in organic com- pounds. It unites directly with the microbe, and after the union the microbe is not in it. PROF. LENGFELD: Mr. Deckelman, what is the weight for a liter of hydrogen ? 'I MR. D.: A crisis. PROF. L.: you mean a crith. MR. D. Cpromptlyy f'Yes, a crith, doctor, a crith.', PROF. L: Now, Mr. Crith- CLaughter and blushesj PROF. LEWITT: Mr. Smyth, what is the shape of the bacillus of tuberculosis ? MR. S.: Something like a small frankfurterf' DR. CARLTON Clecturingj: Some of your patients will tell you that jaemzmzeazf fillings mean gold illings. But I have known cases where such fillings were so temporary that the motion of the elevator shook them out before the patient reached the street. DR. I. G. SHARP Qinaclvertentlyj: A bitter mouthful of taste. CI-Ie is still wondering why the Freshmen laughed.j PROP. SULLIVAN Cto Mr. Benzonyz Wa11t a patient? MR. B. Cmodestlyj: I am only a Freshman? PROF. S.: Oh, you looked so wise I thought you were a Junior! MR. KUSTER Qansweringjz Do you want to know why- PROF. D'ANCONA Qinterruptingj: No, Mr. Kusterg but I want you to tell me. A BOTTLE with some milk in it had accidentally been left on the lecturer's desk. Whexi Prof. Lengfeld came in, he gazed at it dubiously for a moment, and said, It is hardly the right color for me. A PROF. GREEN Qlecturingbz I never try to remember the specific gravities. I once knew a man who memorized the whole catalogue of them-and he never knew anything elsef' 71

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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

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PROF. XVILLIAMSON Qlecturingj: The liver has certain lobes and fissuresf' DEACON W. Ccoming out of a trance, whispers to his neighborj: What is that about the loaves and nshes ? PROF. GODDARD Clecturingjr You are familiar with the labial bow. MISS C. Qvvhisperingj: Maybe we are not familiar with the other kind of beau. :MISS B. Cwhisperingj: I have heard say that some beaux are Zabially inclined. DR. HODGEN Clecturing on mercuryj: Sit up, Mr. Millar: you act as though you Were sick. MR. M.: So I am, doctor: all salivated studying this subject. DR. TUGGLE: What different kinds of expression can be produced by the muscles of the face ? H MR. NEWMAN: Well, certain muscles produce a derisive smile, and certain others produce a happy smile. DR. T.: Well, go on: any other kinds of smile? MR. M.: There is another kind of 'smileg' but it is conveyed to the mouth by the muscles of the arm. PROF. GREEN: I used to think a philosopher's lamp was so called because no one but a philosopher could run it, and no one but a philosopher would use it. PROF. GODDARD: The Didelphia are strange creatures, neither one thing nor the other,--a sort of connecting link. You might call them the 'midway' animal. ' 72