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

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embryo body of Freshmen, all of which upon analysis, shows the presence of a great joke. The remainder of the time the members suc- ceeded in keeping the air full of bouquets which they hurled at each other, and as a befitting finale the students were informed that the clerk tHorrors! lj was waiting in his office for all the moneys they had,-and all they expected to get in the next three years. After having variously tried to find soft spots on the granite steps, which trials extended over a period of several days, the first steps Qnot granitej in dentistry were illustrated by Dr. Maunk, and consisted of a lecture and demonstration on How to Burn Gas and take Impressions. The students on this occasion had various degrees of success, Stevens having secured and offered for sale an impression in ten min- utes after the gate went up, and Kaufmann put a red-hot tray in the mouth of a now wise student, and after the first attempted out- burst on the part of his patient, he tarried not, and while en route for parts unknown, wished himself back in old Berlin where wooden shoes and sound teeth are worn by all the natives. Verily there issued from the Laboratory in that first week, harmony of sweet sounds, not paralleled by the noisome running of the college car nor the din of a blacksmith shop. Montague leads us and, in fact, we need leading, and are fortunate in the possession of one so capable, possessing as he does the combined qualities of a Demosthenes and excellent herding ability. Steinmiller is Treasurer, a good and noble office with much honor and a blank Ledgeitg he has acquitted himself of his arduous duties in a fitting manner. Evans, the Scribe, has a shorthand system of his own and, when stuck, has on more than one occasion shown his ability at extemporizing-the same not complicating matters any, as the minutes of any previous meeting were things long forgotten by the members of the class. VVhat! Remember minutes when the meanings of cohesion, molecules, atoms, elements and unponderable masses were being hurled at them accompanied by diverse and sundry threats by the genial Dr. Hodgen! No, Sir! It did not take joe Mazza, alias Zaza, long to assert himself as a class-leader in certain elementary and primitive forms of fun, such as dropping off roofs, chasing and capturing goats and all such genteel acts as learned in the bright vicinity of Santa Rosa. Zaza's varied love 46

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if , I 1 sf P Jxu fy, HE class of '05 presents for con- sideration, at First glance of its personnel, the fact that it is cosmo- politan, consisting as it does of students of American, Scandinavian, Missourian, German, Swiss and Californian birth, and the members have a feeling of sorrow that it is without its accustomed Jap, Numerically it is below the average, Qthe mental standing will be determined by the faeultyj, and the loss of numbers in the case of one student, Quinn, recalls the memory ofa constant subscriber to the Youth's Com- panion in the form of those that you make yourself from Durham and Wlieat Straw. I-le had a supreme contempt for the elementary principles of Prosthetic Den- tistry, all of which he considered play. From personal experience and long asso- ciation with the members of this class, I am empowered to say that it was with joy and happiness that they assembled in the presence ofthe upper classmen last Sep- tember, to be talked to and looked over by the faculty. QThe preceding words may be reversed to describe the present attitude of that bodyj Cn this most auspicious occasion, the faculty took turns in telling the class that it was a serious proposition they were up against, and a corresponclmo element of seriousness was to he expected from this 45

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affairs were also the subject of discussion for a period, and he is given to sudden attacks of Aphasia when called upon in quizzes. lYe have for consideration here, an imported article in the person of Adam :Xdolph Wlolfgang lfoerster, made in South Germany, and whose progress in things American and XfVestern has been so rapid that he now carries a latch key, and a prediction has been made that during his Junior year he will smoke. The class is nearly co-edless, but this alarming condition is partly remedied in the possession of lXlaud Lewis, a sweet thing, loved by all, and who has such a dainty way of occupying most of the lecture periods in cleaning his glasses and fussing in a sweet feminine manner. Bill Flood 25 a general all-around athlete in VOIlcQ'fZll0Il5l'.YllI can't be beat. Bill is always champing at the bit and has a failing for telephone girls. Of course Hill can't be blamed, but he should be more careful. Syverson has traveled, has viewed and known many things, the knowledge whereof he deals out without solicitation, and, if you don't want it, you get it just the same and at the same price. Minor comes from the web-foot district of Humboldt County, and tells many tales of the I25 inches of rain, and trees of such dimensions that in order to walk around one of them you have to make such an early start that you meet yourself returning. Saffy Minor is exceedingly fond of dissecting and never misses a chance-of escaping. llleazer is another young man fond of dissect- ing and also possesses many tales of wonderful things that happened to him at a summer session at Berkeley. and has a local reputation of being the best hand in college at taking impressions. Strub knows more of the records of several thousand baseball players than of the minute structure of a tooth or kindred subjects. Swain and Tufts can consume more boot-jack plug cut than a camp full of loggers, and both are very adroit in the Bradbury act. Bill Kedian, he of the Romanesque features, should prove an entire success as a dentist. if the pet theory of Physiogmists relative to size and shape of a proboscis, and successes don't go back on him. Hill. we hope it don't. The police would prohibit the publication of any minute history of the remaining members of this class and they will have to be considered -L7