University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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OF DENTISTRY T HE recognition that dentistry is one of the greatest agencies of public service has brought many nev demands on the dental colleges. Students in the Dental College of the University of Nebraska are trained for the purpose of fulfilling these demands with the greatest perfection. The College is in a strategic position in the denta! education field. There are but ten dental colleges in the United States that have state university con- nections. This school is one of the four west of the Mississippi River. It has a high rating with the National Association of Dental Examiners and is a member in good standing of the American Associa- tion of Dental Schools. The leadership of the College of Dentistry may be viewed from two different angles: the leadership of the college in dental education, and the leadership of its alumni and faculty members in the professional field. The dentists now on the faculty have an aver- age teaching experience of ten years, and a clinical and private practice average of over eighteen years. The College of Dentistry was formed by an act of the legislature in 1919, growing out of the School of Dentistry, which had its root in the Lincoln Dental College, associated with the University of Nebraska in 1904. A three-year course was offered until 1917, when it was advanced to four or five years, with one year of academic work, thus warranting a degree of D. D. S. A six-year course is required for the degree of B. Sc, and D. D. S., and seven years for an A. B. and D. D. S. It has been recommended that the course be two years of predental work of college standing, three years of concentrated dentistry, and one graduate year. The average registration of the College is approximately one hundred and twelve. Until 1928, the clinical facilities of the College were housed in rented quarters downtown. In September, 1928, the College of Dentistry was moved into new quarters on the third floor of Andrews Hall. Each year additions are made to the equipment, making it most modern in every respect. The clinic offers a field in which the undergraduate may practice dental fundamentals and obtain as much actual experience as possible in his junior and senior years. One of the services which the College offers to the public, is that of reasonable prices for dental services. It also furnishes free dental services, with the exception of gold work, to the state wards at the State Home for Dependent Children, and has an arrangement with the city of Lincoln for an exchange whereby the city ' s unfortunates may have foci of infection in the oral cavity removed. The faculty of the College realizes that the prin- ciples of dental service are transcient ones. It aims, therefore, to equip students with a firm foundation and a mental outlook conducive to progress. Freshman-sophomore laboratory of the Dental College in Andrews Hall. Here sophomore students are learning the funda- mental principles of operative technique preparatory to practic- ing on actual patients in the dental clinic when they are juniors. Seniors at work in a laboratory of the College of Dentistry upon a project in prosthetic set-up. They are acquiring facility in a phase of their studies which directly prepares them to pass the state dental examination upon graduation. -29-

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THE COLLEGE DEAN A. GRUBB To Prospective Dental Students: I propose to list and discuss some questions that a prospective dental student should consider, or should have answered in determining v hether he desires and is qualified to enter the study of dentistry. One might well ask what is expected of a dentist. The general public would probably reply, A person with a fine personality and one capable of rendering the highest possible service. That does not go far enough. hHow may the prospective student deter- mine the possibility of latent ability? The profes- sional reply to that would be, first and primarily, that he ought to be possessed of a desire to render a service to humanity — because dentistry is a health service. To qualify for this service one should be mechanically inclined and medically minded. By medically minded I mean an interest in the medical subjects such as physics, chemistry, anatomy, histo- logy, physiology, bacteriology, and pathology, for truly the dental practitioner is a dental physician, hie not only is responsible for the health of the mouth but also systematic health in so far as mouth condi- tions are the cause of ill health. Mechanically inclined is not so easily disposed of. A good background of physics is most desirable because mechanics, heat, light, sound, and electricity all have more or less bearing on the practice of den- tistry. One must be skilled with his hands to the point of making them produce results recognizable by eyesight as reproductions of the mental vision. There is opportunity to maintain or reproduce facial con- tour — sculptoring. One must have a preception of color and shades, hie is called upon to plan and build contrivances to span dental spaces. In short, the dentist must be a composite individual partaking of the qualifications found in the sculptor, the artist, the architect, and the physician. 1 have purposely left one factor that is universally used in selecting a vocation and rightly so. 1 refer to the question, What Is the opportunity for remun- eration? If the prospective student will not be satisfied wtih less than a gold mine as remunera- tion, he should forget dentistry. But rather he should be content with a good living and a competence for old age as sufficient financial merit. Past experience has proven that to be the status of the members of the dental profession. Sincerely, A view showing part of the clinic of the College of Dentistry, which Is located on the third floor of Andrews Hall. It is ' n this clinic that junior and senior students of dentistry get experience In the practice of their profession. One of the private rooms In the College of Dentistry where each individual dental student is given his examinations. The plan of the private room is much like that of a modern dental office.

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THE COLLEGE DEAN O. J. FERGUSON To Friends of the University: The famous Morrill Act of Congress in 1862 is the foundation upon which was organized at the Univer- sity of Nebraska instruction in both agriculture and mechanic arts. Since their beginnings they have both progressed to a phenomenal degree. The advances of the engineering arts themselves and of the schools teaching their scientific bases have been mutually stimulating. Engineering has been given a professional rating, because of its well organ- ized applications of scientific principles. It is one ot the great forces in modern civilization. Engineering is built upon the physical sciences, — physics and chemistry, and mathematics and econ- omics. The engineer is greater than his profession, however, and must take his place in the citizenship of his community, hie can do this only by interesting himself in the social significance of his work. It is therefore advantageous to his development that he find available to him, as he does here, the courses and associations of the social sciences, English and literature. We value highly the condition which makes this possible at Nebraska, and urge enrollment in such courses wherever practicable. More specifically, with reference to the engineer- ing courses themselves, we may indicate that groups of study are arranged in Architectural Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. They are organized to stress funda- mental work in the sciences, mathematics, economics and English. Architecture and Architectural Drawing Design are typically different from the engineering courses. In our several curricula we have certain courses which we consider rather unusual, and quite importani aspects of today ' s engineering training. To cite only a few of these, we may mention metallography and the heat treatment of metals, with all that it means in the uses of new alloys; rural electrification in theory and in practice; farm power machinery; water resources and their utilization; city planning for modern conditions; electric transmission, for power and for communication; the chemistry of water and of petroleum; and architecture of rural communities. Others could be given if space permitted. Our aim is to serve the state in its development, and its citizens in their training for responsible work in engineering and architecture. Sincerel y. View of a class in a laboratory in the basement of Mechanical Engineering Hall. These students are making a number of tests upon automobile engines, employing an electric dynamometer. They are supervised by Associate Professor A. A. Luebs. A class in Practical Mechanics at work in a labordtory In Mechanical Engineering Hall. They are studying the funda- mentals of foundry moulding and are shown here constructing mou ' ds for castings as directed by Professor A. E. Bunting. —30—