University of the Pacific School of Dentistry - Chips Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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NARROWNESS I cannot refrain-at this point--from giving a little advice to the seniors, and incidentally, to those who will become Seniors next year, or in the years following. I shall take for my subject, Narrowness, and for my text a particularly pertinent saying by President Wfoodrow XVilson: I woulcln't be entitled to call myself an educated man if I did not keep my mind open to conviction on the very things I think I know something about. This mental attitude, coupled with a broad tolerance and an endeavor to take at least one view of each proposition from the standpoint of the other fellow before finally deciding it, will make 1ife's pathway more smooth. Serious dissentions-even profes- sional jealousies-cannot occur between those who are willing to meet on the common ground of good fellowship and a recogni- tion of the common brotherhood of mankind. In taking your part in the greater activities of life, do not forget that you are superior to many of those you come in con- tact with largely through your better opportunities for educa- tion, for culture and for refinement. Take your rightful place as leaders of whatever social or business circles you may choose, but let your leadership be that of kindness and love. This leadership will never want for a following, and the small effort required will ,be repaid a thousand-fold in not only honor and love, but also in the material things that go to aid in making life worth living. The College of Physicians and Surgeons and its instructors have given you of their best. Your equipment is second to none, but your future success depends upon yourself. Don't be smallg don't be narrow. Ile big, be broad-professionally, socially, mentally, morally. DRESS. An article on this subject was contributed by one high inau- thority in our College, with the request that the name of the author be not used, but merely the non de plume of Grandpa, The article, which was handed to me a few days ago, expresses what I would like to say but in much better and more forceful language than I am capable of. The article follows: All hail the College student, with his yellow shoes. trousers held in place with a strap, soft bosom, cuffless shirt, no vest, sack coat with remnants of .llull Durham in every pocket, and a soft slouch hat that looks like a restaurant pie. ' 21

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EDITORIAL .HY is an editorial? Frankly, I don't know. I suppose it is one of those things that are merely because it has been. However, it is expecting too much of an individual to assume he will forego such a chance as this. ligotism is a universal attribute of the human mind. Here before me, figuratively bound and gagged, with no power to object or reply, is an audience composed of practically all the faculty and students, and many of the alumni of an institution of higher learning. This institution, to each one of us, and for our par- ticular purpose, has been selected by us as the best institution of its kind in existence. Only once in a lifetime is given to one the opportunity which is now mine. l'recedent says I should here thank the members of the staff and the various other contributors for the part each has taken in making this book what it is. I do this most sincerely, and wish to also include Messrs. Anderson and llrown, heads of the Art and llusiness departments, without whose untiring efforts there would have been no 1913 Chips. The book speaks for itself. The measure of success we have attained is for you to judge. ' . Some of our professors, when the attendance at their lectures is small, waste valuable time scolding the absent ones to the few who are present. It is with difficulty that I refrain from making a like mistake and expressing my opinion of the very few who have not given the 1913 Chips the support it deserves. But they are the ones who will not see the inside of this book-so what's the use? lt is customary for college annuals to be edited and published largely or entirely by the junior Class. I have no fault to find with this custom 3 but it seems to me that special attention should be given to the Seniors. It is their last year in college, and we all join in wishing each and every one of them the greatest possible success and happiness as they enter their life work in their chosen professions. Let us all join in making their last days with us days of pleasure and profit, that they may take with them joyful remembrances of their final days at their Alma Mater. Our last impression is the one that abides. Let us ever strive to make all final impressions pleasant. 20

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After years of student life and application, the student receives his diploma from his Alma Mater. A complete change should take place in his dress. He should adopt a Prince Albert or cutaway coat, silk or derby hat, white and starched linen, and neat black shoes. A laxity in dress tends to create a similar condi- tion as regards manners, condition of office, and to all services rendered. It is very apt to develop lounging, careless habits. Extremes in matters of dress, as in everything else, are to be avoided. VVe should not sac- rifice equally important duties to excel in thisf by such a course more may be lost than gained. The desirable end is to present a tasteful and creditable appearance, without a useless waste of time and material. A We should dress according to the position we oc- cupy and in harmony with the surroundings in which We may be placed. Young men should be well dressed, not foppishly, but neatly, and never beyond their means. Do not spend all your earnings as fast as received, for accident or illness might make you an object of charity. A gentleman's apparel should be neat, his linen clean and his boots well blacked. I-Ie should wear only 'such jewelry as is useful. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. E regard an editor as being a servant, rather than a moral or ethical advisor of his constituency. His work should consist, therefore, in doing as he is instructed, and not in instructing others. Comment, however, is allowable. Accordingly, it is in the spirit and light of comment that the edi- torial remarks of the Chips dental department are to be inter- preted. As in all phases of human development, there is in dental science a satisfied and a dissatisfied element. .Both are necessary in their way. The one acts as a check upon the other by prevent- ing the general application of newly discovered principles until they have been tried in the medical court of appeals-the clinic. Yet it is the last named of the two which is responsible for all discovery, saving the purely accidental, and which, in dental science as in others, is continually reaching out for that broader grasp of cause' and effectg that wider range of principle, which 22