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

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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

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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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will eventually make of the dentist what he should logically be-a stomatologist in a truly comprehensive sense. In the pres- ent issue of Chips appears an article by a Senior Class member. It is written upon oral hygiene and indicates a conscious desire to establish the useful facts or fruits of stomatological experience into a closer relationship to human welfare. It is this phase of our development as medical people that we would emphasize. Sciences, like laws, produce no effect unless enforced. Let us both develop and enforce dental science, or better, let us say stomatological science. Let us see to it that it realizes its immense possibilities. It is not well to be too concerned with the commercial possibilities of dentistry. Those possibilities must be considered. but they are not all. And yet there are some who think of them only. Let us all pull together for the greater stomatology. EDITOR-IN-CHU-:1f. PHARMACY EDITORIAL URING the last decade much advancement has been made 4 in the art of Pharmacy and the sciences allied to it. There has also been a corresponding advance in the require- ments and skill demanded of the present pharmacist. Em- ployers no longer wish to run the risk of employing inexper- ienced youths to train, who have not had the preparatory foun- dation and knowledge which will enable them to give satisfactory service to their employer and the public. This necessary knowledge and skill can only be acquired by a thorough course in Pharmacy and its dependent sciences, obtained in a college for that purpose, and which is accredited by the State Board of Pharmacy. The Department of Pharmacy of the Ihysicians anc -ur- geons' College, conducted by the able Professors Flint, DuBois, Southard and their colleagues gives its students such a course of instruction. The College has not sought to secure the greatest number of students, but to do the greatest amount of good and to main- tain its record of having the highest percentage of graduates of any' college in this State to pass the State Iloard of Pharmacy. 3 ' l S JOHN A. TNICELHERN, Editor. 23