University of Maryland Baltimore Dental School - Mirror Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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honors of the institution into Asia, Australia, and the land of the pyramids, while in every State of our Republic, and in all parts of Canada they have demonstrated their own worth and the excellent training afforded them by their Alma Mater. They have met with signal honor abroad, nearly every court dentist in Europe being a graduate of tfiis institution. Such in brief is the history of our dear old College, our beloved Alma Mater, where we are now seeking a training wliich will not only bring distinction to,and benefit us personally, but which shall instil nobler ideas into our minds, and so broaden our characters, that we may become better citizens, and better able to fill our allotted place in Iife» whatever it may be. And may we ever prove an honor to the calling in which we are about to engage, and to our best friend, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. iS

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D. D. S., and the first course of instruction was given in the winter of 1840-41. The didactic lectures were delivered in a small room, publicly situated, but the teachings of practical anatomy demanded privacy, and other prudential considerations also suggested the use for that purpose of a secluded stable loft, the prejudice of the community against dissection having shown itself some years before. Dr. Bond, in his valedictory to the graduates, at its first commencement exercises, March, 1 84 1, says: You have been taught that dental surgery is not a new art separate from, and independent of, general medicine; but that it is an important branch of the science of healing. You have seen and traced out the exquisitely beautiful machinery by which the human organism is everywhere knit together; you have carefully examined the phenomena of health and disease, as they are manifested in the dental arch, its connections and relations, and you have been taught to regard the human body as a whole, united in all its parts, and pervaded everywhere by strong and active sympathies; and your principles of practice have been carefully formed on a sound knowledge of general medicine and it is therefore that you must be thoroughly educated in the fundamental branches of medicine as the medical man himself. The college was organized with the design of teaching dentistry as a regular branch of medicine, and in order to denote the phenomenal progress of the old Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, start at the time of its birth; when there were about 1200 practitioners of dentistry in America, mere than once-half of whom were ignorant, incapable men, whose knowledge was composed of a few secrets which they had purchased at fabulous prices from other char- latans, and who considered three or four weeks ample time in which to attain all the knowledge necessary to the suc- cessful pursuit of the calling, and contrast the requirements of that time with those of the present day. This is the sixty-third year of the career of the College with its prospects for usefulness brighter than ever. It has added to its Faculty and clini cal corps strong and active men, and is better equipped to carry out the purpose of its inception than at any period of its existence. The results of its work in sixty-three years are world-wide in their influence upon dentistry. Over twenty-two hundred graduates have gone from this College into practice, and these are scattered all over the civilized world. They are located in nearly every city of Europe. They lead the profession in all the great centres of civilization and have won eminence in England, France, Russia, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. They have carried the 17

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,URGERV. Introduction. » ? » I AVING put your hand to the plough do not look back if you would drive a straight furrow, is old world philosophy not discredited by the new. Many furrows must we plough and deep if we wish to gather the ripened grain of such quality and quantity to repay the labor of seed time; nor must we give too exclusive thought to the quality of the harvest. Tares run through all the farmer ' s garnered autumn sheaves yet though the gleaners apron holds pure wheat we count her poorer . Even a little wild oats here and there may not be amiss if we do not fail in due season to plant the corn. Though we may hesitate to accept at its full Tennyson ' s suggestion, that had the wild oats not been sown, we scarce had grown the grain whereby a rpan may live; yet no doubt growth of any kind is an evidence of more or less fertility of soil and of some measure of cultivation. It is on stony ground only that no growth occurs. Mark Twain tells of an alpine farmer who accidently let go the handle of his plough and fell off his farm and we infer-was never after heard of although as Wm. Ellery Chauning, Jr., has it he may still be sounding and booming to an infinite abysm, whatever that may be. The lesson to be learned, however, is clear do not let go the handle of your plough whether to look back or by accident, especially when engaged in alpine farming, and in fact most farming is figuratively speaking, of that kind, and negligence is liable to be attended with disaster. Keep an eye to the distant end of the furrow and a firm grasp on the handle of the plough if you want to reap a full harvest instead of the whirlwind, or even the scanty, gleaner ' s apron full of pure wheat. 19