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

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Coming Z vents Cast Their Shadows Before. i OUR life at college, your work and your play, your success and your failures, your courtesy, your appli- cation and devotion to duties, is the hand-writing on the wall that foretells your history. When you begin the study of a profession, you become a member of the calling you have chosen, and it rests with you how important a part you are to play in it. Some one must come to the front every day to take the places of those whose labors are ended. The men to whom you have looked for aid and encouragement, who by their ability and integrity have achieved prominence, the men whom you delight to honor, and whose memory you will cherish, are passing away. The greatest honor you can show them is so to live that you can worthily take their places. How can you deserve that dis- tinction? Study the lives and life-work of the foremost men of any profession, follow them through their early strug- gles, note the motives that inspired them. They began their studies as freshmen, as you did, they labored under the same difficulties that beset you. Indeed, the facilities and surroundings attending the pursuit of knowledge have vastly improved since they were students. The Royal Road is made easier every year, and it was their hard knocks that have to so great an extent smoothed your way. Obstacles to be over-come acted as stimuli. The pride of achievement was theirs; the ardent desire and determination to make the most of every opportunity inspired them. They were careful to give their best efforts to the smallest matter; no detail was over-looked. Above and before every bther consideration, they were honest. Honest to themselves, to their fellow students, to their teachers. No one can reach greatness and honor unless his integrity is above suspicion. With many such ex- amples before you, let no one be discouraged: Quit yourselves like men. Freshman, Junior, or Senior, apply yourself with diligence: do well the work in hand. There is within you the possibility of great men. Nourish that ambition and strive honorably to attain success in your profession and a warm place in the hearts of your friends. 17

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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 honors of the institution into Asia, Australia, and the land of the pyramids, while in every State of our Republic, and in all qarts 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 which 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 life, 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. i6

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The lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us. Foot-prints on the sands of time. ' Tis not given to every one to sit in high places , but every effort exerted lifts you higher and raises the the general level of your calling. Polonius ' advice to Laertes will help you in this: To thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day. Thou canst not then be false to any man. i8