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

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Class of 1906 Motto Colors ESSE QUAM VIDERE. GARNET AND GOLD. Flower PINK CARNATION. Yell Hoop-la-he, Hoop-la-ha. Sis, Boom, Bah, ' 06, ' 06, Rah! Rah! Rah! B. C. D. S. Rah. Officers Paul de G. Pickett, President. A. L. Harvin, Vice-President. N. B. GwYNN, Secretary. J. Fernandez Silva, Treasurer. J. U. Baker, Historian. Edgardo Caturla, Artist. L. R. GoRHAM, Prophet. A. F. Schlappi, Sergeant-at-Arms. F. P. Duffy, Valedictorian. Executive Committee P. De G. Pickett, Chairman. W. B. Sullivan. O. C. Post. A. P. Crist. ,J. L. Hennessey.

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History- Class of 1906 As the last fading rays of September, 1903, glided rapidly into the ocean of eternity, there was ushered into Baltimore a conglomeration of Doctors to be, to the tune of two-score and ten, who, keeping Time, time, time, in a sort of romantic rhyme, were to be ushered through the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery to contribute fuel to that already inextinguishable flame of knowledge burning in the shrine of lea rning and to contribute their fees to the bank account of the Faculty. On the first day of October, 1903, the Class of 1906 began its career. If one had the time to give a minute description of this mighty crew, one could easily compile a volume equal to Post ' s examination paper on Comparative Anatomy; but only being allowed a year in which to generate this superficial account, such a feat would border on the impossible. There were lean men, fat men, intellectual looking men, stupid looking men, big men with little brains, little men with big brains, and various non-describable men in this assemblage. Time passed pleasantly enough during the first year, after we had been taught by the upper class men how we should act as well as where we should sit in the Lecture Hall. The word dense is the most appropriate word to describe a student ' s life during the first year. He arrives at the college in a state of dense ignorance intellectually. He begins then to relieve this density by attending dense lectures, and by dense studying of dense subjects. He morally and spirit- ually sinks into a condition of dense uncertainty. He eats dense food, drinks dense liquids, and spends dense sums of papa ' s cash, and finally winds up at the end of the year in a condition of densest idiocy. One cannot but marvel at the general air of density that characterizes the very existence of the student in the first portion of his course; but delightful April, with its budding flowers, comes to relieve the monotony of this uncertain life, and this delightful month was a God- send to the Class of 1906, for it gave them once more a chance to breathe fresh country air, to shake off the shackles of a restricted life, to close those instruments of torture, the textbooks, for a while, at least, and flee as a bird back to the home of their childhood and the bosoms of those they love. October, 1904, saw the reappearance of the now famous 1906 as Juniors; all had fully recovered and were ready to step into the ring once more to battle for supremacy. When time had flown well enough along to allow the Freshmen Class of 1904 to feel its impor-