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

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THE MIRROR were not disappointed. Not only is the Baltimore woman beautiful to look upon, but she has a personality which distinguishes her as one of the foremost in the land. In a few days we leave you and your good city. Some of us will feel a certain something missing in the region of the heart; others who have been more fortunate, have succeeded in effecting a fair exchange in that commodity, whilst others are richer in friends and friend- ship ' s tokens; but all replete with recollections of pleasantly and profit- ably spent days. Faculty, honored and esteemed gentlemen: Wisdom may be attained by many by dint of hard work, but to teach others is a gift which few possess. Your proficiency along this line is manifested by the success which has crowned those who have been under your intellectual guidance. Look where you will, on this or the other side of the mighty water, and you will find in many of the high places of our profession repre- sentatives of this our Alma Mater, many of whom you have instructed. Today you are masters of your respective professions, not simply because you possess the required knowledge, but because of the right application of such knowledge and it has won for you the laurels you so well deserve. Not only have you narrated to us your numerous successes, but also j our failures. This is indeed where you have exhibited to us your nobility of character, as it is human nature to secrete the failures in the innermost depths of the heart. Your teachings have been characterised by firmness, thoroughness, willingness, patience, and kindness; and if we have been faithful we need not despair of the reception our educational status will meet in the world of thought. A great responsibility rests upon you as educators; for As the twig is bent so the tree inclines, and the first impulse of the thought we receive, we are prone to carry with us through life; your teachings will be a nucleus around which to fashion our future studies and research. You have taught us to think and act for ourselves, not to accept one theory or one statement but have revealed to us different opin- 19

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THE MIRROR Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, in the year 1839 by Dr. Chapin A. Harris, to whose name may all honor be ascribed. With our Alma Mater as a nucleus other Colleges were estabHshed and dentistry has by great strides, reached its present stage. The growth of this profession shows undeniably its great usefulness to humanity. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has beautifully expressed this in the following lines : The dental profession has established and prolonged the reign of beauty; it has added to the charms of social intercourse, and lent perfection to the accents of eloquence. It has taken from old age its most unwelcome feature and lengthened enjoyable human life far beyond the limit of the years when the toothless and purblind patriarch might exclaim. ' I have no pleasure in them. ' Ladies and Gentlemen: it was with this as one of the motives, that of being useful to our fellowmen by becoming members of the dental profession, that we, the class of 1907, came to your city in the fall of 1904. To leave Baltimore without endeavoring to thank you, its representative people, for the many benefits, advantages, kindnesses, and pleasurable experiences, which you have afforded us, would be to display a trait of ingratitude which should not be, and is not listed in the dental student ' s voluminous category of faults. Your magnificent edifices, beautiful homes, stately churches, glorious monuments, delightful parks, modern theaters, have excited our admiration. Of educational institutions you have an abundance. Your schools and colleges have a world wide fame, hence Baltimore has become the students ' home. But good people of Baltimore; it is you yourselves, of whom we wish to speak. If ever hospitality reached its highest development, if ever a stranger in a strange city experiences the sympathy and kind- ness for which he longs when away from home it is here in your midst. It seems to be a part of your nature to clear away the clouds of unhappiness which so often overshadow the everyday life of routine, with the gentle yet firm hand of friendship. This is general of Baltimore, but we must speak, in particular of the ladies. We came here in expectancy, having learned that Baltimore was noted for the marvelous beauty of the fair sex; and ladies, we 18

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THE MIRROR ions on stubborn questions and told us to draw our own conclusions. Permit us to add our greatest respect, esteem, and best wishes, to the blessings and congratulations conferred upon you by hundreds of our predecessors. During the last midsummer vacation in our several homes all over the country, we received the sad inteUigence that Death ' s angel had entered into your midst and taken to rest one of our most beloved professors. Dr. Thomas S. Latimer. Words fail us in the expression of our grief. He was a man in every sense of the word. In the classroom he was firm, thorough, willing and faithful, even though in his last years it gave him great personal inconvenience to attend to his manifold duties. In the sick room he was gentle, kind, loving, patient and sympathetic; and known all over the city as the student ' s best friend. Many a student has called upon him for medical advice when his only ailment was homesickness and has come away with a light heart, the result of Dr. Latimer ' s kindness and sympathy. Those of us who have been so fortunate as to have been associated with our dear departed professor will carry, in memory to our graves, the picture of a model man. To the Class: Fellow Classmates: Tonight we are on the verge of a new career. What that career is to be is largely dependent on us as individuals. For three years we have been endeavoring to gain the knowledge sufficient to enable us to go out into the world and serve our fellow- men as dentists. Our instruction has been able and without egotism ; we can truthfully say we are well equipped for entrance into the portals of our chosen profession. The goal to be aimed at by every individual in the class should be the top of the ladder. Be not content to be one of the many, but strive to be one of the few. If any one of us has entered the profession of dentistry with the expectation of a life of ease he will be sadly dis- appointed or make a failure; for like success in any other line, success in dentistry is dependent upon hard work. We should aim at per- fection in all our operations, never slighting the least jot. New ideas, 20