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

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THE MIRROR new methods in practice, will be advanced every day. We should advance with the age so that no man may say of one of us ' He belongs to the realms of the past. The prospects for the right kind of a dentist were never better than they are today. People in general are educated to the care of the teeth. Our public schools all over the land teach the children the necessity of preserving the dental mechanism for the prolongation of life and health. The standard of the dental profession has been, and is being raised daily. We are no longer alluded to as tooth carpenters but are considered professional men of a high type. With this fact in mind, wherever we locate let us show by our knowledge and skill, and above all by our intercourse with our fellowmen, that we are entitled to the honor and responsibility which has been entrusted to us. We came together in the fall of 1904, representatives of various parts of this and other countries, some from Canada, some from Cuba and Porto Rico, and some from a majority of the States of the Union. We were strangers to each other, to Baltimore, and to the profession. Soon, however, we came to know each other for we were brought together forcibly by our friends, the Juniors and Seniors, and painfully humiliated bj ludicrous decorations. We were introduced to Balti- more, joined by ties we could not sever. Our introduction to our pro- fession came at the hands of our beloved professors, in the shape of lectures, clinics, etc., and at the end of the college year we left for our respective homes. When we assembled again in the fall of 1905, we found that a few of our number were not with us but others had come to take their places . The Junior year passed pleasantly but comparatively unevent- fully; and when we again assembled in the fall of 1906, it was as Seniors, and for the first time we began to realize that we were nearing the end of our college days. This year has been one of earnest, faithful work, and tonight we have reached the goal toward which we have striven for the past three years, and the coveted reward, the sheep- skin, the thought of which has stimulated us to renewed effort when we were depressed by the many petty annoyances of our struggle, is within our grasp. Is it strange that tonight we should be happy; 21

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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

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THE MIRROR is it strange that we should feel rejoiced? Yet our joy is alloyed. Between us and the complete enjoyment of our victory there is a cloud of mingled regret and sadness. No longer shall we be associated in our labors and our festivities. Our college days, dear old college days, I dare say the happiest days of our lives, thus far, are over. The numerous well-known scenes, the many familiar faces we shall not see for a long time, yea, perhaps we have beheld them for the last time. Philosophize as you will, it still remains an impenetrably dark spot in the radiance of our joy. Three years ago we were strangers but the intimate association, the unanimity of aim has brought us into close relationship, and, as a natural sequence, fast friendships have been estabUshed. O that memory would be faithful to us ! Time rolls on relentlessly bringing in its wake all its inevitable changes. New hopes, new ambitions, new friends will come into our hves and gradually the memory of our college days will grow fainter and fainter and remain dormant until stimulated by some agent, perchance the aspect of the blending of the orange and the blue, to which colors we shall remain loyal, when we shall recall the inestimably valuable time spent within the walls of our Alma Mater. And the Monumental City, where we have enjoyed ourselves as only students can. Some of you will reap renown such as is befitting this Class of 1907, while others of us will move along in the even tenor of our hves, but may we all remember that; We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts, not breaths, In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heartbeats. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, and acts the best, for by that criterion shall we be judged by God and man. 22