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

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eeeding volumes of this publication, and knowing also that the higher stand- ard of real college life, the keener sense of larger vision of real college men, embraced in B. C. D. S. ' s rapid and permanent advancement demanded the publication of the best volume of our annual yet published, we have en- deavored to surpass all former editions. Whether we have succeeded or failed at this time we do not know. We have done our best, and it is before you. Here the thanks of the board are due to Student Body and Faculty for their loyal support, and to all who in any way have aided us. We have been exceedingly fortunate in that this publication has been the venture of the combined classes. We owe to the three classes especially our appreciation of their material aid. We are sorry that everything that has been handed in could not be published. But we have tried to make a book representative not of one class or kind, but of the whole of Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. We have tried to publish a clean, wholesome book, a book that will be acceptable to faculty, student body and friends of the school. Editors.

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LIBRA RY BALTIMORE COLLEGE OF DENTAL SURGERY. Editorial LL great schools have their foils and foibles, else they would not be great schools. Surveying that sentence critically it seems entirely .bromidic • and absolutely unnecessary. Still one must start an editorial by saying something, unless, perchance, one happens to be a literateur, when the in- evitable custom is to start by saying nothing. However, this is not a literary compendium. It is an editorial that is to be cluttered with and hampered by facts. Wherefore, having elucidated this matter, let us proceed in a digni- fied and scholarly way. This is the page that members of the ' ' Annual Board usually use in explanations, apologies, confessions, and other borrowed rhetoric. We have no such intentions. .We merely wish to set forth for your enlightenment and understanding a few facts. There has been an annual published for several years. During ; the last few years B. C. D. S. has taken more rapid strides in advancement than at any time in her previous Jristory. Knowing the high standard of the pre-

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LIBRARY BALTIMORE COLLEGE -OF DENTAL SURGERY Only the whole truth is true With less be not content Only the full measure is right When on right you ' re bent.