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

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3 ,; ■ The University Hospital Regarded as one of the finest in the country, the Hospital provided many interesting and instructive hours. From Dr. Bay ' s clinic and from his oral surgery operations, we gained much practical knowledge concerning the more difficult problems in dental practice. Page Ten

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The New . . . NOT until 18S2 did the University of Maryland establish a School of Dentistry, although the University claims to have given the first lectures on dentistry in America during the session 1821-1822. In 1837, a course of dental lectures was delivered by Horace Hayden to the medical classes. The failure ' of Hayden and Chapin Harris in their attempt to establish a dental department in the University resulted in their founding the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. The opening session began with a student enrollment of over sixty, which steadily increased to well over a hundred per class. A building designed specifically for the new dental department was constructed during the year of its founding on the northeast side of Greene Street, adjoin- ing the Medical School. This structure was enlarged at least four times before it was finally demolished and a new building erected on the same site in 1904. This building now houses many activities of the medical school of the University. On the fifteenth of June, 1923, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery was merged with the dental school of the University of Maryland and the whole placed under the supervision of the state. Five years later, the present building on the north- west corner of Lombard and Greene Streets was com- pleted and became the home of all dental education in Maryland. This structure is shared with the School of Pharmacv. It contains 45,000 square feet of floor space, and is fire- proof. The operative clinic is the largest under a single roof and contains one hundred and thirty-nine chairs. Its laboratories and lecture halls are ideally arranged and equipped. Briefly, our Alu?a Mater is a school of which we ma) ' be proud. Page Nine

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aA Vie iv of the Harris and Hayden Plaque from the Stairway Years ago, when we first entered the School, we climbed these stairs; we shall descend these stairs when we bid farewell to our Alma Mater. The presence of the plaque has reminded vis constantly of dentistry ' s indebtedness to Doctors Harris and Hayden, and has inspired us in our preparation for a dental career. Page Eleven