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

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A Message From Our Dean I HE story of human life is too often chat of dreams unfulfilled, ideals unrealized, goals unattained. We journey for a lifetime toward something we have never seen. Because of the magnitude of the undertaking some failures arc normal and to be expected; in many instances so-called failure merely represents the inability of men to adjust themselves to the exacting conditions of a chosen vocation or calling. Success, the antithesis of failure, is not something for which men systematically prepare and toward which they conscientiously strive, nor is it an elusive ethereal substance which may be secured by artifice or by legerdemain. It is a by-product, the formal character of achievement of the individual who has applied his powers to a task for which nature has suited him and education equipped him to pursue. Success cannot be singled out as a material object; it is the intangible reward, spiritual or material, or both, of specially directed effort and rationally applied talents toward a definite purpose. Success is predicated upon subjective qualities, not upon material objective values. A student once asked the celebrated English painter, John Opie, Pray sir, may I ask you what you mix your color with? ; to which he replied, With brains, sir. Too many of us feel that tools are sufficient, that if we bring together the essential elements which enter into pursuit of a vocation, success is inevitable. One may have learned satisfac- torily the fundamental sciences prerequisite to the practice of dentistry; he may have acquired an acceptable degree of skill in its technological aspects; he may have a general understanding of his professional responsibilities; but these do not insure success. To these must be added a deep human understanding of the problem before him, and an adaptability that permits his easy adjustment to all difficult conditions with which he is confronted from day to day, and he must give himself without reserve both subjectively and objectively to his task. Success in its true sense depends more on the subjective qualities of the individual; it is cultivated, not captured. Page Eighteen

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zA View of The Museum This is the largest and most important museum of its kind. Its con- tents show the efforts of early dentistry and the gradual progress made- up to the present scientific heights. The most important item is a set of artificial dentures worn by George Washington and constructed by Dr. John Greenwood in 1798. Page Seventeen

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Reproduction of Oil Painting in the Office of the School J. BEN ROBINSON, D.D.S., F.A.C.D. Dean of the School of Dentistry Page Nineteen