Washington University Saint Louis - Hatchet Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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-ga y . in 14--1 -ffl- ft ,id ji-E-iii 632341 ,I ,,.-1- ' III! l'f IIXH-111 U1 1 Hlliv: 3-ff 1' Qizffffa: , an 5-5, 'T 1 twllluligillultdll xffrziviixiftf .brfiucl uf' LQxilIfiit'lLf The School of Dentistry came into exist- ence in 1886 as the Missouri Denta1 Co11ege. 1n 1892 it became a department of Washing- ton University with the name Washington University Denta1 Department, and in 1928 the name was changed to the present day Washington University Schoo1 of Dentistry. The schooi is a member of the American Association of Denta1 Schoo1s and has been approved by the Councii of Denta1 Educa- tion of the American Denta1 Association. For the past four years the school has been under the guidance of Dean Otto Wi11iam Brandhorst. F 1' --.5714 1 fxgfi'-7' l'

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Business is slow, nobody wants a haircut. liflakina faces. fmenfa! 3400? 4559 Scott Avenue houses a proportion- ately small, but very important and famous division of our university-the Washington University School of Dentistry. The building itself is well equipped with laboratories, classrooms, one of the best dental libraries in the United States, recrea- tional rooms, and of course several rooms which comprise the dental clinic. ln the clinic, which is frequented by St. Louisans, each junior and senior in the school has his own unit. This unit consists of a dental chair and two cabinets furnished by the school and countless numbers of instru- ments owned. by the student. Here the would-be dentist works as if he were in his own private office. l-le has regular patients 28 whose cases he diagnoses and treats under the supervision of a faculty mem- ber. The juniors and seniors also have their own laboratory where they practice making dentures. As for the freshmen and sophomores, they too have a labor- atory, but their work is mainly that of study and not practice. Because the dental school is phys- ically detached from the main campus of Washington University, the dental stu- dents have formed their own clubs and activities. There are four dental fratern- ities A three social CDelta Sigma Delta, Xi Psi Phi, and Alpha Omegal and one honorary CQmicron Kappa Upsilonl. Then too, there are other organizations. For example, a large percentage of the stu- dents are from Arkansas and have formed a club of that name. Overseeing all activities is the Dental Schools student council, which is entirely separate from that of the main campus. Thais gold in them thar cavte

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we .SZAOQK of gngilzeering When Deans Stout and Fisher moved into their offices in the new Sever lnstitute, the School ot Engineering proudly opened its eighty-second year. The modern classrooms and laboratories in Sever are conducive to studyp and the new addition, together with Cupples l and ll, comprise a well-rounded plant tor the twelve hundred Engine students. Sever institute was established in 1948 and completed in time for the opening of the Fall Term, l949. Under the Graduate Division of Washington University's School ot Engineering, the lnstitute thus provides a fifth, sixth, and seventh year of graduate studyu