Items of Interest, Volume 33Consolidated Dental Manufacturing Company, 1911 |
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Page 389 - ... acting dental surgeons, who shall have the same official status, pay, and allowances as the contract dental surgeons now authorized by law. Acting dental surgeons who have served three years in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of War shall be eligible for appointment as dental surgeons, and, after passing in a satisfactory manner an examination which may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, may be commissioned with the rank of first lieutenant in the dental corps to fill the vacancies...
Page 312 - That the time served by dental surgeons as acting dental or contract dental surgeons shall be reckoned in computing the increased service pay of such as are commissioned under this act. The appointees as acting dental surgeons must be citizens of the United States between twenty-one and twenty-seven years of age, graduates of a standard dental college, of good moral character and good professional education, and they shall be required to pass the usual physical examination required for appointment...
Page 596 - Ethics in a general sense is defined as "the science of right conduct and character; the science which treats of the nature and grounds of moral obligation and of the rules which ought to determine conduct in accordance with this obligation; the doctrine of man's duty in respect to himself and the rights of others.
Page 312 - Provided, That the contract dental surgeons attached to the Medical Department at the time of the passage of this Act may be eligible for appointment as first lieutenants, dental corps, without limitation as to age: And provided further, That the professional examination for such appointment may be waived in the case of contract dental surgeons in the service at the time of the passage of this Act, whose efficiency reports and entrance examinations are satisfactory.
Page 596 - Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law that it be attended with a sanction, or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
Page 331 - ... jet-black — the smooth velvety black skin that remains cold as a lizard under the tropical sun. It seems to me extremely beautiful. If it is beautiful in Art, why should it not be beautiful in Nature? As a matter of fact, it is, and has been so acknowledged even by the most prejudiced slave-owning races. Either Stanley — or Livingstone, perhaps — told the world that after long living in Africa the sight of white faces produced something like fear. (And the Evil Spirits of Africa are white.)...
Page 311 - Army; the number of dental surgeons shall not exceed sixty, and the number of acting dental surgeons shall be such as may, from time to time, be authorized by law. All original appointments to the Dental Corps shall be as acting dental surgeons, who shall have the same official status, pay, and allowances as the contract dental surgeons now authorized by law. Acting dental surgeons who have served three...
Page 313 - Commissioners only after competitive examination, and shall have had at least five years' experience in the practice of medicine in the District of -Columbia, and shall perform their duties under the direction of the Health Officer and according to rules formulated from time to time by him, which shall be subject to the approval of the board of education and the Commisioners.
Page 779 - I pledge allegiance to my flag, and to the Republic for which it stands; one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Page 798 - Applicant shall present to said board a certificate from the commissioner of education of this state, showing that before entering a dental college he or she had obtained an academic education consisting of a fouryear course of study in an approved public or private high school, or the equivalent thereof.