DELIVERED AT THE FIRST COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF THE DENTAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.

BY

S. W. DENNIS, M. D., D. D. S.

Ex-Dean and Professor of Operative Dentistry and Dental Histology in the Dental Department

of the University of California; Ex-President of the California State Dental Association,

San Francisco Dental Association, California State Board of Dental Examiners, and

San Francisco Microscopical Society; ex-Vice-President of the American Den

tal Association, Inter-National Medical Congress, Dental Section, and

American Society of Microscopists; Member Royal Microscopical

Society, American Medical Association, and Medical So

ciety of the State of California, and Associate
Member of the New York Odontological

Society, and Corresponding Mem

ber of Ohio State Dental

Association,

etc., etc.

REVISED.

SAN FRANCISCO

A. J. LEARY, PRINTER, 402-408 SANSOME ST.

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AT THE FIRST COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF THE DENTAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.

S. W. DENNIS, M. D., D. D. S.

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102-408 SME ST.

(ON BEHALF OF THE FACULTY)

·BY

S. W. DENNIS, M. D., D. D. S.

MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN :

Since the dawn of civilization, the enfranchisement of human reason, the cultivation of human thought and character, it has been customary for the friends of education and educational institutions to assemble on occasions of this kind, and rejoice at the welding of another link to the great and endless chain of intellectual development and human progress; also to bid God-speed to the first offerings of the institution's maternal care.

The problem of education, in every civilized land, has engaged the earnest attention and consideration of the most intellectual and progressive minds, and is acknowledged by all to be one of difficult solution.

But there can be no question that the limit of human life, of mental power, and the incomprehensibility of universal law and matter by man, demand the organization of thought, the division of labor and the classification of education.

DENTAL COLLEGES AND DENTAL EDUCATION.

In general terms we define a Dental College to be a school of Dentistry, embracing a prescribed course of study for the crystalization and centralization of knowledge pertaining to the dental organs, and the diffusion of that knowledge in the profession and among the people.

The late Professor Austin said: "But few minds can even approach that universality of genius which characterized Hippocrates and Hunter, hence devotion to a specialty of the medical art detracts nothing from the position which a man's talents entitle him to assume.