In the death of Senator Harry Lane there passed away an honest man. Sixty-two years of his life here gave proof of it. He was not only an honest man but a local character. Harry Lane was always himself and no one else. He was no base imitator. Wherever he was and whatever the conditions, he was always the same, a democrat in the broadest and best sense, his sympathies always with the under dog and those least able to take care of themselves. When practicing medicine the bulk of his work was done without charge. He was a man who never cared for money. No one could be simpler in his habits and tastes.

In personal association he was the most agreeable of companions. He

was full of humor and his mind was stored with a knowledge of woodcraft in which an Indian could not excel. In his youth he would stray into the primeval forest and be gone for days without companion and with nothing but his blanket, a piece of bacon and his trusty gun. He was an intense lover of nature and added wide scientific reading to the first-hand knowledge he himself had gathered in the woods.

A more physically courageous man never walked. Back of that he had moral courage to face any issue and fight it out to the limit. There was always something doing when he was about and the sessions of the medical society are things still talked of in the days when Dr. Harry Lane was in his prime. He was always a dangerous man on the rostrum. A ready off-hand talker, he knew human nature and had at his fingers' end a species of knowledge which he know how to use effectively. He knew the foibles of his fellows and punctured them. As a letter writer to the newspapers he could always command an audience and generally carried his point.

His campaign for senator was a marvel of its kind. Without newspaper support or sympathy, he took an old automobile and visited every nook in the state. He came unheralded and, plain as an old shoe, he met the people face to face and talked to them of things they could understand and with which they were in sympathy. Much to the public surprise, but not at all to his own he was elected against great political odds. In the first session of the senate that he attended he showed the same old spirit, but after that he seemed to lose his grip. It is now quite apparent why. The disease which finally carried him off was rapidly working its insidious way and unknown to himself was sapping his vigor and force.

The good that he did in the world will long be remembered of him; his foibles and frailties will soon be forgotten. He was an intensely human man who did the very best as he saw it. He feared no man or combination, and met death with the courage that marked his whole life.

Dr. Lane at the time of his death was 62 years of age. His father was Nat H. Lane, who was the first storekeeper on the east side of the Willamette at Portland. Harry was born at Corvallis, Oregon. His grandfather was the sturdy old fighter, General Joseph Lane, a fire-eating democrat of Southern sympathies, the first governor of the Territory of Oregon and its first U. S. Senator, and a candidate with Breckenridge in 1860 for Vice-President on the Democratic ticket. While Harry Lane was an ardent democrat, he was able to overcome some 40,444 republican majority, and in the primaries carry the state four years ago by a handsome plurality over his republican and progressive competitors. He was twice elected mayor of Portland.

Dr. Lane was a former president of the State Medical Society and the Portland City & County Medical Society. The medical societies took an important part in the imposing ceremonies of his funeral at Portland, May 29, 1917.

He left a widow and two daughters, Mrs. Nina McBride and Mrs. Harriet Hicks, to whom the Medical Sentinel extends its sympathies.

Drs. David N. Roberg, C. J. McCusker and J. M. Short, acting as a council committee of the City & County Medical Society of Portland, had charge of the medical fraternity of the city and state at the funeral. Some two hundred doctors were in attendance, sitting in a body at the services at the Masonic Temple. The funeral was in charge of friends, but was given a military character under orders of Governor Withycombe and with the services of national and state troops.

A delegation of sixteen U. S. Senators and Representatives from Washington, D. C., headed by Senator George E. Chamberlain, took a leading part in the obsequies.

OREGON DENTAL AND PHARMACY COLLEGE

Oregon certainly has reason to be proud of the North Pacific College of Dentistry and Pharmacy, which, under the very efficient management of Dean Herbert C. Miller, and the association therewith of a superb teaching faculty, have built up a school of the first quality.

Originally there were two dental colleges here, but some ten or fifteen years ago these schools were amalgamated into the present organization, one of the best in America. The new building now occupied by the college is an ornament to Portland, and the institution is one of the solid business enterprises of the city, in which the income is largely devoted to constant betterment of the working facilities in the interest of a model college for the North Pacific states.

The college is a member of the American Association and its influence for higher education along dental and pharmaceutical lines has been of decided service in advancing the corriculum and standardizing the course of study in these lines throughout the United States.

At the graduation exercises the following received degrees from the college:

Doctor of Dental Medicine: Noel Prentice Akers, Leroy Albright, Rowland Locke Atcheson, Lyle Arthur Baldwin, Allen Turner Bates, Nona Paul Bennet, Gordon Alden Billings, William Fred Bowman, Howard Gunder Bradbury, Hugh McCredie Breckon, Roy Earl Briggs, Philo Glenn Brown, Vivian Z. Brown, Ruric Lester Burdic, Jr., Frank Goodhue Burrell, Harold Goldwin Carson, Charles Joshua Coultas, William Michael Dale, Louis Allen Dillard, Melvin Orion Egbert, Elwood Byron Faxon, William Aylmer Fergie, Clinton Thomas Fleetwood, Josiah David Labau Fletcher, George Golden Forbes,

George E. Gaynor, Howard Ira Gilbert, Robert Reeves Glen, Edward Wayne Gourley, Philip Joseph Graef, Arthur William Hager, Arthur Wilmer Hahn, Robert Edwards Hampson, Frank Sylvester Heer, John Gilbert Hobson, Henry Leonard Holter, Walter Ralph Hooper, Aubrey Humphries, George Hiram Johnson, Toiva Solomon Johnson, William Harold Keller, Koudo Mori Katsu, Joseph Albert Kurlander, Albert Ernest Lawrence, Arthur Benjamin Leininger, Cecil Franklin Lindley, Ronald McCarter, Samuel Beckwith McClintock, Angus McInnes, Roy Manville Mellor, Leslie Vinton Merrill, Jh.G., Solomon Miller, Ph.G., LL.B., Henry Wellington Minton, Harold Farrar Mitchell, Edwin Morene, Frank Clifford Morse, John L. Mulder, Lester Lewis Murphy, Marguerite Marry Murphy, Olaf Thomas Olsen, Robert Ervin Ostermann, Russell R. Owens, Janfred Parpala, Arnold Pedersen, John Emery Pederson, Willard Arthur Peterson, Lawrence Finley Pickens, Edward Howard Phren, Frank Vernon Prime, Lonnie Ephraim Roberg, Lawrence Adolph Rosenthal, Alfred Schildt, Joseph Theodore Shimek, C. Slamberg, Reiba Lester Smith, Walter Kirby Sproule, William Linzy Stansbury, William Ronald Stokes, Merlin Rex Stoltz, Wallace Sundborg, Michael Conrad Sult, William Sylvester Thompson, Harry Winfield Titus, James Wendt Wabraushek, Donald Arneill Walker, Francis Senter Weir, Errol William Willett, Oscar Fred Willing, Lawrence Richard Wilson, Albert DeForest Woodmansee, Guy A. Woods, A.B.

Pharmaceutical Chemist: Louise Bailey Boyd, B.S.; Terrance Harold Eckerson, Ph.G.

Graduate of Pharmacy: Earl James Green, William Elmer Hamilton, Clement Lee McCoy, Earl J. McWhirter, Salomon Antonio Mauro, Earl Carlson Robinson, Benjamin Franklin Rogers, Darius H. Smyth, Edward Albert Steffen, Nellie Louise Taylor, Estelle Beatrice Thomas.

The total enrollment of students at North Pacific College for the year just closed was 482, almost 500. More than 30 states were represented, most of the Canadian Provinces and several foreign countries. The number of European students. has been reduced owing to the great conflict. Less than 3 per cent of the attendance comes from Multnomah County, about 16 per cent from the State of Oregon, and about 18 per cent from Washington.

The present session was the last when students might enter and complete the course in dentistry in three years. With the session beginning next September and thereafter, the course of instruction required for graduation will be four years.

A number of graduates are now serving in the Dental Corps

with the British and French Armies in France, taking care of the men in the trenches and serving in the hospitals. A goodly number of students have already responded to the call of the President and the present graduating class in dentistry will help to augment the dental corps of both the army and navy. About half of the Senior class in Pharmacy are now at the Naval Training Station in California.

UNSELFISHNESS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

In a statement by Dr. H. C. Coe, major in the Army Medical Reserve Corps, comment is made regarding the tremendous sacrifices that members of the medical profession are making in joining the service.

Yet the profession are responding nobly to the call to duty and are exemplifying those principles that have always characterized our calling the placing of duty and unselfish service above all else.

"It is a case," states Dr. Coe, "one might say, of earning power dropping from $30,000 a year to $3,000 or under; but it is remarkable how many of the men at the top of the profession all over the country have enlisted in the corps. In many cases they have expensive establishments and usually heavy life-insurance to maintain, and, no matter what professional responsibilities are upon them when the call comes, they stand ready to drop everything, like leaving the plow in the furrow, and go. I do not think one will find anything like it in any other calling. But doctors did the same thing during the Civil War; they are brought up to making sacrifices. I believe it is fair to say that they give one-third of their services to charity, and this is especially true of the chief men in the profession.

"If they could come back to their practice as they left it the case would be different, but that can't be arranged. There is no way to keep a practice together while the man who built it is away. This is notably true of this city. I know of two physicians who were called to the Mexican border with the Guard; they had just begun to rebuild their practice, and now they must go out again.

"It is undoubtedly a great sacrifice for physicians to make, but we are urging them to do so as their duty. The first question asked is, What is to become of my practice?' In some instances the situation is such that we do not feel justified in advising them to volunteer, but the answer we usually make