"We know and we see that in the future the medical profession is to largely develop in the care of health not less than in the curing of disease, and nothing affects it more than the work which the dentist does. Therefore by its own development as well as by the internal development of the medical profession, dentistry is becoming more and more a branch of the great medical profession.
"The buildings which you have designed are so simple, so intelligently planned, so excellent in their lighting, so admirable in their equipment that they are little short of perfect in their entirety. But you speak of it as the Dental School. In a certain sense it is not a School at all, or rather not mainly a School; it is a hospital. The work of teaching dentistry except for the clinic instruction, is done mainly in the building of the Medical School at its side. The work done in the Medical School is mainly the treatment of patients in the hospital, and this is the first of many hospital buildings which we hope to see gathered around the Medical School. And it has been shown by the dentists that they can maintain and control the hospital to the entire satisfaction of their patients and the public.
"It is eminently fitting that these keys should be delivered to your hands (addressing the Dean of the Dental School) for it is by the effort, the earnest faith and the conscientious work of yourself and your colleagues that these buildings have been erected, and it is by your wisdom, sir, that they will be made an ever-increasing source of usefulness to the community."
William W. Fenn '84, A.M., D.D., Dean of the Divinity School, closed the ceremonies with the benediction.
Speakers at Dental School Dinner.
At the dinner given by the Administrative Board of the Dental School at the Hotel Somerset last evening about 165 invited guests were present. Eugene H. Smith '74, D.M.D., Dean of the Dental School, presided and introduced President Lowell who briefly congratulated the alumni of the School on what they had done, saying that it showed great devotion on their part. The University as a whole has the deepest interest in the School and wishes it the greatest success in its new undertaking. The Alumni Chorus of the Dental School was present and rendered several selections throughout the evening. President Eliot was the principal speaker of the occasion; he gave an outline of the early days of dentistry at Harvard and finished by relating several amusing anecdotes concerning Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, who taught in the Medical School for 35 years. The remaining speakers of the evening were Dean Fenn, Dr. G. V. I. Brown, Dr. G. H. Monks '75, Dr. W. H. Potter '78, and Dr. C. A. Brackett '73