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Meanwhile Conant determined to reorganize dental education at Harvard. Conant formed a committee chaired by Dean Burwell of the Medical School and told it to bring its recommendations to the Medical Faculty. This immediately drew protest from dentists, who didn't want to be "railroaded by their big brother" and who forgot that the Dental and Medical Faculties had been combined under the Dean of the Medical Faculty...
...University, in addition, was having trouble in getting the funds to support its new idea. The Dental School had planned to carry on a two and a half million dollar campaign itself, but the University asked for the School's list of prospective donors for its own $30,000,000 drive. In return, the Dental School was promised five million. The University campaign failed miserable, and the Dental School got nothing...
...however, the Carnegie Corporation, the Rockfeller Foundation, and the Markle Foundation gave the money required for putting the plan into operation. It was at this same time that Conant announced that the Dental School would operate under a new name, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine...
Canant made the new program official in 1940 and established an administration committee to put it into effect. Once a curriculum and plan of study was draw up--one sheet of paper with four typewritten lines on it--the new school had to gain recognition by the American Dental Association and the Association of American Dental Schools. Arthur M. Maloney D.M.D. '23, associate professor of Clinical Dentistry, went to New York to present the School's application...
...program is an expanded version of the five-year system, but it still drew the challenge of practicing dentists. Instead of giving three and a half years to medicine and one and a half to dentistry, all dental students were to take their first two years of basic study at the Medical school and then switch over to the school of Dental Medicine's own building for two years of clinical dentistry. The student would receive his D.M.D. degree upon the completion of this four-year course. He then had the option of returning to the Medical School...