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...less than one quarter of the Dental School was made up of college graduates. In 1936 half of its students has their Bachelor of Arts degree, and although the last two year man was admitted in 1950, today only 75 per cent of the student body is made up of college graduates. The newness of the concept of dental study on the graduate plan thus becomes apparent...
Furthermore, the Dental School faculty served gratis until 1929. A bequest of Charles A. Brackett D.M.D. '73, who taught without pay at the School for half a century, and a gift of John T. Morse, Jr. '60 led to the endowment fund which began to pay the institution's teachers in that year. Serious dental study is plainly, then, a recent development, but the field's trend, as shown by Eliot's words and climaxed by Conant's action, is no sudden offshoot. It grew with dentistry...
...Because the teeth are part of the body and exposed to the traumas, the disorders of growth, the intoxications, the infections, the dietary deficiencies, and all the other influences that cause disease of other parts of the body, the study, understanding, and management of dental and oral disease require a biologic and medical preparation not inferior to, and indeed not essentially different from, the preparation required for the study, understanding and management of disease of other parts of the body...
Yale did accept a plan, however, which the Rockfeller Foundation sponsored, to invite two outstanding young dental teachers to take their M.D. at New Haven. Dr. David Weisberger D.M.D. '30 of the Harvard Dental School staff was selected for the program and emerged from it "more informed, grateful, but much older." He had to take the full fouryear course for his M.D. although he had taken courses in the first and second-year subjects when he attended Harvard Dental. The difference was that at the Dental School, the courses had the same names but only half the material...
...There is a great deal of difference between a similar course and an identical course," Weisberger says. "The pay-off is, can you get credit for it? I came to Harvard Dental because of the great names listed in the catalogue as teaching the basic science courses. But I never saw the great names as people. I saw the tenth assistant. And I was never given the same course as the fellow over at the Medical School...