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...following the example of many other dental schools and making its degree easy of acquisition, the School could undoubtedly be made to succeed as a commercial venture; but it is no object to the profession or the community that another school of low grade should be maintained, since there are more than enough of that kind already; and Harvard University may properly refuse to carry on such a school...
Thus Harvard Dental began early in bucking tradition, making changes, and adhering to them despite all odds. The controversy, in fact, which arose over the 1940-41 changes over, dates back to Eliot's report of 1873-74. He mentioned at that early date "a division of opinion in the dental profession as to the expedience of having a separate degree for dentists, some persons maintaining that every dentist should be, like an oculist or acurist, a doctor of medicine...
...with a speciality, and that nothing short of the full course for the degree of Doctor of Medicine can be satisfactory; others say that a dentist is simply a fine craftsman, and that there is little use of any training except that of the eye and hand. The Harvard Dental School occupies an intermediate position, which satisfies neither of these extreme parties...
...same report Eliot noted, "The very instruction which the Dental Faculty now provides might be given under the direction of the Medical Faculty, and the degree of D.M.D. still be conferred upon conditions very similar to those which now obtain." In 1899, the Dental Faculty became part of the Medical Faculty...
...School continued on an even keel for 30 years, still leading the field in making changes, but making no change so radical that it was not soon followed by other institutions. In 1917, Harvard boosted to four years the course for the Doctor of Dental Medicine Degree, and in 1925 the Dental School established two years of college study as a prerequisite for admission...