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...furor burst because Conant turned a 73-year-old trend into a revolution and left some 2000 dentists "without heritage." He made the Dental School a satellite of the Medical School, which caused such a storm of protest across the country that the new ste-up wasn't recognized by any dental association for seven years. And to cap it all, at a time when only 34 per cent of the American people are receiving adequate dental care, Conant cut Harvard's yearly dentist output from...
...those involved in the revolution thought Harvard had gone haywire again, and all were most out spoken in saying so. Now, of a random 12 dentists contacted in Boston--seven of them graduates of the defunct Dental School--only one would go on record with his opinion. The rest refused to be quoted by name, not because they were any less opposed to Harvard, but because they were afraid that, from the way things are progressing, they just might be wrong...
...controversy began in July, 1867, when the Corporation approved the establishment of the first university dental school in the United States. It admitted its initial class in 1869 and graduated it in one year. All its members were previously physicians. By 1870 the same Corporation was already making changes. It abolished the custom, then universal among dental schools, of allowing five years of practice without a degree as the equivalent of the first year of study...
...Harvard School was the first, and for many years the only dental school, to maintain and adhere to this principle, but it was not accomplished without disastrous effects upon the school from a pecuniary point of view," an historian wrote...
President Eliot commented in his first annual report that the Dental School was one of the "worst equipped departments in the University," mainly because it could receive no revenue from students whom Harvard policy drove elsewhere. But he was quick to comment...