The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-18
New Orleans Dental CoIiege-Seeond Annual
Commencement.

In the parlors OF the residence of DR..
Kells, No. IA Dsuphine street. last even
ing, gathered together a goodly assembage
of ladies' and gentlemen in response TO the an.
nouncement that at that time and place would
take place the second annual exercises Of the New
Orleans Dental College. There were present as
members Of the graduating class, Drs. j. Wilbur
Angel Of Texas. Joseph Bauer, Ernest j. Bien-
venu, Geo. II. Carpenter, Alonzo A. Dilehay,
Paul HUmbert of Louisiana, and Peter l.. Ulmer,
Of Alabama.
To these gentlemen. after an opening prayer BY
the Rev. j. G. Carpenter, diplomas were distribuI
ed by DR.. Jas. 5. Knapp, dean Of the college. who
also awarded diplomas to Drs Jno. r. Walker and
Jas. West, both of Louisiana, gentlemen not mem.
bers Of the grsduting class, yet qualified by expe-
rience and skill. DR.. Knapp then addressed the
sssemblage in the following valedictory on the
part of the Faculty:
Upon you, gentlemen. who have conformed to
the requirements for graduation, it affords me
great pleasure now, in the name and on behalf of
the Faculty which represent, to confer the hon.
ors of this Institution.
"Tbe recipients of like degrees often conceive
the mistaken idea that after the attainment OF this
honor there is further necessity for future im-
provement.
alt is to be hoped that you have attended too
well TO the Instructions you have received to be
Influenced by any such consideration, and that the
beginning OF the actual duties of your profession
is but the continuation Of dental theory applied to
practice.
LIE ClptOIndb you lDls Oay receive Iully auLlCr-
iZe you 10 perform in a legitimate way all the du-
ties that belong to those of your profession, and
entitle each Of you to the enjoyment of all the
rights and privileges o. a Doctor Of Dental Sur
gerry,
best advantage in Their power for learning the
theory and principles of the dental art, as well as
Its practical duties-the first by lectures and the
second by clinics in the Free Dental Dispensary,
and by mechanical operations in the laboratory.
and also illustrating their instructions from actual
practice in their respective offices aud labors-
tories.
Thus we have given You every advantage for
becoming an ornament to the profession you have
chosen so far as dental instruction IL concerned
But in order to elevate the members of the
dental calling 70 that social equality among the
learned professions, which as a comparatively new
science il is struggling TO attain, something more
is needed than educated minds and skillful hands.
"A dentist should be a temperate man, because
he requires the steadiness OF nerve to perform
those delicate operations on the sensitive tissues
of the live subject, which the inebTate's trembling
hand is entirely unable to accomplish.
He should be, par excellence a moral man.
II, as the common adage has it, opportunity leads
TO suspicion, and suspicion to accusation, fortu.
nate is the man whose uniform rectitude of con.
DUCTS such that no whisper of SANDER dare reach
him.
II am happy to know that the relations exist
ing between students and professors in the institu
ton, the honors of which you have just received,
have been of an agreeable kind and on behalf of
the faculty / here extend TO you kind welcome
among them, as members of the same profession
and interested alike in its pursuits.
81 am, with them, pleased to offer hearty con.
gratulations, and express our best wishes for
your success, and your future welfare and hap
pnkss.
Wherever you may go, or whatever fame you
may win for yourselves we shall consider il will
be reflected upon US, your teachers, who have
endeavOred TO awaken in you desire for profess
9 onal worth andr snown.,
: DR.. j. Wilbur Angel yaledictorian, on behalf
of the graduating class, then addressed the audi
ence in brief but eloquent address. the publlca-
ton Of which, we regret to state. the crowded
condition of our columns this morning compes us
to defer, with, however, the hope Of producing il
shortly.
The exercises then concluded, the guests de-
parting thoroughly convinced that the Dental Col
lege is live and thriving institution, and credit
to our city and State. Located temporarily in the
building Of the New Orleans School of Medicine,
Oh Common street, opposite the Charity Hospital,
it has for its faculty the following professors;
Geo. W. DrmeyeT, III. D., emeritus professor of
msteria medica a8d therapeutics.
Jas. S. Knapp, d. d. s., professor of theory and
practice.
Andrew F. McLain, D. d. s., NJ. D., professor
of institutes of dentistry.
Svsai- y cl--sass, ~ u. D, professor and de-
monstrator Of deHtal surgery.
Chas. E. Kells, d. ID. S., professor of the
science of dental mechanism.
S. Minton Angell professor of anatomy and
physiology.
Henry Laurence, D. D. s., demonstrator of me-
chanica dentistry.
j. G. Angel, d. D. s., adjunct professor of OPP
erative dental surgery.