The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-07
GRADUATION OF DENTAL STUDENTS.
Ready for Business with the Sanction of Their
College-Address of Professor Coulter.

A bright and cheerful audience, in which
many fans tiuttered and ribbons waved,
greeted the graduating class of the Indiana
Dental College, at Y. M. c. A. Hall, last
evening. In addition to the seventeen
young gentlemen on whom degrees were to
be conferred, there were thirty-two on the
stage entitled to certificates of seniority.
and with the faculty and invited guests
who sat upon the platform, the array was
an imposing one. 1t would be impossible
for an audience, in the presence of SO many
dentists, to avoid showing its
teeth, and consequently everybody
smiled approvingly on the programme.
The first number was an overture by
Zumpfe's Orchestra, and Rev. John billiard
Ranger followed with an invocation, in
which he prayed for the blessings of Prov
idence ON the college and its graduates.
DR.. John Chambers. who was to have de-
livered the address on the school, was pre-
vented from attending, and Prof. j. +.
Cravens, who presided, took DR.. Chambers's
place, and gave some interesting statistics
connected with the institution. The college
began in the fall of 1879, with six students.
At this, its tenth, commencement it had
fifty-One matriculants, representing several
of the Western and Southern States and
the Dominion of Canada. AS showing how
that -twenty-four of its students
were Indianians. Its financial condi,
ton was satisfactory. and 1T had
been able to be of much service to this COM
munity in furnishing gratuitous work to
persons unable to pay dental bills, while,
at the same time, furnishing practical ex-
perience to its undergraduates.
After Professor Cravens's address there
was more music by the orchestra, and Pres
ident w. L. Heiskell, with a few explana-
following graduates: Willard w. Gates,
Indianapolis; NJ. f. Ault, Kokomo; Harry
w. Cole, Washington Waldo +: Callane,
Flora; Peter S. Bower, Indianapolis; Ward
Fort Wayne; John G. Walker. Emporia,
Kan; Charles S. Hardy, Ash Grove, Ont;
Frederick H.. Reiss, Shelbyville, Ill; BiOn
Moss, Milwaukee, Wis; Charles K. Raber,
Wis; Sidney w. Curtis, Ravenwood.. w.
Va; George b. Martin, Lansing, Mich;
Robert /. Brakeman. Columbia, KY; Moses
p. Niswonger, Arcanum. o.
The address to the class was delivered by
Prof. Coulter, of Wabash College, and the
manner of its delivery was as acceptable as
the matter 1T contained.
He began with a reference to the differ
ences of strictly technical schools and so
called UNCONVENTIONAL colleges, and argued
that as truth is universal and never denom
national a man fit to teach q subject
teaches it with the same freedom and sue
cess in q UNCONVENTIONAL college as any
where in the world. A college is a broader
thing than any sect or system of belief.
Its work depends solely on the men who
teach. 1t smacks of the dark ages of narrow
prejudice to ask of a college under what
control it is working. The paramount
question to day is, who are it's menf Choose
your men and you will discover no differ
ence as to methods, as to beliefs, as to re-
suits from the accident OF. their environ
ment. He did not speak of the colleges of q
survive, half awake, half dazed, waiting
for the mountain to come to Mahomet, but
of those of to-day, fully awake and fully
alive to the demands of a marvelously
progressive age; Any argument there
college being UNCONVENTIONAL, and
thus a college of narrowness and prejudice
falls to the ground. An argument based
upon faculties is extremely pertinent, and
that will be reduced in the long run to-
question of money. The general rule will
always remain that the college controlling
the largest income, independent of Sec
tartan or non-sectarian control, will possess
the best teachers, and that will always
mean the best opportunities. With this
introduction Prof. Coulter proceeded to de-
liver an admirable address on the "Evolu-
ton of the Tooth in the Animal Kingdom
Prof. Coulter's conclusion was an inter-
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science, and an earnest appeal TO the grad
uating class to use the opportunities fur
nished by their vocation in the pursuit of
"a philosophy which ~glorifies drudgery and
which converts a day laborer. an ephemeral
benefactOr, into an interpreter of science, q
contributor to eternal truth
Following this address Prof. inc. n. Hurry
delivered certificates Of seniority, attest
ing that the recipients had mastered the
rudiments of dentistry, to the following
members of the junior class: Will l..
Tevls, Edward q. Fry. n. F. Hazlett, John
H. Hess, Albert II. Brown, Harry b. Tucker.
Robert b. Gentle. Thomas f.. Coffin, Morris
Coffin, Ellard ID. Baily. G.. Elmer Erwin,
Wallace Mungen, George W. Thompson.
Frank B. Gonzales, Roscoe w. Rees, In
diana; Burton w. Jones, Michigan; James
Z. Nichols, Charles +. Schober, William j.
Champion, Byron Brimmacomb. Canada;
William |. Jones. Charles A, Rowand, Ohio;
Edward r.. Trippe, William A. Pagels, Wis
%consin; Thomas 7: Baker. Burt w. Sober.
Illinois; Everett H.. Green. Leon A. Cox.
Minnesota.
The presentation of these certificates