The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-02
TO START AT ONCE
Washburn Dental School Will
Be Established.
Students Registered for This
Years Work.
DIR. THOMPSON, DEAN.
Well Known Local Authority
the Probable Head.
Two Years of Work Same as I'm
Medical School.

Within a few days announcement is
expected from the trustees of Washburn
college of the establishment of a dental
school. 1t can be stated at this time
that it has been practically decided to
offer to prospective dental students the
first years work in dentistry with the
opening of school this fall, and to estab
lish the full four years course one year
from that time.
At the meeting of the executive
board on Tuesday, DR.. Norman Plass,
president of the college. and L. H.
Greenwood, trustee, were appointed as
subcommittee to present the situa-
ton to the dentists of the city, and as
certain whether it meets with their APP
proval to offer the first years dental
course at once, and add the rest of the
course in 1905. No opposition to the
plan is expected, as most of the den
lists of the city have pledged their as
sistance to the proposed school.
Already the college has received from
fifteen or twenty young people asSur-
ances that they are DESTROYS of taking a
dental course here, and as soon as the
trustees announce that the course is
opened, the new department of the col
lege is insured quite respectable sized
enrolment.
To offer the first years work in dem
tistry requires no immediate prepare
ton on the part of the college, as the
the first year of the medical course.
The candidates for the D. D. S. degree
would simply go into the medical col
lege and take the regular course there
prescribed for the first year. Next
summer the college will purchase the
necessary equipment for a complete
dental course, and with the opening of
the fall term will offer a complete
course in dentistry.
One of the trustees of the college
said today: THE point which we are
to decide is really not whether we
shall offer the first years work in
dentistry this fall, but whether we
course in 1905. The students who
have signified a desire to take dem
tai course here do not want to start in
unless they have assurance that they
can continue their course here The
question which we have to decide is
whether we can afford to purchase
equipment for dental school, and
provide for it's maintenance"
The equipment for a dental school
consists in a number of operating and
lecture rooms. Chairs, cabinets and
instruments must be provided for the
use of the students. In short, large
of complete dental offices
The dentists of Topeka will act as
the instructors in the proposed
school 1t is thought that DR.: A. H:
may be chosen for dean of
alton of this has been given out DR.. |
has had extensive expert |
ence as professor and lecturer in den |
tai schools, and is one of those active |
ly interested in the establishment of |
dental department for Washburn COL |
lege. There are about twenty-five |
dentists practicing in Topeka, from
whom WashburnS new department.
would draw its material for the teach
ing corps.
There is sort of a dental college |
rust existing throughout the country
10 which every reputable dental school
IS supposed to belong This organiza-
lion goes under the name of a society,
md it is supposed to protect the ethics
IF the profession. Among other things
which it requires is that all institutions
which hold allegiance to II shaH not
,harge less than 500 a year tuition.
All recognized dental schools maintain
his rate. The course of study in the
schools which are members of tins so
,iety must come up to certain nlgh
standards. Formerly the complete DEN
al course required only two years of
study. Now it takes four. The dental
society has come to the conclusion that
he first two years or the student
course should be devoted to general
medical study The dental student is
obliged to take practically the same
work in the first two years of his course
nat the medical student takes; II rs
,nly after the second year that ne gets
nto the strictly dental subjects.
There seems to be splendid field for
/ dental school here in Topeka. Hun
lreds of Kansas young men ana Wo-
nen have been obliged to go to Kan
as City, Chicago or the east for the
purpose of taking dentistry, simply be-
ause there is no dental school IN Kan
as Even the state university does not
,ffer any dental course. 1t is expected
hat within a few years the dental
chool here will have an attendance OF
upwards of 100 students.