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HISTORY OF DENTAL SURGERY 423

months each and reputable practitioners of dentistry of five years' experience,
as well as graduates of medicine^, were received into the senior class for
graduation in one year. The system of granting honorary degrees was then
in force in this and other dental schools.
The fees at that time in many of the dental and medical schools were jjlaced
upon a sevent}'-five dollar basis.
In 1881, the college and the profession were called upon to mourn the
death of Dr. James Taylor, who had been its faithful teacher and officer for
so many years. In 1884, the faculty was composed of Professors J. S. Cassidy,
chemistry; H. A. Smith, operative dentistry; C. M. Wright, pliysiology; Wil-
liam Knight, anatomy, and Frank Bell, mechanical dentistry. These men have
occupied the same chairs almost continuously to the present time; Professor
Bell being succeeded by Dr. Grant Molyneaux in 1887. The deanship assumed
by Professor H. A. Smith in 1878, has also continued unchanged to the present
time, the school reaching its period of greatest usefulness and prosperity under
his guidance.
For the session of 1885-G the new rules of the National Association of
Dental Faculties were put in force, eliminating the equivalency of one session
credited to practitioners of five years' experience and requiring all students
to attend two full courses for graduation; crediting, however, graduates of
medicine with one session, as lieretofore, and eliminating also the privilege of
granting honorary degrees.
In 1888 the college became the dental department of the University of
Cincinnati, assuming that name in addition to its old name, and its diplomas
were so inscribed. The college retained its identity in every way and this
condition satisfactorily continued until the session of 1906-7 when the ar-
rangement was dissolved.
In 1901-2 the college recorded its greatest number of matriculates, 266,
the graduates numbering eighty-nine. This was Just previous to the increas-
ing of the entrance requirements by the National Association of Dental Facul-
ties to the completion of the second year of the high school.
In 1894, Dr. H. T. Smith became an officer of the faculty, assuming the
secretaryship, which position he continues to hold at the present time. He
took tlie adjunct professorship of operative dentistry the following year and
the professorship of clinical dentistry in 1898, this being the first change in
the faculty in nearly fifteen years.
In 1899, the name of Dr. T. I. Way was added to the list of instructors
and, in 1906, Dr. F. Burger was made adjunct professor of prosthetic dentistry
succeeding Professor Molvneaux in that cliair the following vear.