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HISTOEY OF DENTAL SURGEEY 431 ;
introduced when at a meeting of the governing board the following resolu-
tion was adopted
Resolved, That the advancing spirit of the age and the just right of women re-
quire that they shall be admitted to medical and dental education, and that the
faculty of this college be requested to admit women as matriculants to the college at as
early a period as they may deem advisable.
In the session of 1878-3, several women entered. Their presence was ob-
jected to by other members of the class, and it was suggested that they be ex-
cluded from future classes. The board, after a careful hearing, referred the
question to a committee. This committee reported March 31, 1873, that the
act of matriculation was a contract between the school and the student, that
while the student was under no obligation to attend a second years' course,
the faculty must permit him to do so as long as he pays the fees and conducts
himself properly : that the charter of the school does not prohibit the en-
trance of women ; that while the faculty had the right to matriculate or to
refuse to matriculate whom they chose, but having once matriculated a student
and accepted the customary fees, it was obliged to receive this student for the
completion of his course and to graduate him if otherwise found qualified.
A supplemental spring course was commenced in April, 1873, and con-
tinued until the last of June. Each member of the faculty delivered one lec-
ture each week and the clinics were open during the session. Clinical lectures
by men who had developed especial skill in some particular field and who were
willing to give the students the benefit of their demonstrations, were intro-
duced. Drs. A. L. Northrup, of New York City ; C. A. Marvin, of Brooklyn
C. Palmer, of Ohio ; E. T. Darby, Robert Huey and William H. Trueman, of
Philadelphia, were appointed with this end in view.
In 1876, Professor Wildman died and Professor Truman resigned. Drs.
Charles J. Essig and Edwin T. Darby were their successors.
The matriculates for 1877-8 numbered 157. In this year the University
of Pennsylvania, having decided to establish a department of dentistry, ap-
proached the college with a proposition for its transfer to the University. To
carry out the scheme the unanimous vote of the faculty was needed, but as the
question was only carried by a two-thirds vote of the faculty, the matter fell
through. Near the end of the session, Professor Barker died. His chair re-
mained vacant and his subjects were covered by other chairs.
At the close of the sessions of 1877-78, Drs. Essig, Tyson, and Darby re-
signed to accept positions in the projected dental department of the University
of Pennsvlvania. The faculty was then reorganized and Drs. C. N. Peirce,
HISTOEY OF DENTAL SURGEEY 431 ;
introduced when at a meeting of the governing board the following resolu-
tion was adopted
Resolved, That the advancing spirit of the age and the just right of women re-
quire that they shall be admitted to medical and dental education, and that the
faculty of this college be requested to admit women as matriculants to the college at as
early a period as they may deem advisable.
In the session of 1878-3, several women entered. Their presence was ob-
jected to by other members of the class, and it was suggested that they be ex-
cluded from future classes. The board, after a careful hearing, referred the
question to a committee. This committee reported March 31, 1873, that the
act of matriculation was a contract between the school and the student, that
while the student was under no obligation to attend a second years' course,
the faculty must permit him to do so as long as he pays the fees and conducts
himself properly : that the charter of the school does not prohibit the en-
trance of women ; that while the faculty had the right to matriculate or to
refuse to matriculate whom they chose, but having once matriculated a student
and accepted the customary fees, it was obliged to receive this student for the
completion of his course and to graduate him if otherwise found qualified.
A supplemental spring course was commenced in April, 1873, and con-
tinued until the last of June. Each member of the faculty delivered one lec-
ture each week and the clinics were open during the session. Clinical lectures
by men who had developed especial skill in some particular field and who were
willing to give the students the benefit of their demonstrations, were intro-
duced. Drs. A. L. Northrup, of New York City ; C. A. Marvin, of Brooklyn
C. Palmer, of Ohio ; E. T. Darby, Robert Huey and William H. Trueman, of
Philadelphia, were appointed with this end in view.
In 1876, Professor Wildman died and Professor Truman resigned. Drs.
Charles J. Essig and Edwin T. Darby were their successors.
The matriculates for 1877-8 numbered 157. In this year the University
of Pennsylvania, having decided to establish a department of dentistry, ap-
proached the college with a proposition for its transfer to the University. To
carry out the scheme the unanimous vote of the faculty was needed, but as the
question was only carried by a two-thirds vote of the faculty, the matter fell
through. Near the end of the session, Professor Barker died. His chair re-
mained vacant and his subjects were covered by other chairs.
At the close of the sessions of 1877-78, Drs. Essig, Tyson, and Darby re-
signed to accept positions in the projected dental department of the University
of Pennsvlvania. The faculty was then reorganized and Drs. C. N. Peirce,
