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438 HISTORY OF DENTAL SURGERY

Cryer, for many yoars the assistant of Professor Garretson, was chosen adjunct
professor of oral surgery.
In January, 1896, Professor S. H. Guilford was elected dean of the faculty.
In tlie spring of the same year Professors Dorr and Flagg resigned, owing
to ill health. Dr. L. Greeuhaum was thereupon chosen to succeed Professor
Dorr and the cliair changed to tliat of materia medica, anaesthesia and odonto-
techny. Dr. H. H. Burchard was chosen to fill the place of Dr. Flagg and
made special lecturer on dental pathology and therapeutics.
In October, 1896, Dr. Cryer resigned to accept a position in the dental de-
partment of the University of Pennsylvania.
Few changes have occurred in the deanship of the institution. Professor
MeQuillen lield that position from the establishment of the institution until
his death in 1879. He was succeeded l)y Professor Smith, who held the office
for two years. Professor Garretson assumed the otBce in 1881 and retained
it until his death in 1895, after which Professor Guilford was elected to the
position. In 190.5 Dr. Leo Greenbaum was elected assistant dean. In June,
1906, Dr. Guilford resigned the office of dean and Dr. Greenbaum was elected
to that position. In June, 1908, Dr. Greenbaum resigned the office and Dr.
Guilford was re-elected dean.
The college has experienced few changes in the presidency of the board
of trustees. The first incumbent was Rev. Richard Newton, D. D. At his
death he was succeeded by the Hon. James Pollock, LL.D., ex-governor of
Pennsylvania, who retained the office during the remainder of his life. Gen-
eral .lames A. Beaver, LL.D., ex-governor of Pennsylvania, was elected to the
office after the death of Mr. Pollock. The federation with Temple University,
in the spring of 1907, caused a change in the board of trustees and Russell H.
Conwell was elected to the presidency.
At the time of the incorporation of the Philadelphia Dental College there
were but three other dental schools in the country—one in Cincinnati, one in
Baltimore and one in Philadelphia, with a combined attendance of less than
one hundred pupils. Today there are in the United States more than fifty
institutions in which dentistry is taught regularly, with a total yearly attend-
ance of between four and five thousand students.
In the forty-one years of its existence the Philadelphia Dental College has
graduated no less than 3,000 students. Along with other schools it has ad-
vanced from a two years' course of four months each to a three years' course
of eight months, with supplemental spring and fall courses covering two
months more. From an annual curriculum that required hut thirtv-four lee-