Page 487 - My FlipBook

HISTOKY OF DENTAL SUEGEEY 445

The session closed March 18, 1867, with nine graduates—who were eligible,
under a provision of the year of eight years' practice, to take the graduation
examinations and degree.
The annual election of professors in 1867 and 1868 effected professorial
changes as follows: William H. Dwinnelle, M. D., D. D. S., Profes-
sor of Dental Histology, 1867 to 1868; Edwin J. Dunning, D. D. S., Professor
of Operative Dentistry, 1867-68 ; P. H. Van Der Weyde, M. D., Professor of
Chemistry and Metallurgy, 1867-69 ; Samuel E. Percy, M. D., Professor of
Dental Pathology and Therapeutics, 1868-69 ; Alexander W. Stein, M. D., Pro-
fessor of Ph3'siology and Microscopic Anatomy, 1868-69 ; Dr. Frank Abbott,
Professor of Operative Dentistry, 1868-69.
On April 13, 1869, tlie board of trustees and directors elected the officers
of the board and the faculty for 1869-70; Dr. Stephen A. Main as president
of the board : and as members of the faculty, Faneuil D. Weisse, M. D., Dr.
Frank Abbott, M. D., Alexander W. Stein, M. D., and F. LeEoy Satterlee,
M. D.—Dr. Norman AV. Kingsley, who had acted as dean up to this time, was
not re-elected.
It developed at this time that some party or parties had deposited bonds with
the Attorney General of the State of New York, in order that an action should
be commenced by the Attorney General, in the name of the people of the State of
New York against the New York College of Dentistry, "demanding from the
Supreme Court a judgment declaring the charter of the college vacated and an-
nulled, because of violations of charter and that a receiver be appointed of all
the chattels, goods and property of the defendant, and that an injunction be
issued from the court restraining and enjoining the defendants, their agents and
officers from managing or conducting said college under the Act of the Legisla-
ture, or from doing any business connected with said college or otherwise, be-
sides costs of action."
The deposit of bonds with the Attorney General rendered it obligatoi-y upon
him to commence an action against the college, thereby imposing upon the col-
lege authorities to defend the case. The papers in this action were served upon
the board of trustees and directors at their meeting of April 13, 1869, requiring
the board to show cause why an injunction should not issue. On Friday, April
16, 1869, the Attorney General of the State appeared by counsel, appointed by
him in New York city, and the college was represented by her counsel, Mr. Mc-
Namara Walsh, before Judge Cardozo, after which Judge Cardozo took the
papers in the case to give his decision later.
Pending the decision of Judge Cardozo the conduct of tlie college was at a