Every practitioner should attend associations, and these associations should be enlivened by clinics. All should take part, and the younger members especially. We need a dental law in Ohio, and the time has come to do something. It should be made unlawful to extract teeth which can be saved. The dental profession does not investigate, read and study enough. A post-graduate course would be a good thing for all.
DISCUSSION OF PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS.
Dr. H. A. Smith:—Drs. Harris and Taylor were the first to inaugurate dental schools. Classical education will in time be one of the requisites for admission to dental colleges. The three years' course is the cause of so many students this year.
Dr. M. H. Fletcher:—Careful observers produce the best dental literature.
Dr. G. H. Wilson:—Our colleges are coming to require better previous education. A special course for digital culture would be a good thing. Our excellence in the latter accounts for our supremacy over German dentists. They are all brains.
Dr. J. Taft:—Schools for instruction in the different branches, and graded schools would be a good thing. The class of students to-day is better than five or ten years ago.
Dr. C. R. Butler:—The demand of to-day is for better students and better dentistry.
Dr. D. R. Jennings:—The trouble with office pupilage is that the student is only taught how to master the broom, coal scuttle, dirty flasks, &c.
Dr. J. Taft:—A student should be a man of good breeding. It has been urged that he should be examined by an oculist before commencing.
Dr. F. Sage:—Young members should take part in societies; arrangements should be made some time before, subjects assigned and persons appointed to open the discussion of the same. Dental students need habits of study, so they can grasp everything taught at the college. Dental teaching is more to be remembered than almost any other—not any should be lost.