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The Dental Students’ Register for 1941
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T h e J o u r n a l o f t h e A m e r ic a n D e n t a l A s s o c ia t io n
THE DENTAL STUDENTS5 REGISTER FOR 1941 Dental Students’ Register for 1941, prepared by the Council on Dental Education, which we reproduce in this issue of T h e J o u r n a l , presents some especially interesting and significant figures. The total number of graduates from the thirty-nine dental schools in the United States for the year ending June 30, 1941 was 1,568. This was the small est class with three exceptions since 1896, when there were 1,432 grad uates. The three exceptions were 1906 with 1,519 graduates, 1920 with 906 graduates, and 1930 with 1,561. The decline in total enrollment which led to this small graduating class began with the depression in 1929 and was accelerated by the widespread adoption of the 2-4 plan about 1935. W e have often ob served that advanced entrance requirements, or even the lengthening of the period of professional study, do not long deter ambitious Ameri can youth. We are not surprised, therefore, to discover from the Register that the curve of enrollment started upward three years ago. The present statistics reveal this situation: with the smallest graduating class in June, 1941 in twelve years, the total enrollment on October 15, 1941 was 8,355, the largest in fifteen years. The increase in October, 1941 over October, 1940 was 635 distributed as follows: 171 Freshmen; 99 Sophomores ; 133 Juniors ; 232 Seniors. Marked advance is also shown in the entrance credentials which stu dents now offer. The entering class last fall numbered 2,476. They offered pre-dental training as follows: 2 years of liberal arts, 1,162; three years, 526 ; four years without a degree, 140 ; a bachelor’s degree, 626 ; other degrees, 22. What effect the accelerated schedules, which we understand the majority of the dental schools will now undertake, will have upon enrollment and upon the content and quality of pre-dental training can hardly be foreseen. The Council on Dental Education is wisely urging that every effort should be exerted to preserve in the emer gency the high standards of pre-dental and professional training already attained. T
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DENTAL PREPAREDNESS I n the present issue at page 466 we are publishing an official release from the Committee on Information of the Procurement and Assign-
T h e J o u r n a l o f t h e A m e r ic a n D e n t a l A s s o c ia t io n
THE DENTAL STUDENTS5 REGISTER FOR 1941 Dental Students’ Register for 1941, prepared by the Council on Dental Education, which we reproduce in this issue of T h e J o u r n a l , presents some especially interesting and significant figures. The total number of graduates from the thirty-nine dental schools in the United States for the year ending June 30, 1941 was 1,568. This was the small est class with three exceptions since 1896, when there were 1,432 grad uates. The three exceptions were 1906 with 1,519 graduates, 1920 with 906 graduates, and 1930 with 1,561. The decline in total enrollment which led to this small graduating class began with the depression in 1929 and was accelerated by the widespread adoption of the 2-4 plan about 1935. W e have often ob served that advanced entrance requirements, or even the lengthening of the period of professional study, do not long deter ambitious Ameri can youth. We are not surprised, therefore, to discover from the Register that the curve of enrollment started upward three years ago. The present statistics reveal this situation: with the smallest graduating class in June, 1941 in twelve years, the total enrollment on October 15, 1941 was 8,355, the largest in fifteen years. The increase in October, 1941 over October, 1940 was 635 distributed as follows: 171 Freshmen; 99 Sophomores ; 133 Juniors ; 232 Seniors. Marked advance is also shown in the entrance credentials which stu dents now offer. The entering class last fall numbered 2,476. They offered pre-dental training as follows: 2 years of liberal arts, 1,162; three years, 526 ; four years without a degree, 140 ; a bachelor’s degree, 626 ; other degrees, 22. What effect the accelerated schedules, which we understand the majority of the dental schools will now undertake, will have upon enrollment and upon the content and quality of pre-dental training can hardly be foreseen. The Council on Dental Education is wisely urging that every effort should be exerted to preserve in the emer gency the high standards of pre-dental and professional training already attained. T
h e
DENTAL PREPAREDNESS I n the present issue at page 466 we are publishing an official release from the Committee on Information of the Procurement and Assign-