INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF
DENTISTRY (IUSD) TIMELINE *
INDIANA DENTAL COLLEGE (IDC) 1880 - 1925
1890 - 1899
|
Year |
Event(s)
|
|
1890 |
Members of the graduating class and resident
graduates form the Indiana Dental College Alumni Association.
|
| 1891 |
Board
of Trustees is authorized to appoint faculty or delegate authority
to Executive Council.
|
|
Members of the IDC Board of Trustees will now be elected - instead of being composed of
officers of the board
|
| 1892 |
Applicants
to the school who do not possess a high school diploma must pass an
entrance examination.
|
|
In
order to graduate, students must have attended three full winter courses of
lectures and must have prepared a specimen case.
|
| 1893 |
Only three people graduate due to the change to a three-year course
|
|
Dr.
Harry Corken is the school's first post-graduate student.
|
|
| 1894 |
Board
of Trustees buys property from Dr. Henry Jameson at the southwest corner of Delaware
and Ohio streets and enters
into a contract for construction of a building at that location.
|
| 1895 |
Dr.
P.G.C. Hunt resigns as president of State Board of Dental Examiners due to
ruling by the National Association of Dental Examiners that a member of
the state board should not be a faculty member. He was elected president of the Board of Trustees of the IDC
|
| 1896 |
Roster
of Xi Psi Phi Fraternity members appears in Bulletin
|
|
A federation of four different
institutions establishes the University of Indianapolis. Members include Butler College, Indiana Medical College,
Indiana Dental College and Indiana Law School. The last mention of its
existence appeared in the 1935-36 Indiana Law School Bulletin.
|
Dr. P.G.C. Hunt dies.
|
|
|
1897
|
Dr.
John Hurty begins promoting a dental health program for children.
|
|
|
The Central
College of Dentistry is established through efforts of Drs. Cravens, Ault,
Hamilton and a few physicians from the Central College of Physicians and
Surgeons (Not affiliated with the Indiana Dental College).
|
|
|
| 1898 |
Dr. George E. Hunt establishes Indiana Dental Journal, Nov. 1898, Vol. 1 which
ceases publication after Vol. 3
|
1899
|
Board
of Trustees vote that same person should hold positions of Board Secretary
and Dean of the Faculty
|
Dr.
G. E. Hunt is Dean of the
Indiana Dental College.
|
|
|
|
A new Indiana law requires all applicants for dental licensing to pass an
examination.
|
*
Information gathered from Indiana
University School of Dentistry Alumni Bulletin, v. 10 no. 4, Spring 1996
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