Novel Method in Conferring Degrees.
PubMed · 1904
NOVEL METHOD IN CONFERRING DEGREES.The traffic in diplomas has evidently started in a new section of country, if the following quotations indicate that which is im plied by the text.It has been rumored for some time that a college in Toronto, Dominion of Canada, would accept legally registered practitioners from any part of the British Colonial possessions and upon an examination confer the degree of Doctor of Dental Sur gery (D.D.S.).This, taken at its face value, would seem a harm less proceeding, but when analyzed it assumes special importance and worthy the attention of all interested in keeping the degree in dentistry fully up to the standard established by the National Asso ciation of Dental Faculties.The following is taken from the published announcement of the " Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario " Students of Dentistry not desiring to qualify for practice in the province of Ontario, by obtaining the L.D.S. of the R.C.D.S. of Ontario, may avail themselves of all the privileges of the school of dentistry of the R.C.D.S. and proceed to the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery, either in the University of Toronto, or in Trinity University, on compliance with the requirements of their curricu lum in dentistry."The requirement in the announcement of Trinity University, Toronto, is as follows: " All legally qualified practitioners of Dental Surgery of Great Britain, or of any portion of the British empire, will be admitted to the final examination without passing further matriculation and without further attendance on lectures.Fee for