New Dental School to be Built

From a source which cannot yet be publicly announced, the Dental School has received promise of the funds necessary for the erection of a new building. The site which has been chosen is the lot at the corner of Longwood avenue and Wigglesworth street, Brookline, adjoining the property on which the buildings of the Medical School now stand. This lot, with a frontage of 80 feet on Longwood avenue and 233 feet on Wigglesworth street, was bought by the Corporation in 1905 for $36,000. It is an excellent situation for the new building, both from its convenient proximity to the Medical School, and because the new hospitals and other institutions which are being or are soon to be, built in that section will contribute to the clinical work of the students of the Dental School.

As the gift of the Dental School is immediately available, the actual work of construction will be begun in the spring as soon as the frost is out of the ground, and will be pushed as fast as possible. The set of plans which was drawn a year ago when the project for the new building was first published, has been abandoned as impracticable, because of a change in the scheme. A new set of plans, now in course of preparation, will be entirely different from the first. Last year at this time the amount available for the building fund was only $60,000, and at that time $500,000 was considered essential for the erection and suitable endowment of the school.

The work of the Dental School has been greatly hampered for some years past by the inadequacy of its location on North Grove street. With the new building the school will have a greater opportunity to carry on the efficient charity work that is being steadily developed. The clinical work of the students among poor people who cannot afford the services of a regular practitioner will be very extensive. The change will result in bringing the Boston departments of the University into a single large plant, with equipment and surroundings better than any other department of the University.