NEW CHAIR COMMEMORATES VETERAN TEACHER'S WORK

The University announced yesterday that the Charles A. Brackett Professorship of Oral Pathology, an endowed chair to commemorate the half century of service which Dr. Brackett completes at the Dental School this year, has been established at the Harvard Dental School.

In the Alumni Bulletin, Issued yesterday, there appeared a reproduction of a painting of Dr. Brackett, made by Alfred E. Smith, the prominent Boston artist, which is shortly to have a permanent place in the balls of the Dental School.

There also appears in the same issue two appreciations of the work that Dr. Brackett did during his long term of service, one by President Eliot and the other by President Lowell.

President Eliot, after mentioning Dr. Brackett's service as characterized "by perfect disinterestedness, skill in teaching and a strong influence for good on all his colleagues and all his students", and after noting his contribution to the standing of his profession and to the idea that preventive dentistry is an essential part of preventive medicine, ends his letter thus:

"A permanent endowment at the Dental School to bear his name will give to coming generations an invaluable lesson on the immortal worth of character, gentle manners, unselfishness, and public spirit."

President Lowell's opinion is ex-letter to Dean L. M. S. Miner of the Dental School as follows:

Has Helped to Build Profession

"There is no more worthy way to honor a professor than by perpetuating his work by endowing the chair that he has held. Dr. Brackett has given to the Dental School the almost unparalleled length of service of fifty years. During many years he has received little or no remuneration, and yet himself subscribed liberally to the building fund when the new school was built. He has seen in his lifetime dentistry develop from something mainly an art into an important branch of the medical profession--a result to which his own labors have contributed. It is to be earnestly hoped that he may be commemorated by an endowment of a chair that will bear his name."

Dr. Brackett was born in New Hampshire and brought up on a farm. After studying and teaching in the local district schools he entered the Harvard Dental School in 1871. In 1874 he was appointed instructor and then advanced step by step to assistant professor, professor of dental therapeutics, professor of dental pathology, and finally to professor of oral pathology.