t Homeopathic Hospital was erected opposite the northeast
corner of the Campus. To this a nurses' home was added later, and in
1918 an adequate children's ward. An effort made in 1893 by Dr. H.L.
Obetz, Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College, '74, at that time Dean,
to amalgamate the two schools proved unsuccessful, and eventually led to
his resignation and a reorganization that necessitated the resignation
of the remainder of the Faculty. A law passed in the same year by the
Legislature reversing its previous position and directing that the
School be removed to Detroit, was successfully resisted by the Regents
on the same ground that had already been urged in the case of the
regular school. Dr. E.C. Franklin, M.D., University of New York, '46,
followed Dr. Jones as Dean in 1878. Dr. T.P. Wilson, Western Homeopathic
College, '57, succeeded him in 1881 and Dr. H.L. Obetz in 1885. After
the reorganization in 1895 mentioned above, Dr. Wilbert B. Hinsdale,
Hiram College, '75, the present Dean, was appointed, and the later and
more untroubled history of the School may be said to date from that
time.

[Illustration: THE DENTAL BUILDING]

[Illustration: THE HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL AND CHILDREN'S WARD]

Though the incorporation of a Dental College in the University was
suggested as far back as 1865, the first steps were not taken until 1873
when the Michigan State Dental Association requested the establishment
of a dental course as soon as possible. This was supplemented two years
later by a similar petition to the Legislature on the part of a large
number of citizens of the State, which led to the appropriation of the
sum of $3,000 for each of the next two years for the establishment of a
Department of Dentistry in the University. The Regents thereupon took
action in 1875, establishing the College, and in addition to the
facilities offered by the Medical Department and Chemical Laboratory,
created two Professorships in Dentistry. A little later Dr. Jonathan
Taft, Ohio College of Dental Surgery, '50, of Cincinnati, was appointed
Professor of Principles and Practice of Operative Dentistry and Dr. John
A. Watling, Ohio College of Dental Surgery, '60, Professor of Clinical
and Mechanical Dentistry. The precedent of long standing in the other
professional departments was followed, both in the matter of entrance
requirements and the course, which consisted for many years of two terms
of six months. This was lengthened, however, in 18