84 to nine months and
in 1899 a third year was added.

The Dental College first occupied a portion of the Homeopathic Building
on the north side of the Campus; later it was removed to one of the old
professors' houses on the south side which had been enlarged and fitted
up for its reception. Upon the removal of the University Hospital from
the Campus in 1891, the building it had occupied, which it may be
remembered was an adaptation and extension of one of the residences on
the north, became the home of the school. Never well adapted for this
purpose and becoming entirely too small with the rapid growth of the
College, a new building eventually became necessary. This led to the
construction of the present Dental Building, one of the most completely
equipped structures for the purpose in the United States. It was
dedicated in May, 1909, and cost, with equipment, over $150,000. The
department has grown consistently from the first year, when the
attendance was twenty students, the lowest in its history, to 353 in
1915-16. Dr. Taft was Dean of the College from 1875 to the time of his
death in 1903. Dr. Cyrenus Darling, '81_m_, of the Medical School then
became Acting Dean, resigning active work four years later to be
succeeded by Dr. Nelville S. Hoff, Ohio College of Dental Surgery, '76,
Professor of Prosthetic Dentistry since 1903, who received the full
title in 1911. Upon his resignation in 1918, Dr. Marcus L. Ward, '02_d_,
succeeded to the position.

The Summer Session was first established by the Regents in 1900 as a
separate division of the University. Courses in the summer had been
given since 1894 under the direction of a committee from the Faculty of
Literature, Science, and the Arts, but the Regents had assumed no real
responsibility for this work and the fact that the chairman and all the
members of the committee, save one, were of the rank of instructor
indicates the minor place it assumed in university affairs. With a
reorganization in 1900 under the chairmanship of Professor John O. Reed,
'85, of the Department of Physics, a new life was given to the School.
From that time it grew rapidly, until in the summer of 1919 it had an
enrolment of almost 2,000, including students in the Law School, Medical
School, Engineering College, and a summer library course, though the
majority, of course, were enrolled in the Literary College. When
Professor Reed became Dean of the Literary Department in 1907, Professor
John R.