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3. Arboriculture, dealing with the 

 identification and culture of trees and 

 shrubs, including soil requirements, 

 climatic adaptations, etc. 



4. Tree diseases and tree surgery. 

 An extensive and thorough course in 

 modern methods. 



5. Tree insects, their identification, 

 habii3 and methods of control. 



6. Forestry, covering the fundamen- 

 tal principles of forest management, 

 taught by the Massachusetts State 

 forester, Prof. F. William Rane. 



7. Landscape gardening, teaching 

 the proper use of trees, shrubs, etc., 

 for the most artistic efi^ects. This is a 

 thorough course, covering two full 

 years, and includes surveying, map- 

 ping, contracting, etc. 



To assist the students in their work 

 the equipment of the college includes 

 large nurseries, a fine arboretum, na- 

 tural forest, drafting rooms, survey- 

 ing instruments, and all necessary im- 

 plements. There is no charge for 

 tuition. 



A Class in A new and valuable 



National Forest addition to the curric- 

 Management ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ Yale 



Forest School is a course of lec- 

 tures to the senior class during the 

 winter term on the National Forests, 

 which is given by Mr. W. B. Greely, 

 a graduate of the Yale Forest School 

 in the class of 1904, and now Super- 

 visor of the Sierra (South) National 

 Forest. Mr. Greely is a Californian, 

 and since graduating from the For- 

 est School has been in the Govern- 

 ment service, being one of the first 

 technically trained men to be ap- 

 pointed supervisor of a forest. 



The course will deal almost entire- 

 ly with the actual administration of 

 the National holdings of timber and 

 range. Its aim will be to give the 

 students of the school the point of 

 view of the administration officer on 

 the ground, and a grasp of the prin- 

 ciples and methods followed in hand- 

 ling all of the more important kinds 

 of National Forest business. Four 

 lectures will be given weekly on the 



policy of the National Forest admin- 

 istration, the organization of the ad- 

 ministrative force, the construction of 

 rangers' headquarters, roads, trails, 

 bridges, and telephone lines, the pro- 

 tection of National Forests from fire, 

 the sale and cutting of national tim- 

 ber, including a discussion of the for- 

 estry methods which have been 

 found applicable, the administration 

 of grazing lands and use of stock 

 ranges within the National Forests, 

 special uses of National Forest land 

 for home building and commercial 

 enterprises, tree planting on the Na- 

 tional Forests, the handling of claims 

 and entries under the public land 

 laws, and the preparation of National 

 Forest records and accounts. 



Supplementary to the lectures 

 there will be two hours a week of con- 

 sultation between small groups of 

 students and the instructor, by which 

 the student will be given first-hand ac- 

 quaintance with typical administrative 

 cases and methods as in a forest su- 

 pervisor's office. 



In January Dr. Hermann von 

 Schrenk, consulting timber engineer 

 for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa 

 Fe Railroad, and supervisor of tim- 

 ber preservation for the Chicago, Bur- 

 lington and Quincy Railroad, gave, 

 as in former years, a course of seven 

 lectures on wood preservation at the 

 Yale Forest School. 



Children Addressing the Ameri- 



And Civic ^^^n Civic Association 

 Betterment ,, r ,, 



upon the progress of the 



civic betterment movement among 

 the school children, Mrs. Edwin F. 

 Moulton, of Warren, Ohio, president 

 of the Woman's Outdoor Art League 

 of the Association, said : 



"Our public schools are doing ef 

 fective work in raising the standard 

 of manhood and womanhood, but we 

 must look to them to educate the child 

 more effectually in the ways of good 

 .citizenship. Junior civic leagues are 

 a means to increased training in good 

 citizenship. Lessons should be given 

 in citizenship so that when the pres- 

 ent-day boys and girls are become the 



