26 AMEKICAN FORESTRY 



The department has a large electrical stereopticon and reflectroscope 

 which is frequently used to illustrate the lectures, and there is a large supply 

 of lantern slides and photographs illustrating every phase of forestry work. 

 The equipment of forestry instruments of both American and German make 

 is very complete. Most of this equipment is entirely new, and all is of the 

 best quality obtainable. It is provided and added to yearly by the State as 

 the necessity arises. 



A forest nursery has been started in connected with the department, and 

 young forest trees are grown for the purpose of experimental planting. 



THE CURRICULUM 



A complete undergraduate curriculum is arranged which will serve as 

 the basis not only of practical work in forestry, but also of a liberal education. 

 During the first two years much attention is given to biology and civil en- 

 gineering, both of which are very important fundamentals upon which are 

 built the more technical forestry courses. A knowledge of the principles of 

 forestry in its different branches is given to the student, and considerable 

 practical work is done in the forest. The woodlands belonging to the uni- 

 vprsity, together with adjacent lands covered by young forest, furnish a field 

 for the study of many forest problems. Field trips are made and demonstra- 

 tion thinnings and plantations made at various places throughout the State. 

 Particular attention is given to the collection and presentation of statistical 

 data in report form. 



Detailed descriptions of the courses as well as of scholarships and prizes 

 offered by the university may be found in a special catalog of the Forestry 

 Department which will be mailed to any one upon request. 



The instruction in this department consists of lectures, recitations, labora- 

 tory and field work, the latter consuming a considerable portion of the sched- 

 uled time during the Junior and Senior years. The instruction in technical 

 forestry subjects is given by the professor in charge of the department, and 

 a field assistant. This is supplemented by work given in other departments 

 under fifteen different professors and their assistants. Five recitations hours 

 a week of successful work for one semester entitle a student to one credit. 

 The minimum is seventeen hours a week (exclusive of physical training and 

 military science), leading to three and two-fifths credits. A total of thirty 

 credits or 150 semester hours is required for graduation. At graduation 

 the student receives the degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry. 



students who complete the curriculum are admitted to advanced stand- 

 ing in the graduate schools of forestry and are thus able to shorten the time 

 required to obtain a Master's degree. Graduates are, however, prepared to 

 go directly into practical work, and up to the present time there has been 

 no difficulty in i)lacing them in permanent positions. 



There are good openings for students to obtain work in the maine woods 

 during the summer vacations, and many take advantage of the opportunity to 

 get practical ex])erience, and at the same time aid in defraying the expense of 

 their university course. 



There are now 44 students majoring in forestry, beside some 50 others 



