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made, much practical assistance has been given, resulting in decidedly 

 increased food production, and many valuable lessons as to the kinds 

 of difficulties which delay farmers have been learned. 



LANDSCAPE ART 



E. G. Davis, R. W. Curtis, Professors of Landscape Art 



Teaching. — The teaching work of the Department of Landsape Art 

 has gradually crystallized into the policy of giving both general and 

 technical instruction in answer to the needs of three classes of students. 

 The first of these classes comprises mainly students of the College of 

 Agriculture who desire a better understanding of the elementary principles 

 of landscape architecture; such a brief introduction to the principles of 

 this profession will afford the coming generation of country folk a more 

 intelligent point of view in the problems of rural community improvement. 

 The second class comprises students pursuing other technical courses 

 in the University which are somewhat allied to landscape art, such as 

 forestry, architecture, and civil and municipal engineering; such students 

 elect from both elementary and technical or advanced courses. The 

 third class comprises professional students of landscape architecture. 



In last year's report it was stated that in the preceding nine years 

 the enrollment (without duplication of students electing more than one 

 course in any year) had increased from 12 to 450. The greater part of this 

 increase was due to the increased enrollment of students of the College of 

 Agriculture in the elementary courses. The number of professional students, 

 including graduates, has for several years been limited to 35. Drafting- 

 room space, and also the limited teaching staff of the department, do 

 not permit a larger registration. Courses of study now offered represent 

 satisfactorily the various subdivisions of the field of landscape architecture, 

 but considerable amplification and perfecting of these remains to be 

 done. 



It is of considerable interest to note the important bearing of landscape 

 architecture on war activities. Most of the planning and direction of 

 construction of the cantonments last year and of the industrial settle- 

 ments this year has been and is under the direction of landscape architects, 

 in the latter case more especially in cooperation with architects and 

 engineers. While the students of landscape architecture, like all others, 

 naturally prefer branches of the service affording active fighting, the need 

 of men trained for planning has led the Government to select such men 

 from the ranks and to assign them to the Cantonment Division at Wash- 

 ington. A large number had already voluntarily entered that Division 

 since the beginning of the war, A number of our students in the various 



