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Registration. 



There are now forty-three students majoring in forestry at 

 the University of Maine. This does not include the men who 

 attend short courses, either at the University or at the summer 

 school camp. The relative standing of these men is as follows : 



Seniors 6 



Juniors 8 



Sophomores n 



Freshmen 16 



Specials 2 



Total 43 



All of these men expect to make forestry their profession and 

 life work, and they will either go directly into some branch of 

 the work upon graduation, or will continue their studies at 

 some post-graduate school of forestry, where they can obtain 

 advanced standing and credits for a part of their work done at 

 Maine. The courses here now are on a par with any of the 

 four-year-undergraduate courses offered in this country. 



Degrees and Graduates. 



The degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry was awarded 

 to seven men in 191 5, and to two men in 1916. Of these all 

 but one are now actively engaged in some form of forestry 

 work, and the other one is temporarily employed in another 

 line of work but expects to return to the practice of forestry 

 before long. Two men out of the present senior class made the 

 highest honor obtainable in the University ; an election to the 

 honorary society of Phi Kappa Phi. 



Courses. 



A course in Woodlot Forestry has been added to the list of 

 courses offered in the spring semester of each year, and a course 

 in Lumber and Its Uses is now given each fall semester. These 

 are open to all students desiring to elect them. The course in 

 Economics of Forestry has been made a required course for all 

 students majoring in forestry, and is also elective for others. 

 The course in Lumbering has been made continuous throughout 

 the fall semester, and an added course in Lumbering Field 



