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obtaining of more studerits, but the determination of methods to 

 limit number who may be admitted to the professional courses, 

 in a way that will raise the general standard. At the present 

 time only those students are entered who can satisfy 13^ out of 

 15 units of required work. The entrance requirements of the 

 College are as follows: 



The subjects and work mentioned, to be of high school grade. 



English, 4 years, 3 units. History, i unit. Elementary Algebra, i unit. 

 Plane Geometry, i unit. Solid Geometry, ^ unit French or German, 

 2 units. Physics, i unit. Science, i. e. Botany, Chemistry, Zoology or 

 Biology, 2 units. Drawing, free hand or mechanical, i unit. Electives in 

 Science or Mechanics, 2 J/2 uiuts.* 



Under Electives, a student may offer Latin, Physical Geography 

 or Geology, Carpenter Shop or Foundry and extra work in Draw- 

 ing- Upon entrance certificates, as submitted to the College dur- 

 ing the past year, almost without exception students offered high 

 school physics for entrance. In some instances they are so im- 

 pressed with the value of the High School work that they wish 

 advanced credit for physics. This is seldom if ever given. For 

 several years the Department of Physics in Syracuse University 

 has been preparing careful statistics as to the Physics offered by 

 entering students and they now state that they are convinced that 

 a student does not get a working knowledge of Physics in the av- 

 erage High School. For a time it was thought that the problem 

 could be solved by requiring physics for entrance, but the ex- 

 perience of two years shows that this does not relieve the situa- 

 tion. At present every student entering is required to take an 

 elementary college course in physics regardless of previous train- 

 ing. Columbia, Cornell and Dartmouth seem to have arrived at 

 much the same conclusion as to the nature of physics offered by 

 entering students. A careful census of the present sophomore 

 class in the College of Forestry confirms this same idea. 



As proof of the conclusions of the Department of Physics, as 

 to the need of training in physics, for the student in forestry, the 

 following list of forestry courses are given, all of which would 

 seem to presuppose a knowledge of physics. The idea advanced 

 is not to offer a technical treatment of the various phases of 

 physics which would be of use to the forester, but rather to pre- 



* A unit is the equivalent of 5 recitations a week for a year in one 

 branch of study. Two hours of laboratory work count as one hour. 



