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tion of parts of suitable courses already given in the Business 

 School, together with some work in the forestry school for 

 those who have had no previous training in forestry. The first 

 year will include, besides new courses on the manufacture of 

 lumber and on general lumbering to be given by Mr. Gries, cer- 

 tain Business School courses on accounting, marketing, factory 

 management, business statistics and investments. In the second 

 year the Business School courses will be three ; in industrial 

 accounting, including cost accounting; corporation finance and 

 an advanced course on manufacturing made up of parts of two 

 existing courses. Lumbering occupies the whole of the second 

 half year, which will be devoted to special investigations in 

 the field, each student being given a large problem in the lumber- 

 ing business on which he will write his graduation thesis. 



Besides this, there is also needed a kind of forestry research 

 not hitherto available, to which the Harvard School of Forestry 

 will now devote itself, turning over the subject of lumbering to 

 the Business School. Within the accepted field of forestry 

 there are several lines that give ample room for the training of 

 the specialist. 



Allied with the business of lumbering, as well as with forestry, 

 are studies in wood technology, — research to discover, for in- 

 stance, what new sources of supply there are for wood pulp, 

 which is a pressing economic problem ; what uses can be found 

 for small trees, below accepted lumber sizes ; what are the most 

 practicable methods of reproducing forests; what processes of 

 preservative or other chemical treatment will bring into use 

 woods not suited to existing needs ; and how diseases and in- 

 sect pests can be controlled. Such things involve advanced tech- 

 nical research closely linked with economic conditions ; and in 

 this direction it is expected that the Forestry School will con- 

 tribute to the broadening of the business side of lumbering as 

 presented in the Business School. 



The legislature of North Dakota has instituted a State School 

 of Forestry at Bottineau. From the circular issued by its presi- 

 dent, Fred. W. Smith, who is at the same time State Forester, it 

 would appear that its function is not to educate foresters, but to 

 educate the public and mainly in tree planting, the school dis- 



