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secure time to do what apparently has been done by other teachers. 

 The nearest approach to it has been brought out by Dr. Fernald 

 but only incidentally in some suggestions. He said, if I recollect, 

 that it was important that the student should have a good general 

 knowledge, that he should have a good foundation for work, and 

 that if anything had to be cut in the making of an entomologist, the 

 entomology might, in some cases, be cut to good advantage; and now 

 I am not sure but that is true. That a relatively small amount of 

 entomology in the undergraduate course is in itself as good as the 

 devotion of a great amount of time, a number of hours through the 

 entire course, to the neglect, necessarily, of some fundamental study. 

 There seems, also, in all the papers, to be rather an ignoring of what 

 might be called an Eastern college course. The point of view seems 

 to be from the standpoint of a rather mature student, a man who 

 enters the college with the idea of pursuing a certain study, and Avho 

 has a definite point in view. In our institution in New Jersey the 

 first year is prescribed for all scientific studies; there is no election. 

 The idea is that every man who enters college should have a funda- 

 mental training that leads to making a good citizen of him. Ento- 

 mology does not enter into the course until the second semester of 

 the junior year at all, and for those students that take only the bio- 

 logical course that is all the entomology they get, and that is all that 

 they have time for. Now we work our men six days in the week — • 

 five full days, morning and afternoon, and more or less the sixth day, 

 and they work from nine o'clock in the morning — some of them con- 

 sider chapel work, too — and until four o'clock, and some until five 

 o'clock. That is a long enough day for a college student, and if 

 taken thoroughly, is all he can do. In that first semester, or rather 

 the semester in the junior year, both the biological and agricultural 

 students are placed on the same plane, and the object in that course 

 is to teach them something about the structure and the general 

 classification of insects; the relation of insects to other animate 

 nature, — that is their place in nature, and as the course is developed, 

 a considerable amount of time is given to diseases, both of plant and 

 animal. A great many of our men who take the biological course do 

 so as preliminary to a medical course. We do not aim, in our insti- 

 tution, to turn out trained entomologists. Those students who pur- 

 sue the agricultural course have not the time; agriculture in its broad 

 sense will take up the time of any man for four years if he wants to 

 pursue it, and leave only a small margin for entomology. In the last 

 half of the senior xesiT the agricultural students get a training in econ- 

 omic entomology, but that training is not enough at any time to turn 

 out a man who is ready to take a position for entomological work. 



