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training in professional forestry should be at least equal to those 

 for the other learned professions, such as civil and mechanical 

 engineering, law, medicine, etc. At the conference, the need of 

 a thorough foundation in subjects of general educational char- 

 acter was clearly realized. The representatives of the conference 

 advocated a collegiate training in history, economics, English, and 

 foreign languages, as well as in botany, geology, and other aux- 

 iliary scientific subjects. Since it is impossible to give an ade- 

 quate training in these subjects and in technical forestry in less 

 than four years of collegiate work, the conference placed itself 

 definitely on record that the technical schools should be of col- 

 legiate grade and of a rank equivalent to that established by the 

 Carnegie Foundation. It was agreed that the course should com- 

 prise at least four years of undergraduate work. In the case of 

 post-graduate schools, there should be at least one year of post- 

 graduate work in technical forestry, making a five-year course 

 altogether; and no post-graduate degree should be granted to a 

 student who has not had at least two years' work in technical 

 forestry either in the graduate course or the graduate and under- 

 graduate courses combined.* 



General Educational Requirements for a Degree in 

 Forestry. 



It was the decision of the representatives of the dififerent 

 schools that an adequate training in mathematics, general and 

 national history, and modern languages should be required for 

 admission to a forest school. In some cases the required work 

 should be done in college, and in other cases it would be sufficient 

 to accept an equivalent of college work done before entrance. 



No attempt has been made to define the scope of the general 

 educational requirements and those in the subsidiary technical 

 subjects, since these courses are already well standardized in all 

 high grade colleges. 



Mathematics. The minimum requirement in mathematics 

 should include trigonometry. The advanced work may be given 

 in the forest school, or an equivalent of the college course re- 



The University of Toronto offers besides its four-year undergraduate 

 course, a six-year course combining a full arts course with the technical 



