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years required for this training must be increased. The scope of 

 courses considered here has in view a well balanced professional 

 school which does not aim at great specialization in any of these 

 three lines of work, but attempts to give a general knowledge of 

 the principles which underlie the entire field of the forester's 

 activities, leaving the acquisition of specialized knowledge to be 

 gained by the students in actual business life, or after graduation 

 from the forest school, or by special study. 



Some difficulty has been encountered in describing the requisite 

 courses of technical character because of the different terminology 

 and methods of arranging the work obtaining in the various 

 forest schools. An attempt has been made to describe at some 

 length the scope of each course, outlining, at least for the most 

 important courses in forestry, topics which are to be covered in 

 them. It is not the intention to force the adoption of these exact 

 outlines by all forest schools, but rather to indicate the scope and 

 contents of the courses. There is a full appreciation that on 

 account of the personnel of the teaching staff and other practical 

 considerations, there must be considerable latitude left to each 

 school to arrange its course in such a way as to meet its special 

 needs and use its particular facilities. 



For the purposes of this report there must be some definite 

 terminology. It should be understood, however, that there is no 

 effort to require schools to adopt in their catalogues the names 

 of courses or the exact classification of work used by the com- 

 mittee. The aim has been to make clear the scope of the work 

 which should be covered by the curriculum. 



Time Schedule. 



The technical courses considered essential in a high grade 

 school and the number of hours accepted by the Educational 

 Conference as the minimum time to be devoted to each course are 

 given in the following schedule: 



