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ment management, marketing, etc., because the man who ex- 

 pects to attain to an executive position in a large company, not 

 only in this country but elsewhere throughout the world, needs 

 this particular training. Having it, he will be able to go into 

 almost any plant and know at once whether or not the work is 

 being properly done. 



University life has many attractions. I never had very 

 much of it in my time, but from the little I have had I know 

 it to be exceedingly attractive. I have also discovered that it 

 can be too attractive, and when I find myself growing a little 

 bit detached from the commercial end of the industry, I put on 

 my hat, tramp about a mile from the college, get on a street 

 car, go down town and walk along the water front, dropping 

 into different fish houses in order to get a little more of the 

 commercial atmosphere. Our great trouble is that we have a 

 tendency to grow away from the commercial fisheries, and if 

 we begin to do this we are going in the wrong direction. We 

 should keep closely in touch with the commercial end of the 

 industry; its problems are our problems. As far as possi- 

 ble, therefore, we are confining our attention just now to prac- 

 tical problems. We do not have to go very far to find them, 

 as they are numerous on the Pacific coast. 



Every man at the university is engaged in some line of re- 

 search that will benefit the fisheries in some way. Dr. G. C. 

 Embody, who has recently joined our staff, is preparing to en- 

 gage in research work bearing upon the question of the rear- 

 ing and feeding of fish. In the preparations laboratory, Mr. 

 C. L. Anderson and myself are carrying on canning and cur- 

 ing experiments. We are taking many species that are com- 

 mon there, but which have never been canned or cured in any 

 way, and are preserving them in various ways. We are now 

 preparing to take over from the State of Washington a con- 

 siderable area of oyster ground, with a view to developing 

 it and endeavoring, as best we can with the limited means 

 at our disposal, to arrive at a solution of some of our many 

 oyster problems. All of these things work for the benefit of 



