998 PARKS 



Second Semester 



English (reports and special articles) 3 



Elementary zoology .......... 2 



Surveying (including setting out work and calculations for earth work) 4 



Theory of design of public properties 3 



Municipal government 2 



Agronomy 2 



Third Semester 



Entomology ;'. 3 



Plants and planting design 4 



Parks and park details 3 



Building construction and principles of architectural design .... 3 



Theory of city planning ........ 3 



Fourth Semester 



Business methods and accounts 2 



Road construction and maintenance, drainage and water supply . . 4 



Building construction methods and details 4 



Materials of construction 2 



Specifications, contracts and estimating 2 



Sociology and recreation activities 2 



Your committee further recommends that the executive of the institute 

 approach the governing bodies of all the larger park systems in the United 

 States and Canada with a view to the adoption of the apprenticeship system 

 in park work, and that negotiations be opened with the following universities 

 looking to the establishment at one, or possibly two of them of the two- 

 year course as set forth above, viz.: University of Minnesota, Cornell, 

 Michigan Agricultural College and the University of Wisconsin. 



Your committee has noted with interest the report of the reporting 

 committee at the Kansas City Convention, but' is of the opinion that any 

 reasonably adaptable student, after passing through the apprenticeship and 

 university courses, should be fit to branch out and make a success not only 

 in the lines enumerated by the reporting committee, but in many other 

 directions, should circumstances cause him to leave park executive work." 



Report signed by Allen S. Wootton, Park Engineer, Vancouver, B. C., 

 chairman; E. A. Piester, Department of Landscape Design, Ann Arbor, 

 Mich.; L. P. Jensen, Arboriculturist, St. Louis, Mo. 



