LETTERS FROM THE FELLOWS 



New Orleans, Louisiana. 

 My Dear Fellow Foresters: 



Given one healthy body, an average mind and the best undergraduate 

 forest school education in the country, to determine one's future in the 

 world of business. In the first place each graduate must work out the 

 individual components which will determine the extent of his success for 

 himself, and in each case they will be different. Now the "jump" you 

 get towards a future success in business will depend largely upon the 

 effort which is applied to one's work while in college and you can have 

 no very definite idea as to just how much the individual bits of knowledge 

 and information acquired at school will aid you when you get out of 

 school. 



"And then you can't always sometimes tell" just the line of work 

 you will follow and the location thereof, when the college ties are broken. 

 If a person had told me four years ago that upon graduation I would 

 locate in the Southland I would have immediately replied that such a 

 person had had a pipe dream; three years ago I would have said such a 

 person was badly mistaken; two years ago the answer would have been 

 the "possibility is slight"; but a year ago when opportunity presented, 

 it was immediately considered. 



Time after time during the course of my forest school training I heard 

 uttered by fellow students, and said myself on numerous occasions: "Well 

 this course or this assignment does not amount to much and so I'll just 

 slide through it." And just as many times since taking this position I 

 have wished that I had paid a certain point a little more attention or 

 had saved a certain reference, or had tried to secure a copy of a certain 

 article at the time. 



Little did I think when taking Wood Technology that I would ever 

 be called on to make an application of the distinction between white oak 

 and red oak, or to identify many of the different kinds of hardwood and 

 in like connection with numerous other points I have found such in- 

 formation exceedingly useful. The point I am trying to bring out is that 

 if a course of study is worth pursuing, it is worth all the effort which 

 such a course requires for a proper pursuance of same. 



Another practice which I think every forestry student should follow 

 up is a careful study of the lumber and forestry journals and publications. 

 They are real text books when intelligently studied. Read them system- 

 atically and subscribe to two or three of the more prominent ones. Save 

 every copy for future reference. I have found this practice on my 

 part of inestimable value and have gone back to them to inform myself 

 on some point, long after I supposed that I had gotten all I had need 

 for, from that issue. 



Study trade conditions, and learn who the big men are in lumbering 

 and forestry. I believe that an innovation which could be carried out 

 with much success and profit to all foresters would be a questionaire, su- 

 pervised by the Forest School Faculty. This would consist in any one 



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