Mont., is chairman of the committee 

 in charge of the affair this year. 



The annual banquet of the Club will 

 be held the evening of the 23rd of 

 March. It is to be given in honor of 

 Professor Roth, and will be in the 

 nature of a farewell tribute to him. 



Saxton found time to pay us a visit 

 while on his vacation, and addressed 

 the Club Wednesday evening, Janu- 

 ary 10, telling us something concern- 

 ing administration work on the Targ- 

 hee forest. He finds things there 

 much the same as Michigan men 

 have found them on other forests, 

 and admits that forestry is not being 

 practiced exactly in the ideal way in 

 wihch we would like 'to have it done. 



Eighteen hours of work in the sur- 

 veying department is now scheduled 

 for the foresters. Six courses in all 

 are given under the new arrangement, 

 which has combined some of the 

 former courses and which also gives 

 new courses. A list of the courses as 

 at present scheduled follows : Sur- 

 veying, 10, photography, 2 hours 

 given by Professor C. T. Johntson 

 surveying, n, mapping, 2 hours 

 surveying, 12, 4 hours, is a combina- 

 tion of the old courses 4 and 5 and 

 consists of drawing work the first 

 half of the semester and field work 

 in the use of instruments the second 

 half; surveying 13, 4 hours, likewise 

 embodies some of the work of old 

 course 5, but adds considerably more 

 so that the course now includes field 

 work, leading to mapping and office 



computations, and including rough 

 triangulation, camera survey, pane 

 table and stadia work; course 14, 4 

 hours, advanced .surveying, triangula- 

 tion. aximuth, land surveying, adjust- 

 ment of instruments, etc.; C. 1C. n. 

 Forest Roads and Uirdges, 2 hours, 

 location and construction of new 

 roads and maintenance of completed 

 roads, the construction of simple 

 highway bridges, the construction of 

 culverts, simple retaining walls, 

 drains for roads, etc.; the location 

 and construction of logging railroads; 

 camp sanitation. The latter course is 

 not being given in the surveying de- 

 partment proper, but by Professor 

 Rich of the civil engineering depart- 

 ment. The course (ills a long felt 

 want and its popularity is attested 

 by the fact that over 50 men are 

 taking it. 



Wiillett Ramsdell, '12, and Carnct 

 Valiton, '14, gave talks before the 

 Club on the evening of February _>X, 

 the former speaking on the Crater 

 National Forest, where he spent last 

 summer on reconnaisancs work, and 

 the latter on the subject of branding 

 cattle, the information given having 

 been received at first hand on one of 

 the Montan,-'. ranches. 



Professor Roth journeyed to Xew 

 Haven, Conn., the 23rd of February 

 to address the Yale forestry gradu- 

 ates on the occasion of their com- 

 mencement exercises, the Yale men 

 being about to pull stakes for the 

 South for field practice. 



Our Second Smoker 



Just before the Christmas recess 

 the second smoker in the series of 

 live to be given during the year, was 

 held in room 407, new engineering 

 building, and like the first, it was a 

 success, due largely to the efforts 

 of group 2, which had the affair in 

 charge. 



The program was a well chosen 

 and we'll arranged one. The first 

 speaker was C. L,. LOSS, the univer- 



sity's purchasing agent, who spoke 

 on the subject of "Supplies." Ik- 

 dwell upon the increasing need of 

 conserving our lumber supplies, citing 

 instances of this sort which had 

 come under his own observation, lie 

 concluded his remarks by telling a 

 Story on "Cully" I'.ryant. who was the 

 first man. he said, to graduate from 

 Michigan in forestry, and who is new 

 a professor in Yale. The story nar- 



