The New Courses. 



With five men on the Forestry Fac- 

 ulty, devoting 1 all of their time to for- 

 estry, it is now possible to arrange 

 the courses to a little better advant- 

 age, and to expand some and intro- 

 duce other new ones. 



There are two rather marked 

 changes in the curriculum, the 

 omission of Modern Language as a 

 requirement, and the {shifting for- 

 ward of several courses in Forestry 

 to the first, seconrl and third years. 

 The Modern Languages were taken 

 out of the requirerl courses for sev- 

 eral reasons. One year of a language 

 does not give the average student a 

 working knowledge of it. Less than 

 twenty per cent, of the graduates of 

 Forest Schools in the United States 

 have occasion to use a foreign lan- 

 guage; and with so much other work 

 in school directly usable in Forestry, 

 it was thought foeist to take it out of 

 the requirements, but still leave time 

 for it as an elective in the third or 

 fourth year if the student desires to 

 take a language then. 



With the addition of several new 

 courses, the forestry work has been 

 spread over the whole five years in 

 college. The Freshman will get a lit- 

 tle taste of forestry in his second se- 

 mester; and every semester from that 

 time until the end of his course he 

 is in touch with some phase of it. 



Beginning next Fall, the Sopho- 

 more will have a course on general 

 forestry, and one on woodlots and 

 forest parks. These courses are to. 

 be open to all students in the Uni- 

 versity, and will be adapted to the 

 general student wno wishes to get 

 an insight into the subject. 



In the third year, the student will 

 follow up his surveying with Forest 



'Mensuration; and his Forest Botany 

 with Silvics. In this way, it is 

 thought he will be better prepared 

 for summer work in the woods a year 

 earlier than heretofore. The last 

 two years are pretty well filled with 

 forestry, but time 13 left for electives 

 that suit the inclinations of the stu- 

 dent. 



The new courses that have been 

 added are efforts on the part of the 

 faculty to meet the demands of the 

 times. The kind of work included in 

 (Forestry 2, "Woodlots and Forest 

 Parks," is almost self-evident from 

 the title of the course. It will deal 

 with statistics to a certain extent, 

 and with the business of keeping 

 these small tracts of woods in a con- 

 tinually productive state. 



"Forest Improvements" will be 

 considered mainly from the view- 

 point of administration and protec- 

 tion. From the outline in the an- 

 nouncement it is quite evident that 

 the material for this course must 

 come from first-hand experience, 

 must be well illustrated with pic- 

 tures and demonstrations, and will 

 require some field work. The fact is 

 emphasized that the course will not 

 deal with logging operations or other 

 exploitation. 



The old courses in Silviculture: 2a, 2'b 

 2c, and 2d have been altered slightly. 

 That part of silviculture in which the 

 factors of growth .are considered spe- 

 cifically has been separated more or 

 less, and placed in the new courses 5 

 and 6. Included along with it, in 

 these courses, are the habits, struc- 

 tures, and behavior of the tree. This 

 makes up what might be called the 

 science end of silviculture as opposed 

 to the practice which is included in 



