howling," he said, "they say that the 

 jobs are exhausted, but this is far from 

 truth. There is not a Michigan man out 

 who really wants a position that cannot 

 get it. When Montana overs $4,000 for a 

 teacher, and every school is having a 

 hard time holding on to its teachers, it 

 does not look as if the jobs were very 

 scarce. When I started out with Fer- 

 now at Cornell, I often heard him re- 

 mark that it was a downright shame to 

 start young fellows in a profession with- 

 out anything to offer. But I said then 

 as I have always said, 'just trust the 

 American yqungster to know where he 

 gets off.' In 1898 we could not have 

 placed five men in the service ; last year 

 three hundred men went out from the 

 forestry schools in the United States. 

 Moreover, every man who goes out 

 makes a place for three new men. 



"We need men in other lines of for- 

 estry outside of the field work, in poli- 

 tics, in our legislatures, both state and 

 national; in the legal profession, in the 

 courts ; in newspaper offices. There is 

 opportunity on every side." 



He spoke briefly of the work of the 

 school up to date and expressed the cer- 

 tain belief that the school would be 

 Building should be completed, 

 right up on top when the new Science 



"We are beginning our eleventh year 

 here at Michigan," he said, "and we 

 are decidedly alive. It was not very 

 long ago that whenever we wanted any 

 new equipment we had to bring in sta- 

 tistics to show a reason for existence. 

 I remember well how pleased Hill was 

 when he was awarded a new pair of 

 calipers when the statistics showed an 

 hundred per cent increase in attend- 

 ance in jumping from three to six. But 

 we have shown them as the old saying 

 goes, 'by their fruits shalt know them,' 

 and the fruits have not been lemons, but 

 good full-sized pumpkins. 



"This is the first year for some years 

 past in which the entire faculty is com- 

 ing back and will stick. It is a pleas- 

 ant thing to think of, another year 

 without disturbance. Last year the com- 

 plaints came in that we were not doing 

 very much, that we should do more for 

 the money, and in a shorter time. I 

 might say that we have never been able 

 to do what we wanted to. and it is just 

 now that we are getting where we want 

 to be. With a new $375,000 Science 

 Building among other things in the new 

 equipment, things will soon be where we 

 have long sought to put them." 



He asked the aid of everyone in the 

 schol in building it up. "There is need 

 for more efficiency, particularly on our 

 part, and we are now investigating the 

 matter of greater efficiency. You can 

 help us out ; we ask your aid and your 

 suggestions. Make use of the Sugges- 

 tion Box, that is what it is there for. 

 We have hopes of bringing a new era 

 in the way of studying Forestry ; it will 

 hold your interest in spite of you. But 

 in this we need your help ; stand by your 

 professors, you will be benefited by it. 

 We need to make better foresters ; the 

 Michigan forester has been a good man 

 but he is not finished as yet. The men 

 of Michigan now have great competi- 

 tion; what we need right now is qual- 

 ity ; a few years ago we did not need 

 such good men, anybody could get in. 

 But the met of today are benefitting by 

 the work of the men who have gone out. 

 Mulford and I worked hard with those 

 men, and we had men to work with who 

 knew what they were here for ; as Mich- 

 igan foresters they stand high. It all 

 takes real studying, and there is a great 

 necessity for the right kind of studying. 

 It takes much more time for a man to 

 be a botanist than a mathematician; it 

 is the same with the study of all living 

 things, it takes time to soak into a man. 



