graduates to begin taking control of 

 wood-using industries." 



So much for the men who have tried 

 the works. "I like my job" comes so 

 regularly that the scribe adds here mere- 

 ly a "ditto," The variety of views here 

 expressed is refreshing, and will make 

 it a perfectly simple matter to give a 



course suited to everybody, and one that 

 will correspond to "painless dentistry" 

 and make the jump from the school in- 

 to the works simply a "beaver-slide." 

 Lovejoy is surveying the grade for this 

 now. 



R. 



NEWS AND OTHERWISE 



Four new courses will be given for the 

 first time beginning this semester. They 

 are : a course in Forestry for Civil En- 

 gineers, which according to the An- 

 nouncement, includes the "identification, 

 characteristics, methods of storage, and 

 treatment of timbers used in construc- 

 tion ; methods of transportation of rough 

 timber; relation of forests to precipita- 

 tion and run off of water sheds, with 

 special reference to power and storage 

 reservoirs and irrigation projects; plant- 

 ing for reservoir protection, snow and 

 windbreaks ; special surveys of timber 

 holdings; methods of securing rights 

 of way and easements across timber 

 holdings," which is open to all students, 

 and is a two hour course given by Pro- 

 fessor Lovejoy; also a course in For- 

 estry for Teachers, which comprises the 

 "history of the science and the general 

 economic phases; the ways of identify- 

 ing common trees, methods of tree plant- 

 ing, tree species desirable for various 

 specific purposes; the literature and 

 references," is open to all students, 

 and is a two hour course given by Mr. 

 Young. 



A course in Forest Improvements, 

 including "planning, locating, and con- 

 structing forest roads, trails, telephone 

 lines, lookout stations, camps, and other 

 permanent improvements ; locating and 

 developing systems of improvement ; 

 costs of construction and maintenance. 

 The course considers improvements for 

 administration and protection, rather 



than for logging and other exploitation :" 

 also a course in Forest Administration, 

 taking up "the methods of handling large 

 forest properties with special reference 

 to national and state forests ; the organ- 

 ization and conduct of forest business, 

 administrative details of personnel, in- 

 ventory of resources, records, handling 

 of sales of products, grazing, refores- 

 tation, seed collection, usual legal pro- 

 cedures and special forest investiga- 

 tions," both 2 hr. courses given by Pro- 

 fessor Lovejoy. 



At the meeting of the American For- 

 estry Association in Washington, D. C., 

 at the time when the Conservation Con- 

 gress was in session, Professor Roth 

 was elected one of the Vice Presidents 

 of that body. 



Civil Service examinations are sched- 

 uled for March 11 and 12, and practi- 

 cally all of the graduate class are now in 

 training for this event. 



After much useless discussion in var- 

 ious business meetings, the Club has set 

 the date for the annual dance as Friday, 

 February 27th, and all the latest whirls 

 and zig-zags will be in order. The dance 

 will l)e held at the Packard Academy. 



Lovejoy's Latest Hit is well worth 

 retting down here. Look it over. 

 When Freedom from her mountain 

 height, 



