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ception of forestry is a right one. To 

 do so he must get into the field. The 

 Division of Forestry has made provision 

 to meet this requirement by establish- 

 ing the grade of Student Assistant, with 

 pay at the rate of $300 a year. Men 

 who take this position are required to 



specific advantage this grade offers in 

 enabling a man to take part in actual 

 forest work under a trained forester, and 

 so discover what the profession really 

 means, it has a special usefulness in en- 

 abling men who cannot afford fuller 

 preparation to support themselves while 



A VISTA OF ELMS. 



With Welch Hall and Lawrence Hall on the Yale Campus. 



assist in the work of the Division with 

 the same steadiness and devotion to 

 duty as in all its other members, and 

 they are employed so far as possible in 

 work of peculiar value to them and at 

 the same time of use in the general pro- 

 gress: All their expenses are defrayed 

 while in the field. In addition to the 



getting their education. It does not 

 replace a forest school with advantage, 

 nor is it the intention that it should. No 

 future forester who can possibly afford 

 to take a course, either at Cornell, under 

 Dr. Fernow, or at Biltmore, under Dr. 

 Schenck, should fail to do so. 



The number of positions as Student 



