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The new catalogue of the school 

 ^Imws a number of new courses which 

 very substantially enrich the curricu- 

 lum. The Forest School now affords 

 opportunity for advanced post- 

 work along special lines. 

 Hitherto the course has been pre- 

 scribed and there has been little oppor- 

 tunity for specialization. There is now. 

 however, beginning' to be a demand at 

 Vale for post-graduate work by gracl- 



an 



graduate 



nates of forest schools who wish to 

 specialize in certain branches. A num- 

 ber of advanced courses are now of- 

 fered and there will be a distinct 

 development of instruction along 

 this line as rapidly as the circum- 

 stances \\arrant it. The new courses 

 are chielly in subject- related to Silvi- 

 culture, Fore-t Management, Forest 

 Product-. Fnginerring. and Lum- 

 bering. 



PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE, DEPARTMENT 



OF FORESTRY 



THE Department of Forestry of the in \l;tbam;i. During the summer of 

 Pennsylvania State College ha^ 1907. Mi' Ferguson \\a- a log sealer 

 added an assistant in the person ol with the Pige"ii River Lumber (Tom- 

 Mr. John A. Ferguson. Mr. Fer-uson, pany, of Xortli Carolina. Upon com- 

 \\lio takes up hi- work on September pletion . >f the course in Vale Forest 

 i. as an a--istant in the Department <>f School, he entered the United State- 

 Forestry, comes originally from Canan- Forest Service, and -pent the Mimnier 

 daigua. X. Y. lie received hi- pre- ison of 1908 upon the Boise National 

 paratory training at the Canandaigua Forest with headquarter- at Boise, 



\cademy. and \va- graduated from 

 Hamilton College with the class of 

 1896, receiving a degree of A.I'.. In 



Idaho. 



Mr. Ferguson comes to the college 

 with unusual training, and his connec- 



1903 the same institution conferred tion wit]l thc Department of Forestry 



upon him the degree of A.M. 



will mean a great deal in the develop- 



Upon graduation from college, Mr. ment of that ' w ,, rk in t]lis Allege. 

 Ferguson began teaching in the p rof R h p ,, ;il ,.,. f|f the Penn . 



lyn Polytechnic Institute at Brooklyn, 

 X. Y.. and continued thi- wrk at Fond 

 du Lac. YYis. For several year- he 

 was instructor in Science at Rutgers 

 College Preparatory School. Xew 



sylvania State College. Department of 

 Forestry, writes: 



"Since the opening of our school 

 vear, we find that we have between 



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Brunlwick, N. T- In [ulv. 1006. Mr. fifty-six and sixty men classified in our 



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Ferguson entered the Yale Forest 



Soli >ol and was graduated in 1908 with 



the degree of M.F. \\"hile in Yale, 



Mr. Ferguson assisted 



Tracy, of the Sheffield 



School, in Surveying, and later assisted Our forestry society, which was or- 



Professor Chapman, of the Yale For- ganized last year, has held two ineet- 



est School, in field work carried on by ings, with an attendance of forty to 



the senior class of the Forest School fifty at each meeting." 



four-year course in forestry. The-e 

 men are divided as follows : Senior 

 year, four men ; Junior year, eight 

 men : Sophomore year, fourteen men ; 



Scientific Freshman year, thirty men. 



