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and the New Haven Water Company whereby a portion of 
the forest property of the company was placed under the man- 
agement of the School, thus making a large body of woodland 
near New Haven available for purposes of instruction and 
experiment. The field work in silviculture was chiefly confined 
to this tract. Arrangements were made for the Seniors to spend 
the last three weeks of the autumn term in lumber camps in 
northern New England. 
After the Easter recess the work with the Senior class was 
transferred to Central Valley, N. Y., where the entire spring 
term was devoted to field work. A working plan was prepared 
for a forest of 15,000 acres owned by E. H. Harriman of New 
York. 
On the completion of their work, for the college year ending 
June, 1902, the degree Master of Forestry was conferred upon 
eight members of the Senior class, and the first graduates of 
the School were ready to begin their professional careers in a 
field just beginning to develop rapidly in the United States. 
Soon after graduating, two members of the class, namely, Roy 
L. Marston and Alfred Akerman, were engaged as instructors. 
1902-1903 
The second session of the summer school was under Mr. 
-Toumey, who was assisted by Walter Mulford, State Forester 
of Connecticut. Nineteen students were in attendance, of whom 
six were women. A large percentage of the male students were 
undergraduates from Eastern universities and colleges, nine 
of whom later entered the School for the regular two-year 
course. 
The curriculum was greatly extended and the courses re- 
arranged during the third year. In September, 1902, Alfred 
Akerman and Roy L. Marston began their work as instructors. 
The position of assistant in botany, occupied the previous year 
by C. E. Preston, was filled by Arthur H. Graves. Howard S. 
Betts was appointed assistant in the wood testing laboratory, 
and Herman von Schrenk lecturer on diseases of trees to take 
the position formerly occupied by William C. Sturgis. 
At the opening of the term twenty-six men enrolled in the 
entering class. Heretofore the students had been largely drawn 
