AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 17 

1903-1904 
The third session of the summer school, which opened on July 
I, 1903, was reduced to seven weeks. Mr. Marston was in 
charge. The curriculum remained unchanged with the exception 
of greater diversity in the work, due to the larger number of 
special lectures. Fifteen students were in attendance, none of 
whom were women. Of those in attendance seven later entered 
the regular course. Mr. Akerman resigned at the close of the 
collegiate year in June and accepted the position of State Forester 
of Massachusetts. 
The registration in the regular course was sixty-six, repre- 
senting thirty-three collegiate institutions in twenty-three states. 
There was one student each from the Philippine Islands and 
Sweden. The large increase in students in the Senior class was 
partly due to the discontinuance of the College of Forestry 
at Cornell University. Special arrangements were made whereby 
students from that institution were admitted to the Yale Forest 
School, and ten men availed themselves of this arrangement. 
Although no additions were made to the list of regular 
instructors, it became necessary to employ a number of tempo- 
rary assistants because of the unexpectedly large number of 
students. Walter Mulford was employed to assist in the courses 
in silviculture and forest mensuration, and Austin Cary in the 
field work of the Senior class at Milford. Harry Tiemann, 
M.F. ’03, was appointed engineer in the technological laboratory 
in the place of H. S. Betts, and continued in this position until 
1909, when work in cooperation with the United States Govern- 
ment was discontinued. 
In late December a disastrous fire broke out in Marsh Hall. 
It started in the basement and burned or severely injured the 
testing laboratory, the assembly hall, two recitation rooms. and 
the instrument room. The School records, the library and 
herbarium were saved. For two weeks at the beginning of the 
winter term recitations and lectures were held at the Sheffield 
Scientific School. The restored building was in many respects 
better adapted to the requirements of the School than before 
the fire. The equipment at the summer school was greatly 
improved by the construction of three buildings which were the 
gift of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Pinchot. ‘Through the further 
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