24 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

reach of the School is yearly becoming of greater importance 
for purposes of instruction. 
With the decrease in the number of special lectures in the 
regular course, the Forest Club has been the avenue through 
which foresters and other scientific men visiting New Haven 
have been introduced to the School. 
At the close of the work of the Senior class at New Haven 
in February, 1908, formal exercises were held for the first time. 
The principal address was by Gifford Pinchot. Other speakers 
were President Hadley, the Director of the School, W. B. 
Greeley and H. R. MacMillan, the latter representing the grad- 
uating class. These exercises continue to be held each year at 
New Haven before the Senior class leaves for the South. 
1908-1909 
In 1908 R. C. Bryant and R. C. Hawley were promoted to 
the rank of assistant professors. It was becoming more and 
more apparent, in order to meet the needs of technical instruc- 
tion, that it would be necessary to lengthen the course to three 
years or else increase the requirements for admission. The 
latter course was followed. Early in the year a circular was 
issued announcing that candidates for admission for the degree 
Master of Forestry, in addition to completing an undergraduate 
college course, must have pursued certain specified subjects. 
The new requirements did not go into effect for two years in 
order that undergraduates then preparing for the School could 
arrange to cover the required work. Arrangements had been 
made with the Sheffield Scientific School whereby students in 
that institution, by taking certain studies in the Forest School 
during the last year of their undergraduate course, could com- 
plete the work at the Forest School in one year. With the grad- 
ual extension of the curriculum and the increase in the number 
of required subjects, this arrangement became more and more 
difficult. Through action of the Governing Board the old 
arrangement was discontinued, to go into effect at the opening 
of the school year 1910. 
The field work of the Senior class was conducted at Doucette, 
Tyler County, Texas, on the lands of the Thompson Brothers 
Lumber Company. The New Haven Water Company began 
