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in their scope paralleled the undergraduate work in colleges and 
universities. These subjects were deemed necessary because 
most applicants were poorly prepared in them, and it appeared 
advisable to incorporate them in the requirements for admission. 
The applicant must now hold a degree from a high-grade uni- 
versity, college or technical school and in addition present evi- 
dence that he has taken at least one full year in college or 
university botany, including general morphology, histology and 
physiology of plants; at least one college course in zoology, 
physics, inorganic chemistry, geology, economics, mechanical 
drawing, the completion of mathematics through trigonometry, 
and has a reading knowledge of French or German. 
The effect of this was apparent in the class that entered under 
the new requirements in 1911. It resulted in a marked advance 
in scholarship due to a more thorough preparation in the sci- 
ences which are a foundation for forestry. In most respects 
the first year’s operation of the new schedule was highly satis- 
factory. The elimination of general science and most of the 
special lecture courses gave the much needed opportunity to 
increase the technical work. The requirements in both silvi- 
culture and management were nearly doubled. There was a 
sharp falling off in attendance, but to what extent it was due 
to this change is not known. It is believed to have been partly 
due to the rapid increase in the number of schools. The 
attendance for the year was sixty, a decrease of forty-two from 
that of the previous year. This made no appreciable difference 
in the wide distribution of the students, as the sixty men enrolled 
were from twenty-five states. 
The revised schedule, calling for additional field work in 
silviculture, made it necessary for the Junior class to spend two 
weeks of the spring term in the Adirondack Mountains. As in 
previous years the Senior field work was conducted in the South. 
The Crossett Lumber Company, Crossett, Ark., granted the use 
of their property for this work. 
The curriculum at this time offered instruction in thirty-six 
courses in forestry subjects, all of a technical nature. They 
varied in length from one to three terms with the exception 
of two short courses on special subjects by outside lecturers. 
It was apparent that the work could not be materially extended, 
