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of the director before the alumni in December, 1911, the future 
development of the School must be along the following lines: 
a. In adding to the efficiency of the present courses; 
b. In establishing elective courses in the Senior year; 
c. In increasing our facilities for research and advanced work. 
The need of the first of these is always present because no 
course is so complete that it does not require constant atten- 
tion on the part of the instructor in order to keep it abreast of 
the times and effective from an educational standpoint. 
As regards the second, it is believed that the time is already 
at hand when elective courses should be considered. Because 
of the large amount of required work it is not possible to add 
many optional courses, such as the course on park and street 
trees offered for the first time in 1911, and four proposed 
optional courses to be given for the first time in 1913-14. Addi- 
‘tional courses must be largely elective in the Senior year, 
substituted for some of those required at the present time. 
Forestry is a very broad and diversified subject. The training 
required for work in one particular branch may be quite dif- 
ferent from that required in another. Thus a man who devotes 
himself to the reproduction, development and growth of timber 
should specialize in silviculture and management, while one 
whose chief attention is given to utilization should specialize 
in lumbering and technology. 
Regarding the third, it is useless to offer advanced work 
unless there are students prepared to take it. In general, such 
work is only open to those who have already completed the 
regular course or what is deemed equivalent in other institutions. 
Fellowships are needed to stimulate advanced work and to 
induce able men to come to Yale and continue along some 
particular line in forestry. 
With the expanded work of the school it is possible that the 
best interests of the profession can be served by opening certain 
courses to men with woods experience who are not college or 
university graduates, but who desire to enter the School as 
special students in order to secure instruction along some 
particular line. 
