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6. We should limit the group of technical foresters to men who have hart at 

 loast one year of graduate instruction. 



7. Leaders of research, men who add to the supply of knowledge which our 

 growing profession requires, should be trained not less than five to seven years, 

 and every school should always urge its best men to return for graduate work. 



This is the goal toward which we are working, holding before us always the 

 conception that the foresters of to-morrow, like those of yesterday, must not 

 only be men of sound training but they must also be imbued with the lofty 

 idealism and the spirit of service for which our profession is and always has 

 been renowned. 



F. F. MOON, Chairman. 



R. C. BRYANT. 



J. A. FERGUSON. 



W. B. HASTINGS. 



DISCUSSION. 



Several speakers emphasized the need for the forest schools to offer instruc- 

 tion to men who desired work along particular lines or in special subjects 

 closely related to forestry which can be given better at a forest school than in 

 a college of engineering. But it was clearly brought out that students taking 

 only such work were not to be regarded as bona tide foresters. To be recog- 

 nized as a forester, the student must satisfactorily pass at least the minimum 

 amount of work that the school has set up. 



It was further suggested that were the forest schools to be regarded 

 more truly as professional schools than some now are, it would help to foster 

 in the students the professional viewpoint. To this end the ideal forest school 

 should be regarded not as a graduate school but rather as a school of applied- 

 science. 



