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the location, abundance, and importance of the raw materials on which these 

 are based. Elementary surveying has been included in spite of the fact that 

 the work of forest products technologists will ordinarily lie indoors, because 

 of the fact that some knowledge of the use of surveying instruments and 

 surveying practice may be of direct value in connection with their regular 

 work. Manual training in the form of wood work, forge, and machine shop 

 is suggested both to train the students to use their hands and to give them 

 through actual contact a first-hand knowledge of some of the more fcnportant 

 tools of their profession. Enough of the practice of forestry has been included 

 to enable the technologist to connect wood and other forest products with the 

 growing forest and with the general principles of forest conservation. The 

 principles of political economy and their practical application in industrial 

 organization and management have been included to enable the technologist 

 to correlate his technical specialty with economic conditions and to rise to 

 administrative positions obviously requiring a knowledge of such matters. In 

 the committee's judgment a clear understanding of the principles of economics 

 and of their practical application in business life is almost as essential for the 

 successful engineer or chemist in forest products as a thorough technical 

 knowledge of his specialty. 



The value of the other subjects included, because of their direct bearing in 

 the field of forest products, is believed to be self-evident. The number of hours 

 which should be devoted to each subject is, of course, a highly debatable point, 

 and the committee's suggestions in this respect are decidedly tentative. It 

 will be noted that the total number suggested (144 in four years) coincides 

 very closely to that proposed by the committees on undergraduate and graduate 

 courses' in forestry. 



The tremendous amount of ground to be covered has made it impossible to 

 offer any opportunity for a choice of electives during the first four years. 

 Beginning with the third year, however, two slightly divergent branches are 

 suggested, depending on whether the individual desires to specialize in the 

 engineering or the chemical end of the work. This specialization will naturally 

 be still more marked in the fifth and subsequent years, during which the man 

 should devote his time to advanced work in the particular field he plans to 

 enter. It is also possible that those showing special aptitude early in the 

 course might, with the consent of their faculty adviser, be allowed some choice 

 of subjects prior to this time. The first two years are the same for both lines 

 of work (engineering and chemical), and have been made to agree as nearly 

 as practicable with the courses most commonly required of students in the 

 various schools of engineering, science, and forestry. This will give the stu- 

 dent a substantial foundation for almost any line of technical work, and at 

 the same time will facilitate changing his course should he decide later that 

 he prefers to enter some other line. 



At this point the committee desires to emphasize again the importance of 

 the fifth year for those who aspire to leadership in either the scientific or 

 business world. This is particularly true in the field of research, for leader- 

 ship in which the completion of work leading to the degree of doctor of philos- 

 ophy is highly desirable. And for those who can spare the time, additional 

 collegiate work in the liberal arts is decidedly worth while. The committee 

 recommends as an excellent combination a four-year course leading to the de- 

 gree of bachelor of arts, so arranged as to include at least the first two years 

 of the special course suggested and followed by the remaining two years of 

 technical work leading to the degree of bachelor of science. 



One difficulty in the introduction of a special course in forest products will 

 be the tendency to construct it out of a combination of the courses already in 



