Thoro is probably no one who cannot remember the 

 apprehension with which he looked forward to o or tain fields 

 of study, v;hich hed to bo untfertelron when an education was 

 bein.s oou^iit. Sone troublesome subject such as higher 

 arithmetic, rrrr.mnor, Victory, music, or spelling was always 

 loowinr: up across the horizon cs oowothin.^, well nigh, 

 ^insurmountable, unint creating, and unprofitable. In the 

 fields of higher education those so ore! n -7 obstacles and 

 difficulties become more numerous; Juct r.3 tho -;roat poa'cs 

 become more numerous When tho higher regions of tho Sierras 

 aro reached. 3ut tho ronl noholer doeo not allow any of 

 those heights to stand in hio v:ay but finds his greatest 

 enjoyment, end incidentally hio grontost benefit and profit, 

 in mastering over:'' subject or coxirro v hlch comes in his 

 :v>rtioulur rr.n^o of investigation. 



How r. forest Rcr, :or doesn't orotond to be a c'.oop 

 scholar or a "boos v.-orn". This sife of tho service is being 

 looked r.ftor by tho technical men. T?ut it is well 'oiovm to us, 

 that an able I\nn-or is ejected to be very much of an all 

 rround man. And p.oove ell things he fi ooa need, is breadth 

 of view. This is one of the important thirds to be frotten 

 from tho Reading Co->irae. Inoidentf lly, I mif^ht arid; that a 

 considerable r.raount of that mystery, 'vhlch v/e conflict or 

 envelopes tho technics! nan, may be dispelled vhon n 

 realise thet they study these sane boo'cs at Yale, Harvrrd, 



ichi-tan, end the other Toroctry Schools. And r.loo >vhen 

 c ':nor uhat before the correction of elimination jepors is 

 co voletod a conoid orable amount of roviowinj of -those same 

 boo'cs vill have to be resorted to. This is es it ehoald bo 

 Bince it rofjuiros adciitlonr.l thought en? a elilr.in- up of 

 weros, and io o source of plorsure to every tcciinical torn 

 vho is ac.iii-.med the tcs'; of loo!:in.-; ovor tho ;* :>ors. 



One of tho o>ooial features of the Course 10, that 

 it has not only a be^i^r.ir. - 'jut rleo an eiu-inj. T,\o tests 

 vrhich folio--- t"ie conplotion oi' or.oh boo": aro no- intended to 

 force oi roful study buv t'loy form a natural conclusion to tho 

 courco anc" pive a nan so cthin-; of u .joasuro of his ability 

 to read and cesiMilato. This courco affords at lei.st one 

 special opportunity. Jnli'.;o *aost oc-uc; tional o.'/.vorcuiiitios, 

 there is nothing conpulaory t')0ut it, tnd no penalty in^oood 

 even if utter feiltire to understand tho boo};s ie er^orioncod. 

 ?hic io e condi'cion, .;:iic'.i io vory unlike the oci.linr of a 

 Lookout -?oint or a difficult x>aK in orcer to r.coomjlish 

 sono very noooseary jioce of ^or'c. In this course, an 

 ^ . ort unity vresonts itself ^hiC:i cm only result profitably. 



To ial:e tho benefit to bo derived noro .->lnin t 

 lot us re ic :bor thr.t much no '-o ould onjoy n tri." ovor tho 

 trails 'iuh '.r. Jravos or - iV.i ."lr. Fir.ohot, there are a 

 comparatively few rion in ho l-'orost Service v;ho crn expect 

 to even oeet tho-n or see them. But they have fjivon to every- 

 one, through these boo'ce of t.hoirs, the opportunity of 



