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profession to a degree far beyond its present 

 attainment. The advance of modern scientific 

 methods of treating the ills of mankind has 

 already, forced the issue upon medical train- 

 ing. That inadequate preparation of nurses 

 and exploitation of them by so-called training 

 schools will be eliminated is an inevitable nest 

 step. A nurse should have a liberal, broad 

 education in language, history and the social 

 and physical sciences; and she, like the physi- 

 cian and dentist, should keep up with develop- 

 ments in her own and allied professions. 

 Carried out in this way nursing becomes a 

 dignified calling demanding for success a com- 

 prehensive university training. 



The school of nursing and health is to be 

 made a high-grade institution, not only for 

 training nurses, but for preparing women to 

 do sanitary and social work in both town and 

 country. It will have three kinds of courses 

 and students. 



1. A three-year course for nurses, including 

 systematic instruction and cooperative work in 

 the hospital. This course will lead to a di- 

 ploma in nursing. 



2. A five-year course leading to a degree, in- 

 cluding two years of study in the fundamental 

 sciences in the university. This is planned to 

 train a higher class of institutional officers, 

 teachers and sanitarians. 



3. Special courses for graduate nurses from 

 other hospitals and schools. 



The usual preparation demanded of all in- 

 coming students will be required for admis- 

 sion to the first two courses. A certificate 

 from a recognized hospital or school will ad- 

 mit to the special courses. 



The staff of instructors has been selected, 

 which will be aided by the professors in the 

 medical college. The director of the school is 

 Miss Laura Logan, a graduate of Acadia Col- 

 lege and of Columbia University and formerly 

 of the Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City. 

 Fourteen instructors constitute the present 

 faculty of the school, not including the mem- 

 bers of the medical and other university facul- 

 ties who give the instruction in chemistry, 

 biology, anatomy, physiology, economics, soci- 

 ology and general subjects. A noteworthy fea- 

 ture is the appointment of a trained psycholo- 



gist to give instruction in a subject recognized 

 more and more as invaluable to the physician 

 and nurse. 



More and more the university is offering op- 

 portunities for the higher education of 

 women, following the educational policy of 

 President Dabney. In 1905 the college for 

 teachers was launched, and in 1914 the school 

 of household arts was made a department of 

 the university. The school of nursing and 

 health is therefore a consistent development. 



PRACTICAL WORK FOR STUDENTS OF 



THE NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE 



OF FORESTRY 



The forty-three juniors of the State College 

 of Forestry at Syracuse, who have five months 

 between their junior and senior years for 

 practical work, are scattered literally to the 

 four corners of the continent in all fields of 

 forestry work. It is the policy of the college 

 of forestry to give its students the maximum 

 amount of sound, practical training in their 

 four-year course. Too often college students 

 waste their summer vacations. At the end of 

 the freshman year the boys are helped to get 

 into practical work with lumber companies, 

 landscape concerns and wherever there are 

 openings for hard work with experience. The 

 entire sophomore summer of three months is 

 spent in camp on Cranberry Lake. This camp 

 is as much a part of the four-year course as 

 the mathematics or chemistry taught in the 

 college. The junior year then closes on May 

 1 and the senior year does not open until Oc- 

 tober 1, giving the juniors five months for 

 practical work along forestry lines. Many of 

 the boys in the college of forestry are earning 

 their own way and this period of five months 

 not only gives them opportunity for securing 

 a lot of valuable experience but it means suffi- 

 cient funds for carrying them through their 

 final year in college. 



Practically every one of the juniors in the 

 college of forestry is working during this sum- 

 mer vacation in some phase of forestry. Eight 

 of them are with the United States Forest 

 Service on national forests, both in the east 

 and the west. These fellows will be engaged 

 on look-out work to detect forest fires, in the 



