October 14, 1898.] 



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ing a fall appreciation of all the bearings of 

 the subject, under which head forest ad- 

 ministration, forest valuation and statics, 

 history, statistics and forestry politics may 

 be grouped. 



The assistants would find ample work in 

 aiding the professors in the lecture room, on 

 excursions or practical demonstrations and 

 in carrying on special investigations. 



In spite of the present deficiency in the 

 faculty, which is, moreover, on account of 

 the deficient appropriations — $10,000 for 

 the first year — limited to the director and 

 only one assistant professor, who acts also 

 as forest manager, the courses of studies 

 announced have been nevertheless made 

 full, comprising twelve courses, the expec- 

 tation being that no students for the senior 

 year will be ready before the deficiency in 

 the faculty may be supplied under increased 

 appropriations . 



The course of studies leading to the de- 

 gree of Bachelor in the Science of Forestry 

 has been made to cover four years, corre- 

 sponding in this particular also not to the 

 general practice, but to the most advanced 

 ideas of German educators in forestry. In 

 this course the first two years are entirely 

 given up to studies of the fundamental 

 sciences, while forestry subjects and sup- 

 plemental studies are left for the last two 

 years. This arrangement has the advan- 

 tage that forestry students may lay their 

 foundations at any other institution, and, 

 also, should any entering upon the course 

 for some reason desire to abandon their 

 purpose they will not have wasted any 

 time on the specialty, but find themselves 

 prepared for any other study involving 

 natural sciences as a basis. 



The required fundamental and supple- 

 mental courses comprise altogether about 

 1,270 hours, to which 450 hours' supple- 

 mental work are added as elective but de- 

 sirable, while the forestry branches repre- 

 sent about 600 hours, of which 130 are 



optional, making an average of about 17 

 hours per week of required and elective 

 work. 



In the fundamental branches, botany, 

 chemistry and geology, with allied sciences, 

 require the foremost attention, while a con- 

 siderable amount of time is given to mathe- 

 matics, entomology, political economy and 

 engineering, especially map-making and 

 road-building. It is also proposed to add 

 a course on pisciculture and venery, since 

 the future forest managers, at least on the 

 State property, will undoubtedly have 

 charge of the taking care of fish and game, 

 which generally or often form parts of a 

 forest property. 



While these full courses are designed to 

 equip, as completely as maybe, managers of 

 large properties on which wood-cropping is 

 to be carried on as a business, the College 

 will also endeavor to satisfy other classes 

 of students who desire only a more or less 

 cursory knowledge of the subject or some 

 of its branches, such as students of political 

 economy, or owners of timber lands, who 

 wish to practice at least silviculture. 

 Finally, the requirement of the law, which 

 prescribes that the College shall impart the 

 results of the management of the demon- 

 stration forest, will be construed to mean 

 that the function of the College is to pull 

 up the stumps of ignorance regarding for- 

 estry wherever they present themselves ; 

 the University Extension spirit will prevail. 



Later, it may also establish summer 

 schools designed to educate foremen and 

 under- foresters in the principles of forestry, 

 an educational move which is as much 

 needed as that for the training of forest 

 managers, for which the College is originally 

 designed to provide. 



The one drawback under which the Col- 

 lege will labor at first and for some time to 

 come is the absence of object lessons in the 

 field, the demonstration of principles ap- 

 plied in practice. To be sure, a demonstra- 



