150 REPORT OF THE FORESTRY COMMITTEE 



thorough foundation in subjects of general educational character was clearly 

 realized. The representatives of the conference advocated a collegiate training 

 in history, economics, English and foreign languages, as well as in botany, geology, 

 and other auxiliary scientific subjects." 



"Since it is impossible to give an adequate training in these subjects and in 

 technical forestry in less than four years of collegiate work, the conference placed 

 itself definitely on record that the technical schools should be of collegiate grade 

 and of a rank equivalent to that established by the Carnegie Foundation. It was 

 agreed that the course should comprise at least four years of undergraduate work. 

 In the case of post-graduate schools, there should be at least one year of post- 

 graduate work in technical forestry, making a five-year course altogether; and 

 no post-graduate degree should be granted to a student who has not had at least 

 two years' work in technical forestry either in the graduate course or the graduate 

 and undergraduate courses combined." 



Forestry education in the United States has developed to its present position 

 in the past fifteen years. Within this period twenty-two educational institutions 

 have organized forestry schools or departments of forestry and give four-year 

 undergraduate courses or graduate courses that lead to a degree in forestry.f 

 Within the same period ten institutions have developed undergraduate courses 

 covering from one to three years in forestry subjects, and thirty have developed 

 ranger courses, short courses for special students, or have added some subjects in 

 forestry to their agricultural or horticultural courses, or as optional in their 

 courses in the arts and sciences. 



From the examination of the latest catalogs of the various American institu- 

 tions where forestry is taught, it appears that the institutions named in Table I 

 offer a four-year undergraduate course in forestry, or are partly or wholly engaged 

 in graduate work. They are either graduate schools, with a faculty of specialists 

 in the various departments of forestry or are departments of universities and 

 agricultural colleges. In the former all the work is of a technical nature, the 

 general educational requirements having been fully covered in the undergraduate 

 work required for admittance. In the latter the work in general education and 

 technical forestry go hand in hand and cover an undergraduate course of four 

 years. Some of these institutions offer a year of post-graduate work in technical 

 forestry, making a five-year course altogether, in which there is at least two 

 years' work in technical forestry in the undergraduate and graduate work com- 

 bined. 



We find that the institutions offering professional training as interpreted by 

 the Conference of Forest Schools are as follows. The table shows the institutions 

 in which the work is wholly of a graduate character, those in which it is wholly 

 undergraduate, and those which offer both undergraduate and graduate courses. 



t This does not include the institutions which give a degree in forestry for less than 

 four years of undergrduate work. 



