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study of our trees and forests; to^ solve the difficult 

 problems of the influence of fire, grazing, and excessive 

 lumbering on forests, as well as the problems connected 

 with the protection of the head waters of rivers; and 

 to carry on and direct the practical management of 

 forests of every character and size. In order to do 

 this work intelligently and successfully a thorough 

 special training in forestry is required, in addition to 

 a general education. The forest school has been made 

 a graduate department, to which only college gradu- 

 ates are admitted without examination, in order to 

 attract educated men to forestry and to produce men 

 of the highest possible training for the work of devel- 

 oping the profession. The fact, however, was not 

 overlooked that there is a class of work for which so 

 thorough a training is required, and the summer school 

 is especially designed to furnish instruction sufKciently 

 comprehensive for this work." 



Notwithstanding the high standing required for 

 admission, the registration has increased from a begin- 

 ning of five to sixty-three at present. The students 

 have come from thirty-three of the United States and 

 from the Philippines, Japan, South Africa, Canada, 

 and Sweden. In one respect, says President Hadley, 

 the Yale Forest School is a model to the other depart- 

 ments of the university, in that it is in active touch 

 with the demands of practical life and the opportunities 

 for ernployment therein. It gives the students of Yale 

 an assurance that side by side with their training in 

 general culture and public spirit, they are adapting 

 themselves to speedy usefulness in the complex organi- 

 zation of modern commercial life. 



The Biltmore Forest School opened in 1897, and is 

 therefore the oldest in the United States. Although 

 not connected with an established educational institii- 



