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Purely technical or engineering training will not then 

 suffice the man who aspires to leadership in railroading 

 or in any like calling; he must be schooled in legal, 

 political, and economic science as well. 



There is no profession I know of that requires wider 

 knowledge than does forestry. All the things which 

 the best railroad man needs, the successful forester 

 must have, with more besides. Since he deals scien- 

 tifically with the soil and a product of it, he must be 

 much of a geologist, botanist, zoologist, and chemist. 

 The harvesting and manufacture of his crop calls for 

 no mean engineering skill and knowledge. The 

 managing of his property is likely to call for legal 

 knowledge. And so on through many other essentials 

 in his education, which only a real university can give 

 him. 



Another and most important reason why forestry 

 should be a university course and not a separate school 

 is that the forester is above all a man with practical 

 problems to handle — a man who must come in contact 

 with men. So he needs the democratizing influence 

 of university life, the broadening of his point of view 

 from association with men from everywhere and with 

 different aims in life. Without this breadth of view 

 how could foresters properly handle the many prob- 

 lems discussed before this Congress ? It will take men 

 far more catholic than those who academically settle 

 affairs on the basis of knowledge acquired in their 

 back yards to give a square deal to all the interests 

 concerned in the creation of forest reserves and in the 

 granting of timber and grazing permits on them; to 

 devise schemes of fire prevention and extinction for 

 all parts of our overburned country; to insure the 

 growing of the right kind of trees in the right places ; 

 to improve our already expert logging and milling 



