THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



year undergraduate course, and their stu- 

 dents receive their degrees at the same time 

 as other members of the University who 

 entered at the same time with them. The 

 graduate schools require a college degree, or 

 its equivalent in certain subjects, before they 

 will receive a student. The men who have 

 completed their courses have usually, there- 

 fore, pursued more extensive and more 

 advanced studies in forestry, are better 

 trained, and are themselves older and more 

 ready to accept the responsibilities which 

 forestry brings upon them. For these rea- 

 sons, the graduate school training is by far 

 the more desirable, in my opinion. 



The subjects required for entrance to a 

 graduate forest school should include at 

 least one full year in college botany, cover- 

 ing the general morphology, histology, and 

 physiology of plants, one course each in 

 geology, physics, inorganic chemistry, 



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