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From First Annual Report {1899) : 



3fctdenf5, Teadnncr Force and Coarses. 



No special effort having been made to advertise the existence of this entirely 

 novel institution, the number of students registered as regular students of the Col- 

 lege in the first year has been small — namely, one in the freshman class, one in the 

 sophomore class, and two in the junior class of the four-year course. 



This does not, however, comprise the students who actually attended the 

 forestry courses of the College, for through the first term thirty-one took 

 advantage of the three forestry courses that were given during the term and in the 

 four forestry courses of the second term sixteen, eight, six and five students respec- 

 tively were entered, or, excluding duplication of names in the four different courses, 

 twenty-six students were pursuing professional courses of the junior year, besides 

 the two freshmen and sophomore students of the college. 



These additional students have come mainly from the Department of Political 

 Economy and from the Colleges of Engineering and of Agriculture. Of the lat- 

 ter a number have expressed their desire, after graduating from the College of 

 Agriculture, to complete the full course of the College of Forestry, with a view of 

 graduating. The fact that no entrance fees are required in the College of Agricul- 

 ture, while in the College of Forestry for all except students from the State of New 

 York such fees are exacted, seems to have suggested this arrangement. 



The combination of the two courses is undoubtedly to be encouraged, since 

 managers of forest properties will often be called upon to employ agricultural 

 knowledge, while farm estates have almost invariably smaller or larger forest prop- 

 erties attached. 



Of the four regularly inscribed students, two were from the State of New York 

 and two from the State of Illinois. 



In the absence of sufficient appropriations and in view of the probability that 

 the full complement of the teaching force, as provided by law, would not be 

 required at once, no registry for senior year studies being anticipated, only one 

 instructor was appointed in the person of Assistant Professor Filibert Roth. For 

 similar reasons the position of forest manager was combined temporarily with that 

 of the assistant professor, and no other assistant or employes have been installed, 

 excepting a stenographer and clerk, who is paid by the hour of actual service. 



In addition to the regular courses on timberphysics, in which ten students of 

 engineering and one student of forestry received instructions during the first term, 

 Assistant Professor Roth was called upon to give three lectures on " Wood as a 



