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In summarizing, there are three essentials to adequate graduate 
training: 
(1) A broad knowledge of methods and fundamentals in many 
fields of human endeavor; 
(2) A training in research; and 
(3) Contact with men of inspiration and vision. 
The ideal training would be to have an undergraduate course devoted 
almost entirely to laying a broad foundation. From a group of such 
students, those that show exceptional capacity could then be en¬ 
couraged to take up the graduate work, the first year of which would be 
largely in training and testing of ability in research. If this proved 
satisfactory, encouragement should then be given to go on into still 
more extended endeavors in the research field and into contact with in¬ 
spiring workers in other fields. 
No one department can offer adequate graduate training. Graduate 
institutions are made up of many departments from which the student 
must select the best equipment for his chosen field. 
Educational policy swings like that of a pendulum. In times past 
graduate training was considered to be little more than an increased 
amount of general education; then the pendulum swung the other way 
and it became too technical and specialized; in fact, the pendulum swung 
so far that specialization was carried to such an extent in the under¬ 
graduate courses as to almost ruin the student with a superficial special¬ 
ization on a totally inadequate foundation. 
We have as yet only partially recovered from this educational orgy; 
therefore in che presei o time, if a student who has carried specialization 
to extreme in the undergraduate course presents himself for graduate 
work, it is absolutely essential that the error be corrected, and that his 
graduate work largely make up for deficiencies in his breadth of training. 
With the best of efforts he can never be as well equipped as the one who 
took his broad training in the fundamentals first and brought that 
knowledge and breadth of viewpoint to his specialization, but he can be 
immeasurably helped. 
The ideal training for the future entomologist would be a broad and 
comprehensive undergraduate course, a year of specialized training in 
research, two or three years of assist ant ship under an inspiring leader, 
preferably a different one from the one under which the graduate work 
was taken, and then enrollment in some other standard graduate insti¬ 
tution for contact with another group of inspiring men and the com¬ 
pletion of his doctorate. The major portion of the burden of his re- 
