The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-19
FUN AND INsTRUCTToN.

How They Mingle Fun and Instruc-
at the forestry school connected with
Yale university. Tramping 20 or more
miles a day in the summer work,
swinging axes, measuring tree growths,
learning the names of the multitude Of
trees in American forests, camping out
for weeks at a time and leading in the
field as much of a camping party life.
as school life are greatly different
from the ordinary routine of the coll
#lege undergraduate. That it is a popu-5
lar party the Yale system is shown by
the rapid growth of this school since
1900, when 1t was founded the
direction Of Prof Henry S. Graves.
This year in the classes Of the school
there are men from 50 different uniyer-
stiles and colleges. the stiff require
ments of the school making it difficult
for any but college graduates who have
been proficient in mathematics and
science to take the two-years' course.
Open-air life, an attractive two-years'
work and the practical certainty Of
securing a paying position on gradua
ton have made the Yale forestry school
the notable success it has become in
the four yearsit was instituted.
That the work Of the Yale forest
school has q decidedly practical bear
ing on timber cultivation and preserva-
tion in this country is shown by the
widespread occupation of the ~ gradll-
ates now in actual service The great
majority of these men are with the
government, working under the new
bureau of forestry. One of the Yale
graduate foresters is now state forester
for Connecticut. Another man is state
forester for Massachusetts,. Two Of the
Yale men are the instructors in the re-
Gently established school of forestry at
Harvard Another is instructor in for
estry at the Iowa state university.
Two more are full professors of the
subject in two other educational insti-i
tutfons. It was feather in the cap of
the Yale forestry school when one
graduate received the appointment of
head Of the bureau Of the forestry Of.
the Hawaiian Islands. There has re-
lcently cropped out a considerable de-
mand for trained foresters in the Phil
ippine islands property of: the United
States, and several Of the Yale forestry.
school graduates are now in service Ia
those islands. AS, there are some
!40,0OO,OoO acres of government forest
! land in, the PHILIPPINES, the Yale school
is, likely to be drained OF graduates to,
supply the demand.
| Showing howawidely known has be-
come that fact that Yale is training.
men for their work, the officers Of the
school say that this year there is a
man from Cape Town, South Africa, in
the school, sent by the British govern
ment to study the American way of
dealing r with forest problems. The
South African problems are more like
those in the Philippines met by this
country than like the questions the
British have solved so remarkably in
India. Another student in this years
Yale forestry school is from the tech
biological school of Stockholm, Sweden.
There are also. several Canadians and
men from the Northwest timber couh-'
try, who will go back to the big lumber
districts with the Yale plan of dealing
with the preservation of forests. So
far there has not been any great de-
mand for trained foresters from private
concerns, but there have been some,
and there has been an increase on the
part. Of big timber companies in the
work the Yale school is doing. 1t is ex-
pected that within a fewFyears there
will be annually filled from Yale a
number of positions as superintendents
of private forest reservations.
while the two years course in the
Yale forestry school has serious aim
Ito tSaia usasnS man. fay Liza Eark IN