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Hon. Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Bureau of Forestry of the Department of Agriculture, will lecture on "Government Service as a Career" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open to members of the Union only.
After being graduated from Yale in 1889, Mr. Pinchot studied forestry in France, Germany and Switzerland. Later he organized forestry work in Baltimore, and opened an office as a consulting forester. In 1896 he became secretary of the Forestry Commission of the National Academy of Science, and had great influence with President Cleveland in setting aside the 21,000,000 acres of forest reservations.
In 1898 he became chief of the Division of Forestry in the agricultural department at Washington, and has held that position ever since. In 1901 the division became the Bureau of Forestry, and finally in 1907 it was made the "Forest Service" and given the care of the national forests.
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