necessary to reserve its type of education to those most capable of benefitting by it. At present, about 95 per cent of the entering freshmen are high school graduates, and all except the vocational curricula are closed to those with less than high school graduation. An increasing number of enrollees are junior college or regular college transfers who seek the type of instruction leading directly to technical employment. Significant steps since 1953 have been acceptance of the work at California Polytechnic for college transfer by all * major colleges, and the delegation by the State Board of Education in 1937, of the administra- tion of the school to the State Bureau of Agricultural Education, a unit of the State Department of Education. Probable development of California Polytechnic in the next few years will be in the direction of adding new occupational fields. The type of training given is most effective in small departments of 40 to 80 students in a major field. The department head may come to personally know all of his students, counsel with them, and recommend these most qualified for employment. The number graduating each year may reasonably be employed in the field for which they have been trained. In the future, it will probably be necessary to limit the enrollment in the "popular" departments of meat animals husbandry, aeronautics, and air conditioning, while building up other present and new fields to about the desirable maximum. * See Section XIV - General Future Needs.