ANNUAL REPORT 32 THE STATE BOARD 93 EDUCATION 9;; gag PROGRESS pg gig; CALIFORNIA ‘ POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL, SAN mus OBISPO, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY. $252 EFOREWORD: This is the fifth annual report of this type. For the convenience of comparison, the same general index headings are being maintained in this report, as were used in the four previous annual summaries. It is difficult to picture the progress of an institution except in statistical terms, unless one follows the physical improvements and notes the continually finer type of undergraduate and graduate. It is hoped that this report will bring to the members of the State hoard of Education, and others to whom it is made available, a picture of those tangible factors possible of measurement. I. HISTORY The detailed history of the California Polytechnic School has been made available to members of the Board in previous reports, and in their official visit to the campus. Thus, only a few significant dates and changes will be mentioned. First, it is well to recall that the California Polytechnic School was established in l901~~at the turn of the century, and years prior to the general acceptance of popular technical and vocational training. Second, it is important to remember that the nation made rapid strides in the level of popular education between 1903, when classes were started at the San Luis Obispo institution, and 1935. The California Polytechnic School was in advance of its time in 1905, and behind its time in 1933 because the level of employment demand had advanced from high school to college. California Polytechnic School could well have been advanced from high school to college level immediately after the war period, or about when the introduction of more and more machinery beganqto raise the age level for employment from 15 or 16 years to 20 and 21 years. ' In 1955 this fact was recognized, and since that time the California Polytechnic School has become a technical college, on the same level of instruction as the conventional agricultural and mechanics arts colleges