ANNUAL REPORT 22 THE STATE BOARD QE'EDECATION 9§_THE PROGRESS 92 SEE CALIFORNIA FOREWORD: This is the sixth annual report of this type, and one whidi again shows tremenduous physical and educational development at the state's technical college. For those who care to make comparisons with reports of previous years, index headings are used in this report, with minor variations for outstanding new developments. of new members of the State Board of Education and others who read this report, who are not entirely familiar with the history and present scope of this state college. I. POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA -.- JANUARY, 191m the same Considerable detail is given here, especially for the information HISTORY Each annual report has touched upon the history of the California Polytech- nic School, bringing the chronology up to date and touching upon certain past phases most pertinent to the particular developments of the current preceding year. This section of the report deals historically with past climaxes or crises. The year of 1939 may be characterized as a “crisis” year in the history of this state technical college -~ a crisis period because having arrived at what might be considered majority, or an adult collegiate status after having been for decades either a secondary school or on the fringes of it, the institution needs further encouragement rather than discouragement. With the greatest issue in the history of the institution now before the State Board of Education -~ whether outstanding men who complete a four-year technical college course shall receive the same collegiate degree they would have received with a similar amount of time and study at other institutions administered by the State Board Of Education -- the history and other phases of the report must frequently touch upon this factor. California Polytechnic School has passed through many crises in.its nearly hO years of existence. The very fact that for many years what was then a state technical high school survived in a world of academic and college preparatory secondary education, meant that it had the substance and purpose which brought it