_2- through period after period of legislative budget apportionment. From 1901 when the institution was OStablished, until about 1925, the crises were principally financial. Durinthhat period, employers of its graduates were generally satisfied with brains and brawn, and cared little for the documentary evidence. The school filled a unique place in the state, where most secondary education was non-vocational in nature. In 1923, the post-war economy period almost wrecked the very essence of the school. Budget slashing necessitated the sale of quantities of livestock, the very presence of which for training youths in animal husbandry operations was fundamental to the institution. Enrollment dropped below 100 ~- a sorry situation in a state of several million persons. But the school weathered this crisis, re~established its flocks and herds, and continued until 1953, when a similar economy program was instituted. At that time, however, the crisis was met in a different fashion. Instead of curbing opportunity, the State Department of Education began to EEEEEE it by placing at California Polytechnic the headquarters for the entire vocational agriculture program of the state. Courses of high school level gave way to courses of technical college level. Young, virile faculty personnel was brought in. Service work was established for the state vocational program in the district secondary schools, and contacts were deve10ped which brought attention of prospective students to the institution. All this was done with a very limited budget. Again, with the crisis of 1933, the enrollment had dropped to a low point, but with the re-dedioation of the college to occupational training on a higher level, and with the fine spirit engendered by the new faculty and administrative regime, a solid development began, both in physical p1a.t and in its fine student body. Since about 1930, parents whose boys were attending California Polytechnic School had asked "Why do you limit your wonk to three years, and curtail the opportunity of my son to get a technical position which requires a bachelor of