F O R E W A R D This eighth annual report of the California Polytechnic school to the State Board of Education continues a policy established in 1933 when the institution was made a direct administrative branch of the State Department of Education. The current report, although more condensed than in some previous years when formative steps required explanation to the board, is a complete and comprehensive summary of the school‘s activities and accomplishments during the past year. A world crisis such as the present one brings into question all of our institutions. It calls for a re-examination of existing farm, industrial and educational programs. Despite the present world—wide condition of uncertainity, the California Polytechnic school is in a unique and enviable position as an educational insitution. When many other higher educational institutions are frantically trying to adjust their curricula to continue their place in a world which has at least temporarily outgrown the purely academic program, the California Polytechnic school is fortunately providing the very type of training so valuable to the total war effort - and is doing it on a large scale without having to alter in any way the educational philosophy which has been the uns swerving aim of this institution for the thirty~nine years of its service to California. BeCause this institution was already equipped with the facilities and the educational pattern capable of turning out skilled agricultural and industrial n l —