.~ A - which prevented a worse out than the 56 per cent reduction imposed. The drastic cut from $352,600.00 for the 1931—32 biennium to $150,000.00 for the current biennium resulted in the discharge of a considerable number of faculty members, office and farm employees. The remaining faculty members, with faith in the future of the School and a clear vision of its possibilities, added to their duties and expanded course offerings to take care of the increasing number of students. This increase in student enrollment at a time when the depression was at its height, was one of the most encouraging factors. Enrollment at the California Polytechnic School has always been, and will probably always continue to be, from the agricultural communities and the smaller towns. At the very time when agricultural income was at its lowest ebb, interest in the school began to climb. Under the changes in administration and the improvement of the curricula, tremendous interest began to be evidenced, and it seems a very safe assumption that had farming income been at a higher level, the School would have been entirely unable to accommodate the students even on a highly selective basis of vocational ability and recommendation. With the farming outlook definitely brighter than it has been for more than 10 years, there appears to be little doubt that the School will experience a 50 per cent increase next fall. Reports are being received daily indicating that in communities which had never before evidenced interest in the California Polytechnic School, from one to four Students are definitely planning to enter the School either at the beginning of the spring semester, which opens January 7, or at the beginning of the fall semester of 1935. At the close of registration for the fall semester of 193N, the School had enrolled 236 young men of an average age of 19 years, approximately 95 per cent of whom had completed high school before entering the Polytechnic School. These students come from 39 of the 58 California counties. ,Of the counties not represented, only ?ve are in agricultural and industrial sections, the rr—————————————————————————————————————4:I--IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIll-IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII