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It is plain that the future American School in Peking is looked upon abroad as a friendly institution prepared to share the labor of an immense field where the workers are few, and where to succeed there must be a community of ideas and free exchange of material. We are welcomed as co-workers who will come with a full sense of the importance of the problems and who will be able to attack new fields which, in many cases, have hitherto been closed for political or other reasons. 
This report will be found to contain a multitude of suggestions and recommendations for future work which I offer with the understanding that it would be impossible to attempt all of many of them at the start. The range of country and of subjects touched is so great that I noted almost every field which suggested itself, believing that your Committee would, in this way, be better able to judge of the activities which I single out for immediate consideration. The plans should be scrutinized, and their proper sequence and relative importance be determined, in the light of the tentative arrangements which I have prepared.
Going from Europe to the East, with the encouragement of the European scholars and a fuller understanding of my task, it became evident to me that our work from the beginning must be of a kind to inspire confidence and to prove that anything begun by us will be undertaken and carried through to the end with scientific accuracy. For this reason I have give detailed attention to that part of my report which discusses the initial  steps to be taken by the School, and the choice and training of the staff. 
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