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problem in the School at Peking will probably be to adapt a monastery or an official residence to the purposes of housing the American staff and a large library. There is no doubt that the Chinese buildings of which we may find ourselves the owners will be capable of slight changes of interior arrangements which will make them not only habitable but comfortable, and if we endeavor to preserve the outward character of the architecture and keep the carefully thought-out grouping of the buildings, the result should be in harmony with our surroundings and a dignified center for the artistic and scholarly life of China.