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[[underline heading on left margin over two lines]] SITES FOR SCHOOL [[/underline]]  
In visiting the sites which were said to be possibly available by gift or purchase for the School headquarters, it finally became evident that I should have had to make a definite proposal that would have exceeded my authority.  I did not consider the places which were offered for sale, hoping that the Chinese will renew their tentative proposal to make us a gift of some large compound with buildings.  My efforts to find a site within the Legation Quarter are reported in the chapter devoted to the location of the School.
[[underline header in left margin over two lines]] CHINESE OPINION [[/underline]]
Conversations with Chinese officials concerning the American School were unavoidably drawn out, and of a fragmentary nature and they detained me longer than I wished.  But as the result of them has proved to be the entire approval of our plans by the government, offers to cooperate when we desire, and the tentative offer of land and buildings worth many thousands of dollars, I do not regret the three months from September twentieth to December twentieth during which I made Peking my headquarters. Of this time, three weeks were spent in Manchuria, four weeks saw little work accomplished owing to illness, two were used up in waiting for the President to set a definite date for my promised interview.
[[Underline]]FOREIGN OPINION IN PEKING[[/Underline]] The work of Mr. McCormick in connection with the China Monuments Society had in a measure prepared the way among foreign residents for our larger and more comprehensive plans.  I found that the younger