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sound advice on language training for the future staff that I have used it as the basis of my recommendations on the subject, which will be found in another chapter.
[[underlined]]THE CHINESE Y. M. C. A.[[/underlined]]
From Mr. F. S. Brockman, the National Secretary of the Chinese Young Men's Christian Association, I obtained some valuable suggestions on the possibility for preserving Chinese monuments. Mr. Brockman had been stirred up by Mr. McCormick's campaign on the subject, and wished to know what measures the School was going to take. It was at his suggestion that I agreed to give an interview to one of the editors of the North China Herald in which I spoke of the work planned by the American School, and the great disappointment felt by foreigners, coming to China for study, who find so much priceless evidence wantonly destroyed. I took occasion to mention the propaganda sent out by the China Monument Society, and to express my hope that the Chinese government would soon find a way to put a stop to the vandalism. 
     In this same connection I wrote an article for the Chinese Y. M. C. A. magazine called "Progress", which has a wide circulation through the Provinces and is read by large numbers of the younger generation. As the magazine contains no religious
propaganda, and keeps carefully free from political entanglements, it seemed a proper organ through which we might try to reach Chinese opinion. The article was translated into Chinese, and photographs of the evidences of destruction from
the grottoes of Lung Men were added to it.
[[underlined]]Mr. Brockman[[/underlined]]   Mr.  Brockman has little time for archeological or historical research, but is deeply in sympathy with