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13.

[[underlined]]TRAINING OF STAFF[[/underlined]]

While the activities of the American School may properly begin with the foundation of a library at headquarters, superintended by the Director in person, and with the dispatch of competent archaeologists to the field, provision must be made for training young men for future service in the School and the perpetuation of the staff.
It is this latter question which I made the subject of many conversations with those persons in China and Europe who were most competent to give helpful advice.
As a result of these deliberations, my recommendation is that the Director choose and the committee approve three young men who desire to enter into the work of the School and who guarantee to continue the course of training laid out for them during one year at least. These young men should be chosen, if possible, from among the recent graduates of some American college or university whose degree is a guaranty of good general training. If they have specialized in the fine arts or archaeology the advantage would be obvious, but that should not be a prime requisite of their selection.
They will proceed at once to Paris, where they will enter the classes in the Ecole des Langues Vivantes Orientales designated by the Director in consultation with the French Professors.
A year will be spent upon the preliminaries of the