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ful in overseeing the gangs and in making photographs, rubbings and catalogues.  At such times as there is no such work going on, the Director will give them problems like the making of reports on the monuments and antiquities of Peking, describing and cataloguing private collections, making rubbings, photographs, and measurements of such material as is at hand.  One or more of them may well be in charge of the correspondence with the missionaries in different Provinces concerning the monuments in their localities.
In this way it will not be long before the students who undertake the training preparatory to work on the staff of the School will become familiar with the problems which are presented, and will find themselves a part of its more productive life, able to fulfil certain duties and undertake responsibilities.
For the first year, that spent in Paris, the student will receive one thousand dollars from which he will pay transportation from America and living expenses in France.  The second year he will receive the same sum, from which he will be able to purchase transportation to Peking, and on which he can live for a year at the headquarters of the School where lodging, books and teaching will no longer be an expense.  At the School he will find the cost of living materially lessened by the fact that many household expenses will be pooled with those of his companions.
By the end of the second year at least, and probably before that time, the students will have discovered each his