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Saturday, 5 September

All morning I was busy getting ready for the final examinations of last year, which come this next week. In the afternoon we did get out to some of the shops, ordered two lanterns for my study, bought a couple bases for the tea jars to stand on, and purchased the brass tea table we have been going to get, for which the Ruby's gave us the money as a wedding gift. These tables consist of trays of brass, with folding six-legged wooden stands. Our tray is 26 1/2 inches in diameter. In the center is a picture of an old man on a a boat playing a lute, and around the edge are dragons and symbolic flowers.

In the evening I donned my dinner suit and went over to William Hung's, where a stag party had been arrnaged for the entertainment of Professor Hornbeck of Harvard, and the influencing of him in favor of Yneching. We areplanning for an affiliation between Harvard and Yenching, and Leighton Stuart is in American now taking up the matter. As Hornbeck is on his way home after six weeks here studying conditions, and as he has been here before and knows something of China, and he he will carry back some kind of a report we wanted to answer some questions he had to ask to show him what the affiliation would mean to both of us. How far we succeeded I do not know. His interests were largely mechanical, that is in the matter of physical equipment now and in the future, the technical arrangements for the care of special students, and so on. At leats we had an interesting evening, and I got some new slants that will help me plan for certain eventualities before they are apt to come up.

The girls do not have their house ready yet, so Louise still lives with us, dressing in Dorothy's little study and sleeping on a cot set up next to the pile of trunks in the courtyard. She has a number of good jobs in line for the winter, and for the present is filling in a couple weeks reading proof on the Leader, our principal newspaper, a job which keeps her busy all afternoon and evening.

I have been exceedingly busy with examinations, student conferences, committee meetings, and the like, and have scarcely got into my library work yet. I shall be glad when we settle into a shcedule and get some sort of rhythm in our lives.