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Wednesday, 23 September

Classes go along well. I have one class at Lockhart Hall, about a mile from Yenching. It is a Sophomore pre-medical class, and has a fine spirit and good English. At ten-thirty all of the Freshman sections of English meet. The afternoons I am spending at the School of Chinese Studies. We are anxious to get things well in shape for the opening of school on 5 October. 

Dorothy at the Institute of Fine Arts to see Denny got an earful on the still unfinished agreement for cooperation between the Insitute and the School of Chinese Studies. Last spring we offered to cooperate with them by allowing their students to take some of our classes, thus saving them the trouble and expense of duplicating our work in a School of Chinese Studeis of their own as the proposed to do. On our part we would have the benefit of reaching an audience that we might not get in touch with so easily otherwise, and certain privileges in connection with other Institute activities. The agreement as to exeactly the extent of cooperation was never very definite, and now they are pressing us hard for lecture [[strikethrough]]s[[/strikethrough]] courses in their place when we are hard put to it to prepare our work for our own students with the extra burdens on all of us at this time. Hummel and Porter and I all have all we can dowithout going outside. They seem to feel we are trying to back out, though, so we are planning to give as much as we can, to take little, and, if things do not clear up, to go our several ways after one year. They can hardly give us very serious competition in the field of Chinese studies, for the groups appealed to are different, and if they can do as well as we and make it unnecessary for us to operate we shall rejoice in being freed to develope new fields of research which now we cannot touch. 

Just before supper we went up to the Tung An Market and bought a Chinese fiddle and a pair of ink jars that match our tea jars and will adorn our several desks. We had a fine foolish time shopping along in the brightly lighted alleys.