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Bill Pettus had asked him to give a course at the school and he had declined, but suggested that he would be willing to meet a small group of serious students once a week for a seminar in Chinese art, especially paitning. He talked it over with me, I again with Wm.B., and it fell to my lot to get the group together. During this past week he asked me to come in one morning to go over the corrections and changes he had made in his manuscript and the new additions to it, and at that time we completed our final arrangements. The group the finally met consisted of [[strikethrough]][[illegible]][[/illegible]][[strikethrough]] Arthur Hummel, Alan Priest, Howard Hollis, Mary Ferguson, Mr. Chang (Dr. Ferguson's secretary), and myself. Carl Bishop was invited but was not well, and at the last minute Lucius Porter had to stay home becasue of a heavy cold and the coldness of the day. We took up the matter of the most efficient way of getting at literary references, and got some good suggestions from Dr. Feguson's extensive experience. 

Sunday, 31 January
Another breakfast party today, with Dr. and Mrs. Robertson, Dr. and Mrs. Eastman, Eleanor, and Mr. Wagner. Mr. Wagner stayed after the others were gone, and we had a long visit, and another little lunch. He is an interesting chap, studying Chinese on his own for the sake of engaging later in commerce. He has lived in a Chinese Modammadan mosque with the priests, and done some other novel stunts.  He ate as if he had not had a good meal for a long time, and I fear he has not, for his money is not too much. He is, needless to say perhaps, German. His outlook on life is sincere, and his appreciation of beauty excellent. After a fine talk on idealism on art it was odd to hear him enunciating a strong anti-Jewish prejudice. But so have we all our failings. 

Later we hiked up to look at Miss Kendall's house. It ias very nice, but too far from the main streets, car lines, and schools. 

Monday, 1 February
I was a little late in getting this afternoon as Alan Priest came in with Dr. Perzynski just as I was getting ready to leave, and we talked a while about books and things. Consequently we were late in getting to the Institutue of Fine Arts to hear Madame Munthe lecture on the Temple of Heaven, and found the Lecture Hall.