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hand to mouth; but as soon as the Out-Pat ient Department is 

 ready, we shall have a good equipment, both for teaching and 

 for helping the sick and injured. 



The young men who are doing the actual 

 work in Shanghai all knew at the start, and know now, how 

 slender and precarious are the resources of the School; but 

 they are actually leading, with enthusiasm, productive and 

 benevolent lives. Most of them are married and have their 

 wives and children with them. 



I have the impression that you have 

 travelled in the East, and that your son Harris has also 

 been there, and knows the Chinese situation. The very 

 best gift we can make to China is a Chinese profession of 

 Western medicine, surgery, and sanitation. To create such 

 a profession is the fundamental object of The Harvard Medi- 

 cal Scool of China. Will you not contribute to the support 

 of that School? I have just given myself $1000 toward the 

 support of an Out-Patient Department during the year 1914-15. 

 Mr. Arthur T. Lyman has just given |4000 for the same object. 

 The new dormitory erected by the Chinese Red Cross Society, 

 in fulfillment of a contract our School made with them more 

 than a year ago, will have to be furnished; and a letter re- 

 ceived to-day from the Dean of the School says that a special 

 outfit is needed for the Eye, Ear, and Throat Clinic. This 

 Clinic, by the way, is so thronged^rf \axes very severely 

 the time and strength of our Clinical Professors. In 

 short, the field is boundless. Competent and devoted men 



