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Rh various colleges in the neighborhood who come with proper credentials. The friendly feeling thus created is invaluable and more than offsets the few dollars that might be taken in from these same people if they were required to pay. The receipts for admission fees amount at best to a very small sum, and it is therefore unjustifiable to consider them in comparison to the good which may be done by a generous policy in regard to free tickets.

MUSEUM STAFF

The suggestions here offered in regard to staff are worked out with the problem of the medium-sized museum in mind. No scheme can be formulated that can be rigidly adhered to in all cases. Personality counts largely in museum work and the good administrator may find himself called upon to entirely reorganize his staff for the sake of giving to some one peculiarly brilliant individual in his employ the work he or she is best fitted to do. There is no attempt here to consider the problems that arise with a complicated staff of scientific experts. A spirit of co-operation between all the workers is the essential always and matters more than the exact division of duties.

In the following discussion the distinction is