135 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/55ca1eb3d871bf773fa246c32d4cb969.jpg cd761c727760f95f6726df1c547d9415 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 4604, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Copy of letter from Charles F. Warner, Springfield, Mass., to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. September 27, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Subject The topic of the resource Copy of letter from Charles F. Warner, Springfield, Mass., to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. September 27, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charles F. Warner Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 27, 1922 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Gardner; We have given Thomas Liang a very searching examination, both oral and written, some of the results of which are enclosed. May I ask you to return the examation [sic] papers when you are through with them. We find that he is especially weak in mathematics and that he has had no modern language whatever, (except Chinese and English). Cornell would be a rather favorable institution for him to enter because, if he secures a certificate record, we can get him in there without his taking the College Board examinations. It is not an easy matter, however, to get this "B" average, especially as he is way behind in the two subjects mentioned above. I find, however, that he is quite well qualified intellectually in English though the requirements for reading that he must meet are rather long; and that he will probably get along quite easily in Physics. He must, however, have at least two years of French and he is technically due to have three years of Mathematics, which may by tutoring be shortened to two. My conclusion is that he ought not to think of trying to get into Cornell in one year, even if he can stand extraordinary pressure of studies. Any engineering course, as you know, requires strong mathematical foundation, and that is his weakest point. I therefore plan to start him at the foundation in mathematics and French, hoping that with extra care he may be able in two years to accomplish enough to admit him to an engineering course in college. I have planned to go lightly on the technical work, specializing largely in drawing, with a minimum of shopwork. In fact, I consider him a special student and not classified according to our momenclature [sic]. I will give him a seat with our college preparatory juniors. Of course this plan is tenative [sic], subject to variation as Liang is tried out. Very truly yours, Charles F. Warner. Charles F. Warner George C. Gardner Tommy Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/12cb3637d6496bb29f4d3b1589bc2330.jpg ddb1032a2603a6488843c0483d21b500 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 4604, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns September 29, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns September 29, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George C. Gardner Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 29, 1922 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Relation A related resource Dear Sir: The son of an old Chinese friend of mine Liang Yu Ho, (M. T. Liang) has just come here from China and my friend wishes him, if possible, to go to Cornell as soon as he is able to do so. My friend, Liang Yu Ho, spent a day or two in Andover, I believe, a year or two ago where some of his young student friends were and perhaps are now. Thomas Liang, the boy in question, arrived here too late to enter by examination any of the preparatory schools and after talking with my friend Mr. Warner, Pincipal [sic]of the Technical High School, here, he has started in tentatively. It is my feeling, however, that he may be able make more rapid progress in a preparatory school and I am writing to ask whether or not you can take him and if so, what the over all expense approximately will be. I am enclosing with this, copy of a letter which Mr. Warner has just handed me upon which my only criticism is, that I doubt whether he will need as long a preparation of French and mathematics as Warner seems to think, for the boy is bright and a worker. I shall be very grateful to you for such information or advice as you can give me. Yours very truly, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns George C. Gardner Tommy Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3dfdde4f87933fa83f6996aa4dd554a4.jpg 10ee90b0aae619b38ec2f077c8335cf0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 4604, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. October 2, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. October 2, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 2, 1922 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Gardner: In response to your inquiry of September 29th I have mailed you a copy of our catalogue which contains information about our work, expenses, etc. There are no vacancies in our enrollment at the present time, and it is, therefore, not possible for us to receive the young man of whom you write. We have found out from experience that it is a difficult matter to estimate how long a time a boy fresh from China will need to spend in preparation for college entrance. So much depends upon the individual boy and his previous training, as well as upon his mastery of English, that it is never safe to prophesy until after the boy has been some time in our classes. I haven't the slightest doubt that Mr. Warner is correct in saying that this boy will need more than one year. Very truly yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns George C. Gardner Tommy Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9423e076a27143963b97e86c3af6627d.jpg c9a5941eceb066d82882625ce4ff09b2 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/dd09da2ae2a8cba7548d66a844f7b876.jpg 8d096664742a925c904e94f12d90ebf9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 4604, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns, November 15, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns, November 15, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George C. Gardner Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 15, 1922 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns; I am very glad indeed to have your letter of November 9th, and I only regret that I did not at the time, write directly to you, but as I have not the honor of knowing you personally and did not remember hearing Liang speak of you directly, I took the more usual and formal course in writing Andover. Liang wrote me early in the summer asking if I would be willing to act as guardian for Tommy and his sister Grace, and later suggested that Tommy round out his secondary education at the Technical High School in this city, where in the past a half dozen boys, young friends or relatives of Liang and Tong Shiu Yi, over whom my father and I exercised a guardianship, had received their education,-and whence they had gone to various technical schools and colleges. So, I took no steps toward placing Tommy anywhere else until it appeared, after talking with the Principal of the school here and watching his career for a couple of weeks, that a prep school was the place for him. I knew Liang’s strong predilection for Andover and wrote accordingly, and feeding that Andover might be unable to take him, also asked my son-in-law, Myron Williams, who is one of the instructors at Exeter, if it could be arranged for Tommy's reception there, in case he could not go to Andover. Hence the situation. As you can readily understand, I appreciate most fully your very generous offer and in spite of the fact that it might be unfortunate to unsettle Tommy's career by a shift at this time or in the near future, the unusual advantages of such a change through your offer, are so evident that my only hesitation is on account of the financial question involved. While Liang is relatively wealthy, he has I know, a large demand upon his exchequer, not only for his own family, but through his feeling, common to all the Chinese of his age and station, of responsibility toward many others not so fortunate, related in some way to him, and unless some arrangement could be made with Dr. Perry, whereby his fees already paid and presumably to be paid could be rebated, I should hesitate to make the change this school year. If, however, you think this can be done, I most heartily approve of it. Let me thank you again for writing so fully in the matter. Liang and his cousin Tong came to my father in the seventies; we grew up together as youngsters during the period that they were here and Liang has stayed with me more or less on his later visits to this country, so that I am delighted to feel that his youngest child may have the opportunity of getting his schooling with you and the more keenly so if he may have the benefit of your personal influence. Yours very truly, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns George C. Gardner https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/916885ea24362e4e23c433e231db495d.jpg bd7e648d70230348816757535dde5380 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f15c5cdb6a468abc1a7554695015aadc.jpg 51f980e1eabb15a9d6d4cc7a5d644504 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 4604, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. November 16, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. November 16, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 16, 1922 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Gardner: Thank you for your frank and friendly letter received this morning. Dr. Perry is to be my guest Saturday in connection with our annual football contest with his school; and I will have a good opportunity to explain to him the complications that have developed over young Liang's school connection, and I am sure that he will understand fully and cooperate in a generous way. If any question arises in regard to fees due or already paid at Exeter, we shall be ready and glad to waive the first half year's payment here. There is no reason, therefore, why there should be any extra expense involved in the change. In justice to Mr. Liang this is as it should be; for I know from experience that our Chinese friends, regardless of their individual means, are, in the large majority of cases, very eager that their children should learn by actual restraint in expenditure the value of money. Mr. Liang has often told me of his intimate relations with and affection for your family. My own associations with the Chinese began when Liang Chontung, one of that early group of Chinese Pioneers, returned to this country as Ambassador and almost at once visited his old school at Andover. We made a good deal of him at the time; and I had the privilege of passing several days as his guest at the Chinese Legation in Washington. On that first return visit to Andover he brought a group of boys whom he left in my charge; and, as a result of that beginning, I have had a hundred or more boys in school here during the last fifteen or twenty years and have filled the position of American guardian and adviser for some fifty of them. These most interesting relationships induced me to turn my eyes toward China, when in 1912 the trustees granted me a year's leave of absence. The warm and friendly hospitality extended so generously to me there has always been one of my most valued memories and has led to even closer and wider friendships with these most attractive people in later years. Mr. M.T. Liang, especially, had so often gone out of his way to show his friendship and goodwill that I felt all the more keenly the slip which had been made in my office in answering your letter of inquiry. I am delighted that there is now a good chance of making the Andover contact with Liang's boy. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns George C. Gardner Tommy Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0e3a4f07c85e886748c5e29c98862378.jpg 5fe745ff545aa77fdeff00aaf27dd02f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 4604, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. November 21, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. November 21, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 21, 1922 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Telegram Dr. Alfred E. Stearns George C. Gardner Tommy Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/df2be977be7ddd70ba8ee85670894540.jpg 97017991e0288df1d387c21c2de6c831 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 4604, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Telegram from George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns November 22, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns November 22, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George C. Gardner Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 22, 1922 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Telegram Relation A related resource ANDOVER, MASS SPRINGFIELD MASS 1238A NOV 22 1922 DR A E STEARNS ANDOVER MASS YOUR WIRE MOST SATISFACTORY MY SON IN LAW WILLIAMS INSTRUCTOR AT EXETER IS LOOKING AFTER TOMMY COULD YOU ARRANGE WITH I HAVE PHONED HIM ABOUT IT THIS EVENING STOP I HIM DETAILS OF TRANSFER STOP WOULD SUGGEST TOMMY CALL ON YOU AT ANDOVER BEFORE CHANGING AS HE SEEMS AL LITTLE PERPLEXED GEORGE C GARDNER 745A Dr. Alfred E. Stearns George C. Gardner Tommy Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2214a62105d20ac4ea9c68bdc34162cd.jpg b70fb39fc869a5ef72d6e515af9753a0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 4604, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. November 24, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. November 24, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 24, 1922 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Gardner: On receipt of your wire I telephoned Mr. Perry at Exeter, who got in touch with young Liang, and he came down to see me yesterday. He had lunch with me and I took him to Lawrence early in the afternoon to catch the express for Exeter so that he would not lose his afternoon recitations. It has been arranged for the transfer to take place today for, after going over carefully with the boy and the instructors here, the problems connected with his schedule have straightened out and it seemed to us all wise that the new start should be made at as early a date as possible, At first I was inclined to concur in Mr. Perry’s suggestion that it might be well to let the boy finish out the current term at Exeter and come to us at the opening of the winter term. After discussing with Liang, however, the work he is doing, and, in view of the fact that our fall term lasts eight days longer than that at Exeter, we both agreed that the earlier change would be to the boy’s advantage. Liang was very much pleased to find two or three of his old friends here at Andover whom he had not realized were with us, and he tells me that he is really eager to come to us, so that my lingering doubts as to the wisdom of urging the change have disappeared, and I hope and believe that the boy will find the new environment a happy and beneficial one. He will take a room in my house for the present, though he has already assured me that he would prefer to stay there definitely. For my part I am not quite sure that this would be wise, but we can tell a bit better later. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns George C. Gardner Tommy Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/21fc4e12a10562912545616a14f365f4.jpg 622cd4c10a787e5b84ac46ab3045e07d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/479ed8abc022e3c718f1d3fe8b9d5e64.jpg eb1d6e88e0cc5f1f74652720d7806de7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 4604, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. November 29, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. November 29, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 29, 1922 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Gardner: I feel that just a word is due you explaining my latest actions, and those of our good friend, Tommy Liang, in connection with the proposed transfer of the boy from Exeter to Andover. The transfer was duly accomplished. A room in my house was got ready, at some considerable labor, because the room in question was one of my regular guest rooms. Tommy, with due amount of baggage, arrived safely at the Andover station, where I met him and conveyed him to the house. There he was met by a number of his old Chinese friends, and apparently was delighted with the new arrangements made for his welfare. I asked him very plainly and sincerely, several times, if he really desired to make the change, or was likely to be unhappy in it, suggesting that if the latter were the case I should be disposed to recommend to you that the Exeter connection be retained. He assured me very emphatically that he preferred to be at Andover and was very glad that the transfer had taken place. As I had to leave town very shortly after his arrival I arranged with one of the other Chinese boys to accompany him to his first recitations and to introduce him to his class officer. Soon after my return next day I was called on by Mr. Williams of Exeter, who advised me that Tommy had called him up the night before, stated that he was homesick, and desired to return to Exeter. Mr. Williams’ trip to Andover was prompted by this interview. Knowing from a pretty long experience the sudden waves of emotion that sweep over these new comers from the Orient, I was a bit surprised that Mr. Williams had attached so much importance to the boy's very natural reaction to the new environment. After talking with him a while, however, I came to the conclusion that he himself had clearly made up his mind that the boy should not have left Exeter, and as I found myself in a somewhat awkward position I did not deem it wise to argue the other side of tho question with any force. When Mr. Williams told me that he wished to talk with Liang about the situation I decided definitely that it would probably be better for me to say nothing more, but to favor the boy’s return to Exeter. As graciously as I could, therefore, I accepted the suggestions made by Mr. Williams, in favor of the re-transfer, and assured him that it was my only wish that the father’s plans for the boy, as he had given them to me in the past, should be carried out, and the boy’s best welfare furthered. Unfortunately, I was again on the point of leaving town for an engagement elsewhere and therefore had no further chance to learn of the final outcome until my return on Monday. I told Mr. Williams before leaving that, if the boy was to go back to Exeter eventually, it seemed wise, in my judgment, that the step should be taken at once rather than later. I found on my return that the suggestion had been complied with and that Liang had gone back to the New Hampshire school, whither his baggage speedily followed him. I felt it only fair that you should have these facts, in order that you might understand my position in a somewhat confused situation. Before leaving Mr. Williams assured me that he would send me a copy of a letter which he proposed to write to you explaining things, and that I would receive from you, either by telephone or by letter, a full endorsement of the plan. I told him that I felt this was necessary since you were the boy’s guardian, and that your wishes, of course, should first be consulted, and your recommendations adopted. Thus far I have not seen the letter in question, but I understand from my housekeeper that you did call me on the phone for the purpose of confirming Mr. Williams’s action. I am sure that you will appreciate that my attitude and action in this whole matter has been prompted wholly by my personal friendship with Mr. Liang, and my definite promise to him when he was here that I would take a personal interest in his boy if he did decide to come to Andover, and my natural wish to deal as kindly, at least, with Mr. Liang’s boy, as I have tried to deal with the sons and daughters of several of Mr. Liang’s personal friends who were placed in my charge under the latter's own solicitation. I am sure that young Liang will be perfectly happy at Exeter, and well taken care of, and I think I am safe in saying that the same would have been true had he remained at Andover, and the very natural early reactions resulting from the sudden change been taken a bit less seriously. Again let me assure you of my regret at the seemingly unnecessary trouble which I have caused you. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns George C. Gardner Tommy Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/32ada6865f0d97e44c96f125e0fb01b4.jpg 24661aca30fdec6ec722f40f2294740e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 4604, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns December 2, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns December 2, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George C. Gardner Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 2, 1922 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Stearns: I have heard from Thomas and he appears to be finally settled in his mind and reconciled to his return to Exeter. Tommy appears to me the most temperamental of all the boys who have been with us in the last dozen years and while I have no doubt that it is perfectly true that he would in a week or more, have become acclimated to Andover, and agree with you that this spasm of homesickness was a temporary one, I think probably it is just as well that he has gone back. For purely personal reasons, I had hoped he might be with you. One of them was purely selfish and the other because of your personal intimacy with Liang. As a matter of discipline however; I am inclined to think that for the next six months Exeter on the whole will be good for him. He is evidently quite impressionable,- I might almost say credulous, and has been writing to me glowing accounts of various colleges and universities, all the way from New York City to Kansas, with which he has been corresponding, that are eager to accept him at once as an enrolled student. So, I think his best job is to stay where he is and dig for a time. I thoroughly appreciate your interest in the matter and am very grateful for it and I know Liang will feel so too, and I sincerely hope that we may some time have the opportunity of talking over, not only Tommie’s future prospects, but the whole matter of China’s students, for I am thoroughly convinced that the effects of this American education will be even more of a factor in China’s future than yet appears. Yours very truly, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns George C. Gardner Tommy Liang