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                <text>My dear Seetoo:- &#13;
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Many thanks for your letter received this morning. I am sorry to learn that we are not likely to have you with us next year, but i can readily understand why you feel the necessity of hastening your admission to college. May you be successful in getting into the Institute, and successful also in securing the Government aid you desire. I shall be very glad to write the Institute in your behalf, and am forwarding today a statement covering the work which you have had here, and certifying to your good character., It is our custom to send statements of this kind direct to the secretary of the institution concerned. &#13;
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I am interested to learn that Mr. Yeh is planning to enter Phillips this fall. I shall be glad to meet him and Mr. Chen when they came to Andover this week. &#13;
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With very good wish to you, and assuring you of my hearty and continued interest in your work and progress, believe me &#13;
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                <text>My dear Mrs. Nye:&#13;
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I am glad that you decided that you could conscientiously accept that check. It is little enough, and I know from past experiences that our good Chinese friends are more than desirous of reimbursing us for all financial and, so far as practicable, other outlays we make in behalf of their children. It was some time before I could bring myself to charge anything when these appealing youngsters were in my own home, as they were for years, but their presence invariably involved expense, and to an extent which my limited means would not honestly justify. I simply had to come to the point of trying to figure out what that expense actually amounted to and charging it to their accounts, making clear to the parents concerned the why and wherefore of it all and receiving from them in turn the heartiest approval and endorsement. Where the youngsters dropped in on me for a day or two here and there, as they often did, I still preferred to allow them, this privilege gratis, something that I should have liked to do immensely at all times, had I been a man of means. Where they stayed for definite times, the charges were imposed on a basis, as nearly as I could figure it, which involved only the additional expense incurred by their presence. I could well understand that, if you were reimbursed for all of the actual expenses you have incurred in behalf of the Tsais, the $100.00 which you received from me recently would not begin to cover everything.&#13;
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                <text>December 31. 1923&#13;
Mr. George A. Fitch&#13;
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My dear Mr. Fitch:&#13;
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One of my Chinese wards, Thomas Sun, whose family, residents of Tientsin, are, I believe, friends of yours, has expressed the desire to be baptised. His father had urged him to postpone the actual event awaiting your arrival in this vicinity and in order that you might perform the ceremony. May I ask whether your plan are such as to make it possible for you to arrange to do this in the not distant future? I understand from Mr. Schneider of the International Committee that you are at present touring some of the eastern states, so I am assuming that there is a chance at least that your wanderings will carry you to our vicinity. I hope so.&#13;
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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. &#13;
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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. &#13;
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                <text>Dear Mr. Gardner:&#13;
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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.&#13;
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.&#13;
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                <text>My dear Mr. Gardner:&#13;
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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.&#13;
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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.&#13;
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Again let me assure you of my regret at the seemingly unnecessary trouble which I have caused you.&#13;
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                <text>My dear Mr. Gardner:&#13;
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I have just leaned, and with consternation and the deepest regret, of the circumstances under which the son of our mutual friend, Mr. M.T. Liang, was denied a chance to enter Phillips Academy and was, therefore, compelled to seek another school. &#13;
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I can't conceive of anything that could have disturbed me more than have the facts which have just come to my attention; and I hasten to write this word of explanation and apology to you. My assistant neglected to call my attention to the case at all, since he failed completely to identify Mr. Liang and to realize his personal relations to me. &#13;
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When I heard that Mr. Liang's boy was at Exeter, I was a bit surprised because the father had assured me that, if his son was not able to enter college on his arrival in America, he would send him to Andover where we have had ever since the days of Liang Cheng Tung a steady and fine delegation of Chinese boys. When this last news came to me, therefore, I was distressed and, frankly, a good bit hurt. I made inquiries among the Chinese boys in my own house and in school and they were as much at a loss as I to account for the situation. This morning Mary Sun, who has been a member of my family circle for the past two years, told me that her brother had just written her that young Liang had told him that he had applied for admission at Andover and been told that there was no room. This announcement sent me in a hot haste to the office where I found the correspondence between you and my assistant. Naturally I am very much upset, for I am afraid that Mr. Liang, Senior, will find it difficult to understand how the thing could have happened. &#13;
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It is true that we have steadily turned away scores of applicants for admission because the limit of enrollment has long been reached, if not indeed exceeded. On the other hand, I assured Mr. Liang, and I stood ready to make the promise good, that I would gladly give up one of the extra rooms in my own house in case there should be no vacancies outside. This is exactly what I did in the cases of the Suns, four of whom were in my household last year and three of whom still remain and two of their young friends who accompanied them from China. All of this group came to me through the friendly interests of Mr. Liang, Senior, and I would naturally have been ready and glad to do even more for his own boy than for strangers. I think you can appreciate, therefore, something of my feeling in discovering what has happened. &#13;
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I suppose you may think it a bit late to consider the possibility of a change of school for the boy at this time. Personally, however, I wish very much that this might be done, unless you should deem it very unwise. The matter could be clearly explained to Mr. Perry at Exeter, who is a warm and close friend of mine and who would appreciate undoubtedly my reasons in advocating such an unusual procedure. That phase of the situation, therefore, could be properly handled, I am sure. On the other hand, our long experience with scores of these Chinese students has given us a pretty good opportunity to judge of and plan for their special needs; so that I believe we could easily overcome whatever losses might be involved in a transfer such as proposed. I have two extra rooms in my own house and would be only glad to make use of one of these for the boy, with the understanding, if desired, that the moment a suitable vacancy occurred outside it would be available for him, provided it seemed best to separate him from the other Chinese students. &#13;
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I trust that you will appreciate the spirit which prompts me to write in this very frank and perhaps a bit unusual way and will be equally frank in your reply. Nothing has occurred during the year that has disturbed me more than this particular affair; and I mean to do everything in my power to straighten out the tangle and make amends for the sins of omission and commission of myself and my assistant. &#13;
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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. &#13;
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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. &#13;
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Mr.H.D.Dimmick,&#13;
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My dear Sir:&#13;
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Thank you for the information contained in your letter of November 8. I had already learned from Mr. Tsai, Senior, that the two thousand dollars ($2000) in question was to do credited to his son, as I had guessed to be the case. &#13;
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