Letter from May Wright Sewall to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 12, 1908
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Letter from May Wright Sewall to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 12, 1908
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Letter from May Wright Sewall to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 12, 1908
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Typed letter sent from May Wright Sewall to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Requests information about Wong Vung Lung, based suggestion of Professor C.D. Tenney. Believes Wong would perform better if wife and child were not in Andover. Asks what's Wong's actual progress. Asks Stearns opinion on Wong's domestic situation.
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February 12th. 1908
Principal of the Phillips Andover Academy,
Andover Massachusetts,
My dear Mr. Stearns
Wishing some information concerning one of your students at the suggestion of Professor C. D. Tenney, of Harvard University, I apply to you.
There is enrolled in your Academy a Mr. Wong Vung Lung, the son of very dear friends of mine. Recently I had a long visit with Mr. Wong which left me anxious about him. I know that he felt he was not doing in his Mathematical studies. I, myself, had some fear that his new responsibilities would add burdens to his life at Andover. Professor Tenney has suggested that perhaps it would be better for Mr.Wong’s scholastic career if his wife and child should not be in Andover with him.
This general and very informal statement will perhaps introduce the questions that I have to ask in a way that will incline you to answer them with the frankness that a very dear friend of the Wong family has a right to. Will you, therefore, kindly tell me just what Mr. Wong’s actual progress in each of his studies is, and what is his relative rank as compared with the other Chinese students who are with you. Also will you kindly give me your opinion as to the domestic question which has been suggested above.
Thanking you in advance for an early and ample reply
to this letter which I beg you to consider entirely confidential, I am,
Principal of the Phillips Andover Academy,
Andover Massachusetts,
My dear Mr. Stearns
Wishing some information concerning one of your students at the suggestion of Professor C. D. Tenney, of Harvard University, I apply to you.
There is enrolled in your Academy a Mr. Wong Vung Lung, the son of very dear friends of mine. Recently I had a long visit with Mr. Wong which left me anxious about him. I know that he felt he was not doing in his Mathematical studies. I, myself, had some fear that his new responsibilities would add burdens to his life at Andover. Professor Tenney has suggested that perhaps it would be better for Mr.Wong’s scholastic career if his wife and child should not be in Andover with him.
This general and very informal statement will perhaps introduce the questions that I have to ask in a way that will incline you to answer them with the frankness that a very dear friend of the Wong family has a right to. Will you, therefore, kindly tell me just what Mr. Wong’s actual progress in each of his studies is, and what is his relative rank as compared with the other Chinese students who are with you. Also will you kindly give me your opinion as to the domestic question which has been suggested above.
Thanking you in advance for an early and ample reply
to this letter which I beg you to consider entirely confidential, I am,
Creator
May Wright Sewall
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
February 12, 1908
Rights
All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence