Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Mr. Thomas Lee, June 17, 1915
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Title
Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Mr. Thomas Lee, June 17, 1915
Subject
Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Mr. Thomas Lee, June 17, 1915
Description
Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Tommy Lee. Sent check. Troubled by recent bills. States bills are large and has not seen accounts for said bills. Sent bills to New Haven for Lee to okay. Approves studying Chemistry in Columbia if can be done cheaply. Discusses activities of other Chinese students.
Transcription
My dear Tommy:
I have your letter of June 5th and am inclosing a check for $35. as requested. Evidently the money is going pretty fast these closing days of the college year. The bills which have come in recently have troubled me a good deal because they are large and regularly refer to accounts rendered, which accounts I have never seen. I don’t feel justified in paying big bills where I have no details as to what they represent. You will find several of these bills awaiting you in New Haven when you return, for I have sent them back there to have you O.K. them, and also to have you get the detailed statements to send me. Please attend to this at once, for I don’t want any more collecting agencies demanding payment of me.
The question of your studying in Columbia this summer it seems to me should hinge on expenses rather than anything else. If you can get a course there for $20. covering six weeks in Chemistry, and can live there as reasonably as you could elsewhere, I am inclined to advise you to take it. You must make this deficiency up in some way, and this will probably offer you as good a chance as any. Certainly you couldn’t make up Chemistry at the Lake, though it will not seem like the old place up there without you and your cheery smile. I am hoping to go up about the first of July, and I wish you were going to be with us. Perhaps your examination reports will indicate that you came out better than you now anticipate.
Yes, your fellow countrymen have made some remarkably good records here this year. Two of the prizes they carried off were among our very best and biggest prizes too; further than that, the competition was stronger than ever before, as our graduating class this year was about the best class in point of scholarship we have ever had in the school.
Let me know what you finally decide to do, and believe me, with all best wishes,
Most sincerely yours,
I have your letter of June 5th and am inclosing a check for $35. as requested. Evidently the money is going pretty fast these closing days of the college year. The bills which have come in recently have troubled me a good deal because they are large and regularly refer to accounts rendered, which accounts I have never seen. I don’t feel justified in paying big bills where I have no details as to what they represent. You will find several of these bills awaiting you in New Haven when you return, for I have sent them back there to have you O.K. them, and also to have you get the detailed statements to send me. Please attend to this at once, for I don’t want any more collecting agencies demanding payment of me.
The question of your studying in Columbia this summer it seems to me should hinge on expenses rather than anything else. If you can get a course there for $20. covering six weeks in Chemistry, and can live there as reasonably as you could elsewhere, I am inclined to advise you to take it. You must make this deficiency up in some way, and this will probably offer you as good a chance as any. Certainly you couldn’t make up Chemistry at the Lake, though it will not seem like the old place up there without you and your cheery smile. I am hoping to go up about the first of July, and I wish you were going to be with us. Perhaps your examination reports will indicate that you came out better than you now anticipate.
Yes, your fellow countrymen have made some remarkably good records here this year. Two of the prizes they carried off were among our very best and biggest prizes too; further than that, the competition was stronger than ever before, as our graduating class this year was about the best class in point of scholarship we have ever had in the school.
Let me know what you finally decide to do, and believe me, with all best wishes,
Most sincerely yours,
Creator
Dr. Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
June 17, 1915
Rights
All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence