Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, September 11, 1926
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Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, September 11, 1926
Subject
Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, September 11, 1926
Description
Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze. Asks for names of Tsai children in order to set up accounts. Received check of $2,000. Asks the Tsai children report to Andover so Stearns can decide where to place them. Explains many Chinese students need a year in preparatory school, especially to focus on English. Will send letter to Kwai.
Transcription
September 11, 1926
Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze
Chinese Legation
Washington, D. C.
My dear Dr. Sze:
On my return to Andover I find your letter of September 9 and
the accompanying check $2,000.00, which 1 shall hold for the expenses of Admiral Tsai’s two children. Please send me the names of these two newcomers in order that I may be able to handle their accounts intelligently.
Our school opens the first of this coming week, and if the boy
is going to be able to meet cur requirements here without some further preparation, he should report at the earliest possible date. Of course I have not been able to make any definite arrangements yet for either of those travelers, since I am wholly ignorant of the extent and character of their previous work. A large number of our Chinese students who have come to us in the past have had to put in at least a year in small schools in order to get the foundation, especially in English, required to insure successful work in the larger classses of a school of this kind. If, therefore, you will instruct the Tsais to report here as speedily as possible, I shall be glad to go over their cases very carefully with them and then decide what the wisest course to adopt for the current year is likely to be.
I am sending this letter to Mr. Tung Kwai, as requested, in case you may have sailed for Europe before its receipt.
Very sincerely yours.
Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze
Chinese Legation
Washington, D. C.
My dear Dr. Sze:
On my return to Andover I find your letter of September 9 and
the accompanying check $2,000.00, which 1 shall hold for the expenses of Admiral Tsai’s two children. Please send me the names of these two newcomers in order that I may be able to handle their accounts intelligently.
Our school opens the first of this coming week, and if the boy
is going to be able to meet cur requirements here without some further preparation, he should report at the earliest possible date. Of course I have not been able to make any definite arrangements yet for either of those travelers, since I am wholly ignorant of the extent and character of their previous work. A large number of our Chinese students who have come to us in the past have had to put in at least a year in small schools in order to get the foundation, especially in English, required to insure successful work in the larger classses of a school of this kind. If, therefore, you will instruct the Tsais to report here as speedily as possible, I shall be glad to go over their cases very carefully with them and then decide what the wisest course to adopt for the current year is likely to be.
I am sending this letter to Mr. Tung Kwai, as requested, in case you may have sailed for Europe before its receipt.
Very sincerely yours.
Creator
Dr. Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
September 11, 1926
Rights
All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Manuscripts. Correspondence.