Letter from George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns December 2, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang)
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Letter from George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns December 2, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang)
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Letter from George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns December 2, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang)
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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,
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,
Creator
George C. Gardner
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
December 2, 1922
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Language
English
Type
Correspondence