Letter from Carlie Mallett, Registrar, Elmira College, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 20, 1929
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Letter from Carlie Mallett, Registrar, Elmira College, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 20, 1929
Subject
Letter from Carlie Mallett, Registrar, Elmira College, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 20, 1929
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Dear Mr. Stearns,
We have to-day received a telegram from Miss Mary Sun asking us to cancel her room reservation.
The room, of course, has been reserved since last spring for Miss Sun who has signed and returned the contract, and it will be difficult, if not impossible, to fill the room at this late date.
Moreover, we feel very strongly that if Miss Sun lives outside the college buildings she will lose a most necessary and precious part of college experience. Even more than American students, the foreign students need every possible contact with the other students and with the faculty, and in living in an outside house, where there are no other students, she will be most unfortunately isolated. The other foreign students here live in the dormitories and become a vital and integral part of the student body. It would seem almost better for a foreign student not to enter an American college, then to attend it in so artificial and unusual a way.
Will you please let us know at once what you wish Miss Sun to do, so that we may know what to tell her when she arrives either to-morrow evening or Wednesday morning?
Sincerely,
Registrar
We have to-day received a telegram from Miss Mary Sun asking us to cancel her room reservation.
The room, of course, has been reserved since last spring for Miss Sun who has signed and returned the contract, and it will be difficult, if not impossible, to fill the room at this late date.
Moreover, we feel very strongly that if Miss Sun lives outside the college buildings she will lose a most necessary and precious part of college experience. Even more than American students, the foreign students need every possible contact with the other students and with the faculty, and in living in an outside house, where there are no other students, she will be most unfortunately isolated. The other foreign students here live in the dormitories and become a vital and integral part of the student body. It would seem almost better for a foreign student not to enter an American college, then to attend it in so artificial and unusual a way.
Will you please let us know at once what you wish Miss Sun to do, so that we may know what to tell her when she arrives either to-morrow evening or Wednesday morning?
Sincerely,
Registrar
Creator
Carlie Mallett
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
September 20, 1929
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All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence