Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, December 13, 1920
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Title
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, December 13, 1920
Subject
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, December 13, 1920
Transcription
My dear Mr. Liang:
Your nighty nice letter of October 29th is before me. Quincy Sheh arrived at about the same time and has apparently found little difficulty in adjusting himself the new conditions, and already looks like a full fledged Phillipian. He has been at the house several times and his old friends here were most glad to welcome him. He seems like a very attractive fellow.
Just now the family circle is pretty well keyed up over the coming Christmas. We are planning a true, with all the fixings. I mean to make the event one which none of our eastern friends will be likely to forget. They are entering into it with the finest spirit and enthusiasm, which will mean much to the enjoyment of the affair by us all. I find that most of the other Chinese boys of the school are likely to be in town over the holidays and I have asked them to join us at the tree. This will make a group altogether of about twenty or more, which will keep Santa Claus a bit busy.
I have heard with deep distress of the wide spread and terrible famine from which so much of China is suffering at this time. We have already taken one collection among our boys to aid your good work in alleviating the suffering of these stricken people, and we hope to do more next term. What a suffering world this is these days, with cries for help rising from all sides; and the worst of it all is that a vast portion of this suffering is due indirectly, if not directly, to the incompetency, greed and selfishness of man himself, and his utter disregard of the Golden Rule. Perhaps we need something wide spread like this in the way of calamity and suffering to bring us to our senses and make us duly humble, which, after all, must be the starting point of all accomplishment and real reform.
With sincere good wishes for the Holiday Season and the coming New Year, believe me
Always faithfully yours,
Your nighty nice letter of October 29th is before me. Quincy Sheh arrived at about the same time and has apparently found little difficulty in adjusting himself the new conditions, and already looks like a full fledged Phillipian. He has been at the house several times and his old friends here were most glad to welcome him. He seems like a very attractive fellow.
Just now the family circle is pretty well keyed up over the coming Christmas. We are planning a true, with all the fixings. I mean to make the event one which none of our eastern friends will be likely to forget. They are entering into it with the finest spirit and enthusiasm, which will mean much to the enjoyment of the affair by us all. I find that most of the other Chinese boys of the school are likely to be in town over the holidays and I have asked them to join us at the tree. This will make a group altogether of about twenty or more, which will keep Santa Claus a bit busy.
I have heard with deep distress of the wide spread and terrible famine from which so much of China is suffering at this time. We have already taken one collection among our boys to aid your good work in alleviating the suffering of these stricken people, and we hope to do more next term. What a suffering world this is these days, with cries for help rising from all sides; and the worst of it all is that a vast portion of this suffering is due indirectly, if not directly, to the incompetency, greed and selfishness of man himself, and his utter disregard of the Golden Rule. Perhaps we need something wide spread like this in the way of calamity and suffering to bring us to our senses and make us duly humble, which, after all, must be the starting point of all accomplishment and real reform.
With sincere good wishes for the Holiday Season and the coming New Year, believe me
Always faithfully yours,
Creator
Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
December 13, 1920
Rights
All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence