Letter from Charles Sun, c/o Frank Lin, MIT Dorm, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 24, 1927
Dublin Core
Title
Letter from Charles Sun, c/o Frank Lin, MIT Dorm, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 24, 1927
Subject
Letter from Charles Sun, c/o Frank Lin, MIT Dorm, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 24, 1927
Transcription
Dear Dr. Stearns:
These last three or four days nave formed the most eventful weekend in Boston so far this summer. On Friday I listened at the Sharkey-Dempsey fight over the radio, and was greatly interested to hear that the latter won. This victory means that the championship bout to be held sometimes in the coming fall will be one of the best attended boxing match in the history or the boxing world. On Saturday I had the opportunity of seeing that much-talked-about and attractive American aviator, Charles Lindbergh. I was only one of the many thousands of Bostonians, who came out to greet their national idol of the air. The city for two or three hours was in a feverish uproar when a great part or her citizens were expecting the arrival of this man, but in the wink of the eye all is quiet again. How quick "Lindy” passed by!
It is a long time since Amherst College closed for the summer, and I think that by this time the recorder must have mailed out the grades for our final examinations. So if you have already received my report and have no more need or it, please kindly send it to me, for I am very desirous to know I have made out last year. Thank you, Sir, in advance.
On the nineth [sic] of this month Arthur and Quincy left Boston for Seattle, thence they sailed for China on the nineteenth. By now they are pretty near Japan, and in less than a week they will sight, the land which was absent from their eyes for seven long years. They must feel very strange to get back.
Since Arthur a departure Tom and I are still staying in the M. I. T. dormitories, and Frank, of course, is with us. There is nothing much for us to do except exercise and play. I am not doing any studying save reading myself plays of Shakespeare. In rainy weather we would play card games or go to the moving picture show; in good days we would play tennis, or soccer, or football to suit our taste. I call this a very easy way of passing a summer, too, too easy. Next year I shall take care to find something worthwhile to do during the summer.
Some time ago this month I met one of the Andover boys. He said that he was been up in your camp for a short stay with the Hoppers. The fishing is not good, according to him, but just the same it tickled me to death to near things about the old camp. It is really one of my dreams to go up to the Diamond Stream for a week of fishing sometimes before I go back to China. I would do it not for the fishing alone out for the sake of tasting for the last time real American wild life. Do you think my dream will come true?
Faithfully yours,
These last three or four days nave formed the most eventful weekend in Boston so far this summer. On Friday I listened at the Sharkey-Dempsey fight over the radio, and was greatly interested to hear that the latter won. This victory means that the championship bout to be held sometimes in the coming fall will be one of the best attended boxing match in the history or the boxing world. On Saturday I had the opportunity of seeing that much-talked-about and attractive American aviator, Charles Lindbergh. I was only one of the many thousands of Bostonians, who came out to greet their national idol of the air. The city for two or three hours was in a feverish uproar when a great part or her citizens were expecting the arrival of this man, but in the wink of the eye all is quiet again. How quick "Lindy” passed by!
It is a long time since Amherst College closed for the summer, and I think that by this time the recorder must have mailed out the grades for our final examinations. So if you have already received my report and have no more need or it, please kindly send it to me, for I am very desirous to know I have made out last year. Thank you, Sir, in advance.
On the nineth [sic] of this month Arthur and Quincy left Boston for Seattle, thence they sailed for China on the nineteenth. By now they are pretty near Japan, and in less than a week they will sight, the land which was absent from their eyes for seven long years. They must feel very strange to get back.
Since Arthur a departure Tom and I are still staying in the M. I. T. dormitories, and Frank, of course, is with us. There is nothing much for us to do except exercise and play. I am not doing any studying save reading myself plays of Shakespeare. In rainy weather we would play card games or go to the moving picture show; in good days we would play tennis, or soccer, or football to suit our taste. I call this a very easy way of passing a summer, too, too easy. Next year I shall take care to find something worthwhile to do during the summer.
Some time ago this month I met one of the Andover boys. He said that he was been up in your camp for a short stay with the Hoppers. The fishing is not good, according to him, but just the same it tickled me to death to near things about the old camp. It is really one of my dreams to go up to the Diamond Stream for a week of fishing sometimes before I go back to China. I would do it not for the fishing alone out for the sake of tasting for the last time real American wild life. Do you think my dream will come true?
Faithfully yours,
Creator
Charles Sun
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
July 24, 1927
Rights
All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence