Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, May 19, 1930
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, May 19, 1930
Subject
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, May 19, 1930
Transcription
Dear Tom:
I have read with interest your letter just received.
Frankly, I am sure that your father would not be at all enthusiastic about a summer spent wholly in traveling about, valuable as it would unquestionably be for you to see same thing of this big country. Further, I can’t believe that a car is necessary merely to cover the periods between the close of college and a summer school session and the close of that session and the opening of the next college year, “the world has changed mightily if this is true, and while I know that it has changed some, I am sure that it has not changed to quite that extent as yet. After all, the problem of the intervening periods between the closing of a college year and the regular summer session in camp or school and the intervening period which must be faced again before college opens in the fall is a problem which has been with you and all the other Chinese ever since you first came to this country. More than that, it is a problem which faces a great many other boys as well, and I am not aware that the possession of a car has been found to be the only or even common solution.
But I don't want to be unfair at all in this matter, nor do I feel competent to advise you on the basis alone of the reports contained in your letter. It looks as if we ought to sit down together some time and talk things out face to face, and if you can get down here some time just before or just after graduation. I think we can probably work out a satisfactory program.
Very sincerely yours,
I have read with interest your letter just received.
Frankly, I am sure that your father would not be at all enthusiastic about a summer spent wholly in traveling about, valuable as it would unquestionably be for you to see same thing of this big country. Further, I can’t believe that a car is necessary merely to cover the periods between the close of college and a summer school session and the close of that session and the opening of the next college year, “the world has changed mightily if this is true, and while I know that it has changed some, I am sure that it has not changed to quite that extent as yet. After all, the problem of the intervening periods between the closing of a college year and the regular summer session in camp or school and the intervening period which must be faced again before college opens in the fall is a problem which has been with you and all the other Chinese ever since you first came to this country. More than that, it is a problem which faces a great many other boys as well, and I am not aware that the possession of a car has been found to be the only or even common solution.
But I don't want to be unfair at all in this matter, nor do I feel competent to advise you on the basis alone of the reports contained in your letter. It looks as if we ought to sit down together some time and talk things out face to face, and if you can get down here some time just before or just after graduation. I think we can probably work out a satisfactory program.
Very sincerely yours,
Creator
Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
May 19, 1930
Rights
All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence