Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New York City July 1, 1929
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New York City July 1, 1929
Subject
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New York City July 1, 1929
Transcription
Dear Tom:
Thanks for your good letter, and hearty congratulations on the latest scholarship record reported from Middlebury College. I am immensely pleased and immensely proud of you. What I I like most of all about the whole record is the fact that it has shown steady improvement from the start, and that generally means more in the end than high marks by themselves alone.
I hope you will have a most satisfactory and profitable course at Columbia this summer, and that you will enjoy and profit by the renewed contacts with your Chinese friends. Be sure to pick the right kind of friends, though, for it is common knowledge that the Chinese group at Columbia includes all kinds and that some, at least, have been anything but a credit to their country or to the university. I am counting on you and Charlie to stand by the best standards and to hold rigidly to the high ideals which are sadly needed for those who are to return to their native lend to help in the making of the new and more stable China. It is nothing short of a crime the way some of the so-called Chinese students in this country have not only thrown away their opportunities, but have discredited their own nation. The Sun brothers certainly don't belong in that class, and I am sure will never line up with it.
So here’s wishing you a great summer and a record of which we shall all be proud!
Faithfully yours,
Thanks for your good letter, and hearty congratulations on the latest scholarship record reported from Middlebury College. I am immensely pleased and immensely proud of you. What I I like most of all about the whole record is the fact that it has shown steady improvement from the start, and that generally means more in the end than high marks by themselves alone.
I hope you will have a most satisfactory and profitable course at Columbia this summer, and that you will enjoy and profit by the renewed contacts with your Chinese friends. Be sure to pick the right kind of friends, though, for it is common knowledge that the Chinese group at Columbia includes all kinds and that some, at least, have been anything but a credit to their country or to the university. I am counting on you and Charlie to stand by the best standards and to hold rigidly to the high ideals which are sadly needed for those who are to return to their native lend to help in the making of the new and more stable China. It is nothing short of a crime the way some of the so-called Chinese students in this country have not only thrown away their opportunities, but have discredited their own nation. The Sun brothers certainly don't belong in that class, and I am sure will never line up with it.
So here’s wishing you a great summer and a record of which we shall all be proud!
Faithfully yours,
Creator
Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
July 1, 1929
Rights
All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence