Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn. February 16, 1929
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn. February 16, 1929
Subject
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn. February 16, 1929
Transcription
February 16, 1929
Miss Mary Sun
62 Park Street
New Haven, Conn.
My dear Mary:
I have this morning received your letter and in the same mail one from Dean Goodrich. I have just written Miss Goodrich expressing my approval of the plan to have you secure special tutoring in your Physiology. If with this outside help you are not able to bring your standing up to the proper grade, I think we shall be reluctantly compelled to agree that we must give up the idea of any further education for you in America. I should hate to do this, but I can't see how any other conclusion could properly be reached.
What troubles me most is the intimation given by your Dean, an intimation which I also received from your Dean at Elmira, that you have not done work of a grade commensurate with your real ability. Perhaps they are mistaken but I did hope and believe, because of your seeming interest in nursing, that you would convince everyone from the start that you were giving yourself heart and soul to your studies, even though you might not be able to attain a high rank in them.
Anyway, the thing to do now is to see Miss Goodrich at once and secure a good tutor. Never mind the expense. Before everything else you must establish your standing in the Yale School and not face the possibility of having to drop out of the end of the year.
Very sincerely yours.
AES/G
Miss Mary Sun
62 Park Street
New Haven, Conn.
My dear Mary:
I have this morning received your letter and in the same mail one from Dean Goodrich. I have just written Miss Goodrich expressing my approval of the plan to have you secure special tutoring in your Physiology. If with this outside help you are not able to bring your standing up to the proper grade, I think we shall be reluctantly compelled to agree that we must give up the idea of any further education for you in America. I should hate to do this, but I can't see how any other conclusion could properly be reached.
What troubles me most is the intimation given by your Dean, an intimation which I also received from your Dean at Elmira, that you have not done work of a grade commensurate with your real ability. Perhaps they are mistaken but I did hope and believe, because of your seeming interest in nursing, that you would convince everyone from the start that you were giving yourself heart and soul to your studies, even though you might not be able to attain a high rank in them.
Anyway, the thing to do now is to see Miss Goodrich at once and secure a good tutor. Never mind the expense. Before everything else you must establish your standing in the Yale School and not face the possibility of having to drop out of the end of the year.
Very sincerely yours.
AES/G
Creator
Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
February 16, 1929
Rights
All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence