Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to H.K. Tu, August 12, 1927
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Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to H.K. Tu, August 12, 1927
Subject
Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to H.K. Tu, August 12, 1927
Description
Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to H.K. Tu. Unsure of what further preparations are required so son can take up dentistry. Explains most dentistry schools require a college degree. States there are some that require less, but unknown how much less. States son is currently at Andover. Unsure if son can keep up at Andover. Will do what he can to help.
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Home Camp,
Pittsburg, N. H.,
August 12, 1927.
Mr. H. R. Tu,
C/O Hr. H. L. Tong,
Chille River Commission,
Tientsin, China.
My dear Hr. Tu;
I am very grateful for your letter of July 15, and for the copy of your letter to your boy. The sentiment you have express in the letter meets my full approval. I can only hope that your boy will take to heart and profit by it, such sane and wholesome advice.
It is difficult for me to say just what further preparations your son will require to enable him to take up the definite study of dentistry. The Harvard Dental School, probably the best in the country, now requires a college degree from the students who enter it. This would mean, of course, a much longer period of preparation, and I doubt whether you would wish your boy to consider it. There are excellent dental schools which require much less for admission, but just how much I do not know, for it is unusual for our boys to enter that profession, at least, until they have secured their college degrees. On my return to Andover next month, I shall look into the matter and may be able to advise you more fully.
In the meantime, your boy is to take up work with us at Phillips Academy this fall and I shall be, therefore, much better able to learn at first hand of his abilities and possibilities for the future. He has needed a pretty thorough grounding in more elementary subjects than we teach at Phillips Academy. That is why I have been willing to allow him to take the work elsewhere up to this time. I am still a bit doubtful as to his ability to carry the higher work that will be required of him at Andover, but we will give him a chance and reserve final judgment until later. I cannot feel that he has made the best use of his time to date, and have told him that it seemed to me that he ought to be progressing more rapidly. This last year I have come to feel that he has developed more ambitions and has worked harder. If this impression is correct his progress from now on ought to be much more marked.
I can assure you that I shall do every thing in my power to urge him to make the best possible out of the opportunity you have given him, and which comes only once in a boys lifetime.
With kindest personal regards, believe me.
Very sincerely yours,
Pittsburg, N. H.,
August 12, 1927.
Mr. H. R. Tu,
C/O Hr. H. L. Tong,
Chille River Commission,
Tientsin, China.
My dear Hr. Tu;
I am very grateful for your letter of July 15, and for the copy of your letter to your boy. The sentiment you have express in the letter meets my full approval. I can only hope that your boy will take to heart and profit by it, such sane and wholesome advice.
It is difficult for me to say just what further preparations your son will require to enable him to take up the definite study of dentistry. The Harvard Dental School, probably the best in the country, now requires a college degree from the students who enter it. This would mean, of course, a much longer period of preparation, and I doubt whether you would wish your boy to consider it. There are excellent dental schools which require much less for admission, but just how much I do not know, for it is unusual for our boys to enter that profession, at least, until they have secured their college degrees. On my return to Andover next month, I shall look into the matter and may be able to advise you more fully.
In the meantime, your boy is to take up work with us at Phillips Academy this fall and I shall be, therefore, much better able to learn at first hand of his abilities and possibilities for the future. He has needed a pretty thorough grounding in more elementary subjects than we teach at Phillips Academy. That is why I have been willing to allow him to take the work elsewhere up to this time. I am still a bit doubtful as to his ability to carry the higher work that will be required of him at Andover, but we will give him a chance and reserve final judgment until later. I cannot feel that he has made the best use of his time to date, and have told him that it seemed to me that he ought to be progressing more rapidly. This last year I have come to feel that he has developed more ambitions and has worked harder. If this impression is correct his progress from now on ought to be much more marked.
I can assure you that I shall do every thing in my power to urge him to make the best possible out of the opportunity you have given him, and which comes only once in a boys lifetime.
With kindest personal regards, believe me.
Very sincerely yours,
Creator
Dr. Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
August 12, 1927
Rights
All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence