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                <text>My dear Mr. Sun:&#13;
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I am enclosing a report which I have just received from the Sea Pines School which Mary attended during the past summer months and which I am sure will please you. Mary evidently did her best to make the most of the opportunities offered her at the school, and the report indicates how well she seemingly succeeded. The last word I had from her from Elmira was to the effect that she was busily engaged in her new work and happy in the new life and contacts. I hope to see her early in December, as I accepted an invitation to preach at the college at that time, and chiefly that I might have this chance to see for myself how things were going. &#13;
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Arthur writes me that he has finally succeeded in passing off the last of the requirements that have stood between him and his degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is good news indeed, and we are now trying to find a place where he can get some practical engineering experience for the coming months. I have written to both Mr. John R. Freeman and Mr.  Spencer Murray, who are the most eminent engineers in this country, and have received the friendliest kind of letters in reply. Both of these gentlemen have promised to use their influence to help find Arthur the right kind of a position and have already written letters in his behalf. Mr. Freeman you know personally, I believe. Mr. Murray has two boys in school with us at the present time; so that the approaches in both cases were simple and direct. I venture to quote the closing paragraph in Mr. Freeman's letter received only this morning: &#13;
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This morning's mail also brings me a letter from Charlie, in which he tells me of his work and life at Amherst. All the reports I can get from my friends at Amherst, and I naturally have many there, for that was my own college and the town my home town for most of my life, are enthusiastically commendatory of Charlie and his work and spirit. &#13;
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I have had nothing very recently from Tom, though the last reports were good, and I have reason to hope that he is making an earnest start in his college life. &#13;
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                <text>Dear Sir:-&#13;
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As stated in the Dummer booklet, a subscription of ten dollars a year is asked from parents [and] guardians for the support of athletics. Will you indicate whether we may count on you for aid in this department of our school work.&#13;
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All the students enjoy athletics and profit by them. We can arrange such matters to better advantage if we know beforehand about what our revenues will be from subscriptions. We enclose a stamped envelope for reply,&#13;
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Dear Sir:&#13;
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Will you kindly advise us in regard to the work, progress, and conduct of Mr. Fayuen Sun, a Chinese boy who has recently been attending your school? I am acting as Mr. Sun’s American guardian and adviser, but the boy has been disposed to take some matters pretty much into his own hands, and I am anxious to know whether or not he is conducting himself and doing his work in a creditable way. Will you please write me frankly and fully in regard to him?&#13;
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