Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-09
Sees Hope OF New China in
the Young Men Educated
in America

lIl HlIiEllCd
How Harvard University has i'm
pressed Chang Ley, Of Hawaii, Is tolt
In an interesting letter just received
from Chang 10y by Principal VI. NJ
Scott of Mckinley High School. Tn,
young Chinese student, who was borI
at Lahaina, graduated from Mckinle,
! In 1909 and with Prof. SCOTS enc0ur
agement went to Harvard. The follow
/ ing letter Is remarkable I'm many Why's
for pure and pungent English, fOI
philosophy and point Of view unusual
| I'm any man who has just passed bis
majority. 1t gives as we'll striking
! commentary ON the New China.
| 12 Summer Road, Cambridge, Mass,
June II, 1912.
NV Dear Professor Scott:-Although
{ your letter came to me long while
ago, have not been able to find time
| to answer it, especially to tell You full
| ~ how ! have Jared so far in my col
lege course and how / enjoyed Har
ward
/ wish first of all to thank you
heartily for the kindly interest that
you take in me and in my college ca
reer. ! am, indeed, a fortunate fellow
in having suca kind. teachers and
friends as you, Mr.. Donaghho and
Mrs. Crockett / recall always with
pleasure the kindness that my former
teachers at the High School had
shown me while was their pupil. 1t
is a great pleasure for pupil to know
that, when he has left school and his
old teachers, he is remembered by
them and that they continue their
kindly interest in his new work and
I; life.
Now, as to how | have. found Har-
ward. First of all, must tell you that
/ like Harvard immensely. From the
time / arrived in Cambridge to the
present, / have enjoyed the work and
the life of the college. / like espe-
cially the freedom and the tolerant
spirit that prevail here. One is free
to work and live as one pleases, to
regulate ones life. and work in ones
own way, so long as one does ones
duty and conducts oneself like gen.
tleman. The student is his own mas
ster. There are no yexations rules to
annoy him. What rules there are,
are but reasonable and simple regu-
lations governing attendance at lee.
lures and order and quiet in the col
lege halls during study hours. In a
way, Harvard is like a little world
where the workers may conduct their
work and life in; their way, just as
free people in the work-a-day world do
theirs.
Harvard is such large institution.
One most interesting thing about the
University is that there are within it's
gates many natfonalities and nnmer:
Gus types of students, or rather class
es of student, when you consider them
on the basis of wealth, social posi-
ton, and general tenderness of mind
and temperament. 7 mean there are
those who are extremely rich and who
are supplied abundantly with the ma
terial good things of life; those who
have. to work their way through COL
lege but who do so courageously and
cheerfully; those who have been ac-
customed from childhood, perhaps, to
move in. a social circle apart from
the common people" amid the luxu-
ries and artificial refinement of wealth
as well. as the true refinement of cul-
ture OF some; those who know only
the simple society of farming coun-
try or little town in the energetic
West; those who are conservative and
loyal to, and completely or practical
IL completely satisfied with, the eX-
listing order and arrangement of
things; those who are radical but en-
thrisiastic, those who are scholars:
those who. take life easy" in regard
to scholastic matters; those who care
much for religion; and those who are
apparently indifferent to it. What
Variety You can easily imagine what
an interesting community this large
body of young men FORM find this
more interesting than the little body
of men in the little college. There
are, must tell you, even some social
lists among us, who are pretty bril-
liant advocats of their ideas and be-
liefs. But in the midst of such. diver
sification of types of men, and among
all, there prevails a tolerant spirit,
a friendliness, at least friendly cour-
tesy.
Freedom, / have said, is charac-
teristic of Harvard life For freedom
to follow ones own bent and interests,
a respect for ones legitimate pursuits,
good-natured and generous tolerance
of ideas and opinions in general, one
can find no better place then Har-
ward. Thus, if one has plan to work
out, one will find conditions favorable.
And one has adequate means to work
out the plan, as far as scholastic
means, general and professional, are
concerned. One finds here, all the i'm
portant departments of arts and Sci
ences, general and applied, some with
the most excellent equipment and 9TH
ers with at least tolerable equipment.
What is far more important Harvard
has the men-men who are specialists
in their lines and of recognized auth
ority in their respective fields of
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