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

How Harvard University has I'M
pressed Chang 10y, OF Hawaii. Is told
in nm interesting letter just received
from Chang 10y by Principal NJ. NJ
Scott Of Mckinley High School The
young Chinese student, who was born
at Lahaina, graduated from Mckinley
In 1909 and with Prof. Sc0tt's enc0ur.
agement went to Harvard. The follow.
Ing letter Is remarkable in many ways
for pure and pHngent English, for
philosophy and point Of view unusual
In any man who has just passed bis
majority. Ii gives as well Il striking
commentary on the New China.
/. Il Summer Road Cambridge, Mass,
/ June II, 1872
! Nv Dear Professor Scott:-AHhough
your letter came to me a long while
! ago, / have not been able to find time
to answer it, especially to tell you full
/ ly- how have Jared so far in nay 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, fortunate fellow
in having SUCH 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 l was their pupil. 1t
is great pleasure for pupil to know
! that, when he has left school and his
I old teachers, he is remembered by
them and that they continue their
! kindly interest in his new work and
| 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. l. 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 vexations 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 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 a large institution
One most interesting thing about the
University is that there are within it's
gates many nationalities and numer-
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 / 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 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
Ily completely satisfied with, the ex-
listing order and arrangement of
things; those who are radical but en-
thusiastic, 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, i 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 tolerant spirit,
friendliness, at least friendly cour-l
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 eth
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
knowledge and learning. As an insti-,
tuition of Tearing, Harvard is hard to
surpass.
If you will remember, l had two
pOintS ta make mn when 7 ontorad COL