This letter was written on 25 February 1919. Mercersburg Academy headmaster, Dr. William Mann Irvine, writes
Hinman Bigelow's mother about Hinman's promises to do better in school.
February 25, 1919.
Mrs. Anna C. Bigelow,
Philadelphia, Pa.
My dear Mrs. Bigelow:
Your kind letter of recent date has been received. I permitted your son to read your letter and we discussed the same very frankly. He assures me that he is trying to keep away from the guard squad. I want him to clean up his guard record and then get no more guard. He also says that he is trying to study more faithfully than ever before. He is anxious to do some jumping in the spring term and he realizes that he must clean up his record or he will not be eligible for the team. I certainly hope that he will hold to his good resolution.
Don't worry too much about the boy. Simply do your best and with our backing we hope that we can pull him through in good style. He has a lot of fine qualities and it is just a "kiddish" different attitude on his part that makes the trouble for him. If he can change this attitude so that he will be more ambitious the battle will be won.
With very kind regards, believe me,
Most cordially yours,
William Mann Irvine
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