1 10 99 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1e8c2f573e2c2b52fb9a7820da26f201.jpg 64e8198d7e8204ce2fd1c32cf634093e https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/344a663ebfc29fc3f70059c12e4dca3c.jpg e16f2d69060e758b3827819370dac369 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Copy of letter (for Stearns) from Ernestine H. French, Elmira College, to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., January 11, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Copy of letter (for Stearns) from Ernestine H. French, Elmira College, to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., January 11, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Sze: After receiving your letter yesterday asking for a frank report on the status and prospects of Mary Sun, I looked up her record in the Dean's office and found that Mary had received only one "warning" (which means unsatisfactory work) and that was in French last month. I found in talking with the Dean that Mary was allowed and advised by her to drop French because of the natural linguistic difficulties which, combined with an otherwise hard schedule, made the continuance of French this first semester too difficult for her. It will only mean the making up of two hours which can be done much more easily at some future time when college work and everything connected with it are not so new and strange. Even without the French Mary is carrying fourteen hours a week, including the laboratories. I have talked with each of the professors in the departments in which Mary is working -- Biology, Chemistry, English and Bible and find that they all agree that Mary is an average student doing passing work. Miss Whittaker, head of the biological department said that some time ago she had asked one of the young instructors to give some special attention to Mary and Tsao Ching to familiarize them with terms and to go over some of the points that the other students had previously had in High School. This seems to have helped them very much and their work has been quite satisfactory. Miss Eastom reports that Mary does very good work in Chemistry, in fact much better than that done by some of the American students. Professor Mould reports that Mary's work in Bible is like that of the average American student -- it is passing but not particularly good. In English, also, the report is that there is no question of Mary's not passing -- she is doing satisfactory though not excellent work. Her English teacher told me that she had felt that Mary might do better in English and that she wanted her to improve and so had been a little severe with her. She feels that Mary is, perhaps, a little "spoiled" and apt to become discouraged if she is not praised and made a great deal of. Her idea in telling Mary that she must do better work and show more improvement in her English work was that a little wholesome criticism would be good for the girl. Nearly every girl has a period of discouragement during her first year at College. There are so many new adjustments even for the native students to make, that it is quite natural that the difficulties should at times seem insurmountable to the girls and Page two that they should be tempted to want to give the whole thing up. Added to this very natural situation which must be faced by almost everyone, is Mary's present physical condition which makes everything look dark to her. She came back from the Christmas vacation with a very bad cold. Our resident physician is looking after her and makes Mary lie down and rest for one hour every afternoon. This rest is in place, I believe of the regular gymnasium work, and is a very excellent thing in every way for a girl who is temporarily run down. We all feel that it would be a very great mistake for Mary to leave college now. She has really passed through the most difficult part -- and successfully, although not with such distinction as she evidently would have liked. Examinations being this week and that is another thing which makes her anxious. Her professors have assured me that she is likely to pass although she herself seems to think that her marks are so poor that she is ashamed of them. I believe that she rates her accomplishments too low and the possibilities of achievement under the circumstances, too high. Mary is well liked by the students and made a great deal of by them. She has been invited several times to spend the week-end in Corning at the beautiful home of Mrs. Samuel Hawkes whose daughter was at Sea Pines Camp with Mary, but Mary has never accepted the invitations, thinking that she was too busy with her work. Professor Mould of the department of Bible and Mrs. Mould plan to entertain Mary with some of the other students in their home very soon. Of course, I have had Mary at my house and have asked her to come whenever she can, but she has not accepted without a special invitation. Personally, I feel, very strongly that Mary's feeling of discouragement, while perhaps natural under the circumstances, should not be taken seriously. She is doing as good work as the average student and all conditions surrounding her college life, so far as I can see, are pleasant, wholesome and beneficial. I believe that it would be a very grave mistake for her to be allowed to "give up." I trust that this report will be of assistance. You and Dr. Stearns may rest assured that a very personal interest is taken in Mary as in all of "our girls" at Elmira. We want each and everyone of them not only to develop into the best possible women but to be happy in doing so. President Lent as you know takes a very special interest in each student. He has asked to have a talk with Mary tomorrow. With very cordial good wishes for the New Year to you and Madame Sze, I am Sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ernestine H. French Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 11, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Ernestine French Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ce1810a323a6764189a6e367a52dd6a9.jpg 14b5cd244e128f5df8c8174c3c5c9e52 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Envelope from Elmira College for mail to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., January 18, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Envelope from Elmira College for mail to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., January 18, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elmira College Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 18, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Envelope Elmira College Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/967903ac0d3f6789b6d484c1c3a06e8d.jpg c973f9f620ef6a3d287ea71fc3fc5683 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c6b3b1813de2dbbe6685869484718853.jpg 6bfee960bff148a9028c5e350bd200d3 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c4e0c195f5969444c464511f75c0d5a3.jpg 4c76b2f2dbb428244a58ff6491aded16 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b12ed79fe6be39aab567f8394aa7590f.jpg 700df6a834d28a654123479b90c48c96 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Financial account of Mary Sun, July 15, 1926 to January 20, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Financial account of Mary Sun, July 15, 1926 to January 20, 1927 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 15, 1926 to January 20, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Financial account Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/76af2c94933f6957c920d8f0de36c277.jpg 1795559664098e097e6c4cc70928b181 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Financial account of Thomas Sun, January 20-December 5, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Financial account of Thomas Sun, January 20-December 5, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 20-December 5, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Financial account Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/957a5950e917320c8013e28700f38bf4.jpg 21f32ac143dd0dd1f28f9ca0e9d8abb7 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d9bd8526806a81cfd32d878b0e3b5b84.jpg 51963f717f97ef529539942a3d705aad Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, Kansas City, Missouri, January 28, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, Kansas City, Missouri, January 28, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Robinson: I have your letter of January 19 but have delayed my answer owing to my recent absence from home. Yes, Arthur Sun is working for the Metropolitan Water Company, a position there having been secured for him by the combined efforts of Mr. Freeman, Mr. Spencer Murray, and some of his Technology instructors. I hear from him constantly, and he seems to be enjoying and profiting by his work. He secured the position after he finally passed off his Tech examinations and became eligible for the coveted degree. I hope you will have a chance to see the children before you go back to China. Mary, as you know, is at Elmira College, but seemingly quite homesick and, according to her letters, eager to return to China next summer. Apparently her homesickness and discouragement are due almost wholly to the fact that she had always expected to be able to go back this year and has recently been told by her father that she was not to return until her college course had been completed. At about the same time Mr. Sun wrote Arthur urging him to remain still another year. This put Arthur "up in the air" also, and I think that the two youngsters have reacted on each other. Their letters to me, at least, have been distinctly distressing, and both have urged me to do what I could to get their father to relent. I imagine, though I may be wrong, that Mr. Sun is naturally loath to have the children return to China until conditions there have settled down a bit. Charlie is of course, at Amherst and Tom at Middlebury College. Just when their vacations come, I don't know but they will doubtless give you the information if you ask them direct. Frank Lin is still plugging away at Tech trying to win his degree, and Sheh is rounding out his final year at Bowdoin with a splendid record behind him. Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 28, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur G. Robinson Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3a17cee426ddfc43015e4326aa1a1706.jpg 610e362de74a57b8890f3b6f7eda4b36 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, April 29, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, April 29, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: I am sending on your allowance a day or two ahead of time, as requested. Unfortunately I am leaving Andover to-morrow, Saturday, for the University of Michigan and Detroit and shall not be back again until the middle of next week, I hope you can arrange to come out after my return. Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 29, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/817191af20d7e2a8e61f11cf7d555493.jpg fff63f97a5160679afb005ae215ffce0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, April 9, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, April 9, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: On my return to Andover I find your letter of April 1st enclosing receipt for the $20.00 which I recently sent you. Mary has been in Washington with the Chinese Minister for her vacation and stopped off in New York for a night last week on her way back to Elmira. I was in New York at the time but did not know just what her plans were then and so did not see her. She stayed there with a friend and with Mr. Sze’s approval. Only a day or two ago I received a letter from your father dated March 1st. In it he speaks of hearing from Quincey’s father that Quincey is to return to China the latter part of June and asks me to provide him with the necessary funds. In the following paragraph he says: "Should Arthur decide to return home I shall ask you to do the same by him in regard to all matters of travel and such necessary expenses and also the $100.00 for pocket money. Should he wish in addition to have $300.00 or $400.00 for the purchase of instruments or other things which it would be difficult for him to procure out here you may advance this additional amount. In view of the above, I am sure that you are likely to hear more definitely from your father soon, if indeed you have not already heard. From the present chaos which seems to prevail in China I should judge that your father might hesitate to urge you to go back at this time, though I can readily understand your own personal desire to take your proper part in the activities which are likely to prove of such tremendous significance to China in years to come. If you do hear anything farther or more definite, please let me know. It might also be well for you to get in touch with Quincey and find out just what his plans are. Very sincerely yours Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 9, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7dfdb815777fd61a0e71bc72bf0d5b89.jpg d7a515b69e5382fdad4812a4ded898fc https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/02a7635fdfd790234cd6097bb5cab771.jpg 939411bae8e15371cc9a18ddd5cb4c18 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 19, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 19, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: I have read with deep interest your last letter. It is one of the best you have ever written me, for it indicates careful thought and deliberation on your part. Further, in spite of quite a few grammatical errors, you have expressed your thought well. I am immensely interested in your problem but hardly know what to advise. Of course I can’t blame you for wishing to go home at the end of this year: nor can I blame Mary, for, as I think you and I both realize, it is really much harder for a girl to endure this long separation from home than it is for us of the other sex. Naturally I can understand your father’s desire that Mary should finish her college course before going home. On the other hand, I am inclined to think that a break and visit in the old home, even if it were for only the summer months, would freshen Mary up a lot and tend to offset her present discouragement. I realize only too well that she can't do justice to her studies if she is going to continue in her present frame of mind. Again, in your own case I don't, of course, know what to advise, for this is clearly your father's responsibility, and I have no doubt he has given the matter long and careful thought. I sometimes wonder whether he is not more concerned than he is willing to admit to you over the chaotic conditions now prevailing in China and the possibility of further and more extended troubles in the near future. Under such circumstances it would be only natural if he preferred to have you postpone the home-coming until things had settled down a bit, for, if conditions are anything approaching what the reports indicate them to be, an engineer, or any other professional man for that matter, would certainly find it more than difficult to make a good start. I don't feel that I can properly urge your father to take any action which does not commend itself to him as wise, but if he gives me the opportunity to do so, I shall be ready and glad to stress your side of the matter and explain why I can't help feeling a good bit of sympathy with your position. No, I have not heard from your father yet. Indeed I have received no word from him for many months. I can only hope that he will send me a word in the not distant future to indicate a little more clearly what he has in mind, so that I will have some ground on which to discuss the matter further with him. What you say about Tom interests and pleases me immensely, for I had come to have something of the same feeling about him myself, though I really saw very little of him when he was here. His letters, however, and the way he has been handling his money would seem to indicate that he had been developing better balance and judgment than were his in times past. I have not yet received his scholarship report for the first semester but am hoping for the best. Tom assures me that the report is going to be an excellent one, but I can’t trust too much to his hopes, for, as you know, he has always been an optimist in his predictions, though the predictions were rarely fulfilled in the actual reports from the office. Don’t hesitate to run out here some evening if you care to discuss matters further and more intimately. I am eager to do everything I can to help but naturally feel my limitations. Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 19, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2a459514531f20d035cff51043e1150d.jpg 4a33ef41d0d327b26cf1dcaa83fcd22a https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2411e68ad9468e0f0b455c58819f0306.jpg e30c43bd5ac1827b183057d0b40bf13a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 8, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 8, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: Thank you for your letter received this morning. You will note that I am using the new address which you have just sent me. I am interested in your hint that Tom seems to you to have changed a lot lately. Please tell me frankly in what way he has changed and whether you think it is for the better or for the worse. I never feel altogether easy about Tom, as you know, and if he needs checking up, I am sure that my good friend Pres. Moody of Middlebury will find a way to do it. No, I have not heard from your father for many months, and I can't help feeling a bit anxious, owing to the newspaper reports of the critical conditions that are developing in China. Evidently Peking and Shanghai have not suffered seriously as yet, but it looks to me now as if this developing antagonism towards foreigners in general would not go down until a real crisis has occurred. Of course these angry mobs are ill advised, and yet I am not sure that we can blame them altogether, for I can never get over the shock I received myself when I was in China, as I noted the arrogance and injustice so characteristic of the attitude of many of the foreigners whom I met. If only China could settle down, unite on a common policy and a strong leader, all of the thorns which have been pricking her flesh for years, including foreign concessions, tariff, extraterritoriality, and the rest, would speedily and permanently be done away with just as was the case in Japan when Japan went at the thing in the right way. You fellows, when you return to China will have a wonderful chance to help straighten out a bad tangle and put your country in a position that ought properly to be hers. I don’t think your idea of a night school course or two is crazy at all; indeed it seems to me pretty sound, especially as the bulk of your present work, as I understand it, is to be out of doors and more or less physical. That means that you ought to be able to take on a little real study even in the evening without harm and with some evident advantages. Don’t overdo it, though. With best wishes for the new year, believe me Always sincerely yours. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 8, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c905ea0d18779657b3ecd6ca851bd1e5.jpg 86964f57f41140353814efe76fe1562d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, June 7, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, June 7, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 7, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: The enclosed bill came to me some time ago without any comments as to who the purchaser might be. I wrote for information, as you will note, and learned this this charge covered a wardrobe trunk ordered by you which Winship is still holding awaiting a notification as to where it is to be sent. If the bill is correct, please OK it and return it to me for payment. Faithfully yours, Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns