1 10 155 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/007020580a798423ae46546ffd46d439.jpg 059ad37cb1c0957a577e665f5e8bf013 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 September-December 1926, 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 from Frank Winsor, Metropolitan District Commission, Boston, to John R. Freeman, Providence, Rhode Island, October 16, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Copy of letter from Frank Winsor, Metropolitan District Commission, Boston, to John R. Freeman, Providence, Rhode Island, October 16, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Freeman: I have your letter of October 14 calling my attention to the application of Arthur Sun for a position on this work. I have met Mr. Sun and have been favorably impressed with him, but unfortunately he is not a citizen of Massachusetts, nor of the United States, and the law contemplates giving preference to such. Under conditions existing at this moment, I cannot offer him a position, but if it should develop that we have difficulty in procuring a sufficient number of men with his training from among our citizens, I may be able to do something for him later on. I appreciate your letter and certainly shall bear his application in mind. Sincerely yours, Signed-Frank E. Winsor Chief Engineer Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frank Winsor 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 October 16, 1926 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 Frank Winsor John R. Freeman https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/746bb33c643d5c8545f6b204da3357b2.jpg 8224a524448a7b1694a2c989d4207646 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 September-December 1926, 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 from John R. Freeman, Providence, Rhode Island, to Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass, October 18, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Copy of letter from John R. Freeman, Providence, Rhode Island, to Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass, October 18, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Sun: Inclosed please find copy of a letter from my friend Frank E. Winsor, which very much disappoints me. I am wondering if you would be in a position for a while to go on his staff as a volunteer observer without salary. I will write Mr. Winsor again suggesting this possibility. If you would be interested I would also write to Mr. X.[illegible] Goodnough, Chief Engineer of the Mass. State Board of Health, who has many very interesting problems continually put up to him from all over the state of Massachusetts. Mr. Goodnough would be under the same disadvantage as Mr. Winsor from Civil Service laws, but Mr. Kennison, if he had an opening, would be in position to pay a salary. Let me know how you make out, for I assure you I am desirous of helping. Yours very truly, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John R. Freeman Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 18, 1926 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 John R. Freeman https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e24897f48481c15aae3acd3950496686.jpg 356fca284b7c67676413b5b1feb03d73 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 September-December 1926, 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 from John R. Freeman, Providence, Rhode Island, to Frank Winsor, Metropolitan Water Supply, Boston, October 14, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Copy of letter from John R. Freeman, Providence, Rhode Island, to Frank Winsor, Metropolitan Water Supply, Boston, October 14, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Winsor: I wish to call to your friendly attention Mr. Arthur Sun, a citizen of Tientsin, China, whom I have met while a student at the Mass. Institute of Technology, from which he expects to graduate at about the present time. I understand he has applied for a position with the new Metropolitan Water Supply, and has been specializing in sanitary Engineering at the Institute. I am much interested personally in having young Mr. Sun find just the right kind of a position that will put the finishing touches on his Technology training, and help him to a field of future usefulness in China. His father is one of the most eminent citizens of the great city of Tientsin, and is very friendly to Americans. As you know, I have had several Chinese students for engineering assistants, and have found them each and all exceedingly faithful and attentive to their duties, and I have the utmost confidence that you would find Mr. Arthur Sun a valuable assistant who would show the keenest interest in performing to your satisfaction whatever duties you might assign him. Yours sincerely, JRF/AM Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John R. Freeman 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 October 14, 1926 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 Frank Winsor John R. Freeman https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/447d39c33557a23deed30a2dea3bd882.jpg 8a9512c5de9c2e0df7d5aaa51cfc9a89 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 September-December 1926, 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 George A. Bushee, Thorn Mountain School, Jackson, New Hampshire, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 10, 1926 (regarding Thomas Sun) Subject The topic of the resource George A. Bushee, Thorn Mountain School, Jackson, New Hampshire, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 10, 1926 (regarding Thomas Sun) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George A. Bushee 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 September 10, 1926 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns George A. Bushee Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9e67542d590493e728d1e55887f5e6e3.jpg 6451fe3836836c46e248144717fe9682 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1257439d4c34cc3f46489b32377546e8.jpg 89e2b105a3454ae70d3e3ab9a3fec20b 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 September-December 1926, 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 (YMCA), New York City, September 15, 1926 (regarding Mary Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson (YMCA), New York City, September 15, 1926 (regarding Mary Sun) Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Robinson: I have been trying to find time to consider Mary's problem and answer properly your letter of September 11, but these opening days are hectic ones, with the office crowded every minute, and committee meetings, the last one terminating at midnight last night, more than fill the evening hours. I am trying to get hold of Charlie Sun and have wired him to call me on the phone so that I can discuss Mary's plans with him. I have also asked Mary to wire me the exact day on which she intended to leave for Elmira. If Charlie can accompany her, I shall be glad to have him go, though I am perfectly sure that Mary is capable of managing the journey alone and will even be inclined to resent a bit the suggestion that she needs a chaperone for the trip. If I can't get hold of Charlie or Arthur, therefore, I shall be disposed to let her go to Elmira alone, for she can doubtless go right through from Springfield with very little, if any changing of trains. I am enclosing a letter just received from Mary, so that you can see how she feels about the plans made for her. My feeling is that your plan is the wiser one for freshman year, at least, and I am writing Mary to this effect today. Mary enjoys immensely companionship with large groups of girls, but I am not sure that her work benefits from the contacts, though, on the whole, I don't think that she is inclined to abuse them. Anyway, the arrangements you have suggested with the Pitman family seem to me very attractive. I do hope I am going to have a chance to see you for something more than a brief and hurried visit before very long. Please let me know when you are likely to be in this vicinity again. 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 September 15, 1926 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/15035ef3941fcf5bd9484954f646788e.jpg 57664cd9b57237d8923ecc100dda8059 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f09454dc9596aa9b2f5c5fed1bc38b6c.jpg 679591385292cb59ded2e8f1b55d6539 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 September-December 1926, 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 (YMCA), St. Louis, Missouri, September 23, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson (YMCA), St. Louis, Missouri, September 23, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Robinson: Yesterday morning I received your special delivery letter of September 20, but, as I was just leaving town to place a new Chinese ward of mine in his school for the year, I have had no chance to reply until today. As it is, I am afraid I can't add much to my last letter. After visiting Elmira, your sister wired me that it seemed best to accept the dormitory plan, as this arrangement was vigorously endorsed by the college authorities. The next day I received a letter from the Registrar, urging very strongly that the dormitory arrangement be approved and stating that the proposed plan for a room in a private house outside was unusual and did not meet with the approval of the college authorities. Under the circumstances I could only wire your sister to approve the selection of the room assignment already made for Mary in a dormitory. A long letter received from Mary explains that her presence in Trenton over the week-end was due to the fact that she had to go to New York in any case to reach Elmira and would have to pass a night either there or somewhere near by on the journey. She felt, therefore, that it was not only proper but the wise thing to do to stay over the week-end with one of her school friends who lived in Trenton. I wrote her that I could not blame her for the decision but that I did blame her very severely for not keeping me fully posted as to her plans and movements, her failure to do so in this instance causing both you and myself serious anxiety and wholly unnecessary investment of time and labor. 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 September 23, 1926 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 Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d8dc24a525476d1644c445fc9d75d136.jpg 94205b90337fa41c1d23cc511279ba5d 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 September-December 1926, 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, October 15, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, Kansas City, Missouri, October 15, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Robinson: I have just received your letter of October 11. Arthur has at last succeeded in passing off the deficiencies standing between him and his Technology degree. I understand that the formal presentation of that degree will take place in December. In the meantime, we are searching for a job, and, as I have been able to interest Mr. John R. Freeman and Mr. Spencer Murray, two of the most eminent engineers in the country. I ran hopeful that our efforts will erelong be crowned with success. Arthur has been out recently to talk things over with me, and we are working together on the proposition. I have written Mr. Sun very fully and in detail about the complications and difficulties of our problem in connection with Mary's start at Elmira. From my letter Mr. Sun will certainly be able to see how earnestly you sought to carry out his wishes, and I am sure that he can never blame you if anything that savored of a failure can be recorded. Very sincerely yours, AES/G 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 October 15, 1926 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 Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c7288cc623ae62a6be993036575d993c.jpg a64bf9df42e262a94563197bb63cf49a https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4edf6f1221e9be6917cb82f4ac3984e6.jpg bfcb19d1d6753b26ac591ad42d6d3c04 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 September-December 1926, 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, October 4, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, Kansas City, Missouri, October 4, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Robinson: I have your letter of September 28 and am enclosing check to cover the expenses listed on your statement. Kindly return receipt for my files. I am dreadfully sorry about this whole unfortunate mix-up over Mary's room at Elmira. Frankly, I doubt if anything would be gained by sending Mary's letter on to her father, especially since the Elmira authorities were so emphatic in their statements to me that the plan we had discussed was unwise and that Mary was acting entirely in accord with their desires and methods in taking the dormitory room. Of course you must remember that Mary has now been in this country a number of years and is older and mature than many of the Chinese girls already in college. For the past two years, especially, I have given her increasingly more responsibility in handling her own affairs, though, even so, I imagine from what I have seen that she has been more carefully directed in such matters than almost any other Chinese girls in the country today. The one thing that I most seriously blame her for in this particular mix-up is her failure to advise me that she was planning to invest the week-end on her way to Elmira with a friend in Trenton. The plan would doubtless have had my approval had it been explained to me in advance, but, as it was, I was left in the dark for the time being as to her whereabouts and that only added to the confusion and the anxiety. Again my thanks for all you have done to aid me and my regrets for the unnecessary anxiety and trouble you have been caused. 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 October 4, 1926 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 Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b48c209c6cbd50618d17f6937a3039b5.jpg 0d1499c2e817773e1b720a583355238d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9e5e1337c8fbfe73fda6b23f84b629bf.jpg 9501c30a0a0b05075d7113cb28213ca1 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/42a3113ab6c925d7ebbf3c556abe6a36.jpg 2e861bc9b0a04c0b57dce2cf0685563d 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 September-December 1926, 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, St Louis, Missouri, September 20, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, St Louis, Missouri, September 20, 1926 Description An account of the resource Dear Mr. Robinson: Your letter of September 17 reached me Saturday afternoon and that of September 18 reached me this morning. In the meantime I have been wiring to Mary's friends and to the indefinite Trenton address, seeking information as to Mary's whereabouts and plans. I can't understand her action. She had my definite permission to visit her friend in Springfield and with the understanding that she was going direct from Springfield to Elmira. Naturally the discovery that she was in Trenton upset me badly, though I am assuming that she found it easier to reach Elmira by way of New York and chose that route, stopping over for the week-end with the friend in question. She had visited once before the school friends in Dover, Delaware, not far from Wilmington, but the Trenton friend is a new one, though doubtless O.K. Mary's Springfield friend wired yesterday, giving the exact address, and I have sent two messages to Mary since that address arrived, asking her to wire you the details of her plans, with the date and hour of arrival in Buffalo. I gave the New York address and hoped the message might reach you before you left or would be forwarded to you en route. On receipt of your second letter this morning, l with your sister's address, I wired Mary at once, again using the Trenton address, asking her to telegraph your sister the hour of her expected arrival in Buffalo, Syracuse, or Binghamton. I had to make this message a bit indefinite, as I did not know which route would be likely to prove the natural one from Trenton. The earlier assumption was that Mary was to go direct from Springfield, though Buffalo would seemingly be the objective. My fear is that this message may have arrived too late and that Mary may now be in Elmira. Naturally this action of Mary and seeming disregard of my interest and authority have distressed me greatly. It is an attitude that was apparently strongly encouraged when Mary was at Abbot Academy last year, furnishing one of the reasons why I was glad to sever that connection when I did, though I would have been willing to have put up with even this disturbing factor if it had not been necessary to make the change for scholastic reasons. Under the circumstance I am forwarding your letter to Mary, as I think you have not put the matter a bit too strongly. A wire received from Mary last Saturday reads: "Impossible to keep Mr. Robinson's plan if you wish me to be loyal to you. Letter explains." No letter of explanation has come, and what in the world Mary means by loyalty to me in the matter is beyond my comprehension. I answered that message more vigorously than ever and told her that I must insist on the full acceptance of your plan, which had her father's approval as well as my own. If I could possibly leave my duties here at this time, I should jump on the train for Elmira myself and try to straighten out the tangle. As it is I can only hope that if your sister misses Mary en route to college, she will be generous enough to make an early trip there and use her good influences to put into operation the plan on which we had agreed. As to your expenses, by all means send me a statement. I am sure that it is only right and certainly in accordance with Mr. Sun's own wishes that you should be reimbursed for all the extra cash, to say nothing of time, you have invested in this problem. I don't believe that even Mr. Sun realizes the anxious thought and time that some of us give to these interesting visitors from the Orient, but I know that it has always been his wish that every extra expense which their presence has caused should be promptly met in this way. I, too, had assumed that Mary quite understood that she was to consult me and follow my wishes before making her definite plans for a room at Elmira. Before talking with you, I had assumed, of course that she would go through rhe usual process and take a dormitory room, for it seemed to me that, in view of her five years experience in this country she would be competent to do this and without detriment to her work and standing. Frankly, my summer was about the most upset one I have ever gone through, and in view of the necessity of getting my daughter and Miss Clemons off for Europe, coupled with the critical illness of my wife, whose death for a number of weeks was regarded as only a matter of days, I am afraid that my mind did not center to the extent it should have done on Mary's particular problem. Further, I am sure that we can yet straighten matters out, and I have become sufficiently accustomed to Mary's protests against plans that did not fit in completely with her own wishes not to be unduly disturbed by that factor. I shall continue to keep you posted as to Mary's movements and progress, at least so far as Mary herself is willing to post me. 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 September 20, 1926 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/115bcfd8883016f7c46b607ac8e6f89d.jpg c91a9ea8f4ab5b107b65efac21ad33d9 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 September-December 1926, 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, Cambridge, Mass. December 13, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass. December 13, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: I am very sorry to learn from your letter just received that you have been having such a hard time with your teeth. All I can do is to hope with you that the trouble is now over and that you are not going to have to go through anything of this kind again. Why at your age your teeth should be found in such bad condition, I can't possibly understand, unless you have definitely neglected the care of them in the past. I have already mailed a check to cover the hospital expenses. Yes, I saw Mary in Elmira the Sunday before last and found her seemingly in the best of health and spirits. She hopes to pass her Christmas vacation with her friends in Springfield, where you ought to be able to get a chance to see her. 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 December 13, 1926 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