1 10 66 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c73904bd48eb9e4eed1e811cbdc3e2e9.jpg 7bc60afe234511b87b1749224a7bfd77 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 July-December 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 Arthur Sun, MIT Dorm, to Alfred E. Stearns, June 5, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Arthur Sun, MIT Dorm, to Alfred E. Stearns, June 5, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Arthur 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 June 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 Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2e77d1bd41f4cf53bb376d0ad13ff8cd.jpg 08b72dc822d62d890e2d10fdf30abb39 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 July-December 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 Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., to Alfred E. Stearns, June 29, 1927 (inquires about Alfred and Helen Tsai) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., to Alfred E. Stearns, June 29, 1927 (inquires about Alfred and Helen Tsai) Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Stearns: I write to inquire about Admiral Tsai’s two children. What are their plans for the Summer? What progress have they made in their studies during the last scholastic year? With best wishes for a pleasant Summer. Yours sincerely. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sao-Ke Alfred Sze 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 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1657542badf5f27a29a41ecb7bb493ef.jpg db45353e3d034af98917ac3a042c6321 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 July-December 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 Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., to Alfred E. Stearns, June 29, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., to Alfred E. Stearns, June 29, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Stearns: I think it was in May when we wrote and asked Mary Sun whether she would come to spend a part of her Summer vacation with us in the country. She answered that she had planned to attend the Cornell Summer School in Ithaca and in the intervening period between the closing of the Elmira College and the opening of the Summer School she had accepted an invitation to go to Connecticutt [sic]. Therefore she is not able to come to visit us. I was in Odessa, N.Y., on June 12th. I wanted to go and visit her at Elmira College but I was told by Miss Couch, a sophmore [sic] in that College, that the College had closed and all the students had gone. From Miss Couch I learnt that Mary was quite popular in the College and also successful in her studies. With best wishes. Yours sincerely, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sao-Ke Alfred Sze 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 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1f37486d0c8f7eb02fe40a292f3fa0bd.jpg 0fd396ac4f0cae21803705ae43309c1a https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f88d8b640c2423e196c89a216a358bec.jpg 518c3a17912e30993d40c3de77e405ee 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 July-December 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 Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese legation, Washington, D.C., July 1, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese legation, Washington, D.C., July 1, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Sze: Your two letters of June 29 have just reached me, and, curiously, at a time when the Tsai children have been on the grounds here with me. They have been devoting the time intervening between the close of their schools and the opening of their summer camps, which they are entering this week, half in Andover and half at South Weymouth with Dr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Nye, who are old friends of their father. Both of the Tsai children have been doing well this past year, Helen especially so. Mrs. Russell of the Whittier School tells me that she is one of the finest girls that she has ever had under her care, and this seems to be the general verdict of those who meet Helen. She is alert and intelligent, friendly and jovial, and always eager to do her best and gratify her father’s ambitions for her. Mrs. Russell thinks she should have another year but I am not quite sure that this will be the best plan, as most of the girls there are younger than Helen and I am inclined to think that it would be better for her to get into a somewhat larger school and with girls more nearly her own age. Admiral Tsai has written me that he doesn’t care to have her go to college; so that I am considering several of the best finishing schools known to me, notably St. Margaret’s up on the Hudson between New York and Albany and the Walnut Hill School at Natick, Mass. Helen seems to prefer the latter, and largely on account of the location, for she will then be a little nearer her brother and me. I have arranged for her to put in the next two months at Camp Onaway at Newfound Lake, New Hampshire, a girl’s camp of excellent standing and highly recommended to me by some of my friends who are familiar with it and with those in charge. Helen left for the camp only this morning, and I hope to run up there myself within a few days and see that everything is all right. Alfred makes rather slow progress in his studies and is not always responsive to advice and suggestion. I doubt whether he will be able to do our work, even in the lowest class, next year, though he will be tested out at the end of the summer, for it is possible that he will have been able to build up a stronger foundation by that time. He is here at present, but leaves for his camp tomorrow morning. The camp to which he is going is located on the other side of Newfound Lake; so that he will be only a few miles from his sister who will probably be able to see him occasionally. The camp is in charge of Mr. Sanborn, the Superintendent of our local schools in Andover, a man of good character and refinement, and I am truly glad to have Alfred under his care. Mary Sun and her brothers Arthur and Charlies called on me a few days ago. The Tsai children had just arrived; so that we had the pleasure of giving them all a chance to meet one another at my home. Mary seems in much better spirits than earlier in the year and apparently has been doing better in her work. She plans to spend most of the summer at the Cornell Summer School, and I asked her when she was here to get in touch with you and find out whether you were going to be at Ithaca or not. I was very anxious that she should be in touch with you if you did plan to be there this summer. During the winter I accepted an invitation from Elmira College to speak to their girls there at one of their Sunday exercises, and I did so largely for the opportunity the visit gave me to see Mary and find out from her teachers how she was getting along. The reports, on the whole, were favorable, though I judge from what was told me that Mary was finding the sledding a bit hard at first but would doubtless increase her momentum as she went further along. As you probably know, Arthur Sun, together with Quincey Sheh, is to return to China in a few weeks. The latter, by the way, has made a very brilliant record at Bowdoin College and was the only boy in this class to receive the highest honors in English at his graduation. Tom Sun has just finished his freshman year at Middlebury College and his marks indicate that he has done much better in his work than any of us, I think, had anticipated would be the case. He has also handled his money with greater discretion than formerly; so that I am quite pleased at this year’s development in his case. Charlie Sun has done splendidly at Amherst, got high marks in all his work, and shown those same qualities of common sense and dependability that have won my confidence from the start. If you have any further suggestions in regard to any of these words of mine, I do hope you will be perfectly free to offer them. It is not always clear to me that I am doing the best that can be done for them, though it has ever been my aim to do just that, at least so far as my best judgment would permit. With kindest personal regards, believe 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 July 1, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9427ded3179591e7244719eaaa0c2676.jpg 435d531659fb7c8961fcbaa5af42fefd https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/72d6b18c415b81d4ea6196355af2698d.jpg 5fc0fcf4b48e81946d35ca8e24b85e28 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/603156074f66a3c339af8bc05ed8eaf5.jpg ec145f6ce3a6571a598beec319cd710b https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c184ae027de8d9fa7b3bdb502e1683a9.jpg 8a7d512c5abbae57122a2c52de68ca88 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 July-December 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 Mary Sun, Cornell University, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 4, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Cornell University, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 4, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary 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 July 4, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0ee57621a1c238b00a388c699f93f105.jpg 7da6d1b2a4bbfb27a6133391399832f6 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 July-December 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 Mary Sun, Cornell University, July 7, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Cornell University, July 7, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: On my return to Andover last night. I found your letter of July 4 and am enclosing herewith another check for $300.00. though with some hesitation, for it seems to me that we are piling up expenses pretty fast, and if, as you intimate, the board and laboratory fees are the only extra items that we did not discuss when I gave you the $200.00 recently, you will be carrying a big balance. I do not see why this should not take care of your expenses well into the next college year. I hope so anyway. When it comes to the presents for your family,I am not capable of judging, of course, what you ought to spend, for I know what a tradition it is among the Chinese to be generous with their presents to their family and friends, and I have no wish to curtail any proper expense in that direction. On the other hand, you must be extra careful in the matter of other items when they come up, in view of this special outlay at this time. By the way, Dr. Sze has recently written me saying that he had invited you for a visit this summer but that you had declined the invitation. He asked for information about you and the boys as to your whereabouts, plans, etc., and I gave him such light on the subject as I could. In the meantime I wish you would write him or Mrs. Sze and make your own statement as to your summer plans. Faithfully 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 July 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f0dd776d88948cddac0f9965d9df6a4a.jpg 637addd6424d6a1e42157677b334d27e 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 July-December 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 Mary Sun, Cornell University, July 8, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Cornell University, July 8, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: I have just received a most distressing letter from the Dean of Elmira College. Miss Harris, who tells me that she is writing you in the endeavor to stir your pride and induce you to apply yourself as you should to your college work. She tells me further that you would have been dismissed from the college this spring if you had not been a foreigner, and she adds that your whole trouble rises from your social inclination and the fact that you waste your time deplorably. Just why this information was not sent me long ago, I don't know. I am protesting that I should have been kept more fully and promptly advised of your situation and that in the future I shall expect that this will be done. On the other hand, this doesn't in any way release you from the responsibility that properly rests on you to make better use of your time from now on, to eliminate whatever social activities are interfering with your work, and to save yourself from the possibility even of the lasting disgrace that would be brought on you and your family if you were to be dismissed from college because of your unwillingness to do the work required of you. I can't believe that you would openly court a disaster such as this, knowing what it would mean to you as well as to your home, and I am hoping that the hard work you will do this summer will, in part at least, offset the losses of the past year and enable you to take up your work at Elmira next fall in an utterly changed frame of mind and with that vigor of which I know you are perfectly capable. 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 July 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5e99030c4eb5baf12dff53d8d6796774.jpg 9d65f47b401037fbccee429471d3c9d7 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 July-December 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 M.M. Harris, Dean, Elmira College, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 7, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from M.M. Harris, Dean, Elmira College, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 7, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear sir, I am writing by this mail to Miss Sun, a student at Elmira College last year. The object of the letter to her is to stir her pride and induce her to apply herself as she should to her work. We should have dismissed her this spring were it not for the fact that she is a foreigner contending with the English language and therefore at a disadvantage special to such students. The language is however not her most evident handicap. That is her own social inclination. She wastes time deplorably. If you have influence you can bring to bear to induce her to really go to work I think it will be a kindness to her and we at Elmira will be spared the embarrassment of having to dismiss her at next mid-years. Very cordially yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource M.M. Harris 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 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Elmira College M.M. Harris https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/364e1c9b8c85174193adf2470746195e.jpg 4b2aae32419a29fbace95466f649d663 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 July-December 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 M.M. Harris, Dean, Elmira College, July 8, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.M. Harris, Dean, Elmira College, July 8, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Miss Harris: The contents of your letter of July 7, just received, have given me something of a shock, for I have had no indication whatever from the authorities of Elmira College up to the present time that any such situation existed as that you now report in connection with my ward. Miss Mary Sun. I visited Elmira during the past winter and talked with a number of the officers, including the President, with the express purpose of discovering just what progress Miss Sun was making. From all sides I received ensuring reports. Miss Sun herself was the only one who expressed misgiving as to how successfully she was making the college grade. The Chinese Minister at Washington wrote also to some personal friend of his on your faculty at a time when Miss Sun seemed a bit depressed, and he reported to me that he had received only reassuring replies. Under the above circumstances I am sure that you will agree that I have a right to be a bit surprised at the nature of your letter just received. Needless to say I shall do my best to impress upon Miss Sun the absolute necessity of getting down to hard work from now on, though I shall find it very difficult to explain why I have found it necessary to assume this attitude towards her just now when during the year, and as I supposed with the full approval of the college authorities. I was endeavoring to encourage her to commend her faithfulness, and to dissuade her from believing that college work was beyond her grasp. I trust that during the coming year you will advise me frankly and promptly if Miss Sun's work and attitude are not measuring up to your customary standards. 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 July 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Elmira College M.M. Harris https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/838b636432589bd2678ae35575e74b29.jpg da57590cc79bbe3f2d78588d7e8c463d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f4e8522cd69c0af12294ba0bea303e72.jpg 82c406e9ab829cb41caba975d869ed31 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 July-December 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 Mary Sun, Cornell University, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 8, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Cornell University, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 8, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary 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 July 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun