1 10 66 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cb252eaacd2156f836a04548066c6970.jpg a1c38ef59b6716001afe98c023ec8af9 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/. Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Your letter of September 1 has just reached me and I am filing with your accounts, your statements of expenses to date. As soon as I return to Andover, which will be within the next day or two, I will send you another check and also forward a check to the college for the $350 that will be due on your tuition for this year. I like emmensely [sic] your suggestion of taking a nurses course at Yale. Frankly, both Miss Clemons and I have always approved of that desire of yours to study to be a nurse, and I shall only be to glad, therefore, to use what influence I can with your father to persuade him that this is not only one of the most honorable professions, but one for which you seem well adapted and in which you could render your country real service. The Yale school is one of the best, and a degree from it would be well worth while. With all best wishes, believe me. Always Sincerely yours, 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, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, September 6, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, September 6, 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 September 6, 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/2cd35dd520a3b0064ba360ec7d06840a.jpg 2508113307b76b0a2333cf8adfd87bb4 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, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Charles Sun, MIT Dorm, August 29, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Charles Sun, MIT Dorm, August 29, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: Your letter of August 24 has been read with very great interest. I should much prefer to discuss with you in person the proposition suggested, rather than attempt to reach a decision at this distance. I have decided, however, to fill out the application as requested and am returning it herewith, leaving you to complete the form and send it on to Norwich, if you so desire. I can't quite think of you as a military man, for it seems as if your natural inclinations and tastes were of a higher order. On the other hand, if there were a stable government in China, or if your military knowledge can aid in establishing one, I should favor the scheme most heartily. Military men of high ideals like Gen. Leonard Wood, for example, can do wonderfully constructive work in the world and of the very finest kind. The average military man, however, is content with much less important things, and often become a mere troublemaker. I am sure that you would be actuated by the highest motives in whatever profession you engaged, so that I am perfectly willing to endorse this plan of yours, if you really wish to carry it through. I should do so, however, on the understanding that your father would approve. On that point I am not qualified to speak, though probably you know how your father would feel. Anyway, I can see no harm in filing the application, for probably it could be canceled later if you desired. Even if you decide on some other profession, a year of military training at Norwich would be bound to prove of real value. Though, of course, it is possible that you might invest a year to better advantage if you were going into another line of work. I shall hope to find an opportunity to talk the plans over with you in person, in the not distant future. For since I have recently been elected a trustee of Amherst College, I shall probably have occasion to visit Amherst oftener than before. Trusting that the coming year of college will prove to be best of all to date. With kindest regards, believe me. Always. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Letter from Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Charles Sun, MIT Dorm, August 29, 1927 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 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 Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns 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/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/507f88d6c5a411c6d8071f4671cc554b.jpg 54d7354e49fe13ca6b3969704ede68b8 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, Elmira College, December 21, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, December 21, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Many thanks for your note telling me just how and where you are to pass the holidays. Needless to say I hope that you will be able to get some real enjoyment out of the vacation and a real rest also. A Merry, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you. Faithfully yours, ASS/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 December 21, 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/4a1e42712e8c1c870f99a84424c37d7f.jpg be5bb756358144b1a3033648283b679e 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 Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., December 9, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., December 9, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: Many thanks for your good letter of December 5. I am enclosing check herewith for $500.00 which will carry you, I hope, well into the spring term. This is the same amount I am allowing to Tom, and I shall be interested to see how expenses compare as between Middlebury and Amherst, to say nothing of the comparison between Charlie and Tom Sun. Miss Clemons’s address at present is: Miss Grace Clemons, c/o Morgan and Company, 14 Place Vendome, Paris, France. You can doubtless reach her there during the Christmas holidays, though she may possibly join Marjorie in England for a part of that time. If you are going to stay in Amherst for your holiday, I hope you will have some real fun out of the experience and enjoy a real rest, too. Needless to say you have my heartiest good wishes for a Merry Christmas and a most happy holiday. 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 December 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7ea9941d7ee7ec49f0280d1af0510a53.jpg 9066c71f9b877c297e99555084e9864e 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 Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, December 9, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, December 9, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Many thanks for your letter which I find on my desk on my return to Andover after several days’ absence. I am enclosing check herewith for $475.00, which with the $25.00 recently sent you should carry you well through into the spring term. I am sending Charlie exactly the same amount and shall be interested to see how you two fellows come out in the end. Do you plan to spend all of the holiday season at Middlebury? Charlie writes that he expects to stay in Amherst for his. Accept my heartiest good wishes, please, for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Ever 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 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f9ab97ec5102e11861156690fcb6d212.jpg 0c80932f92a52d53d24d97fd83bf8594 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, Elmira College, December 1, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, December 1, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: Thanks for your letter of November 27. I am enclosing check for $300.00 to enable you to replenish your bank account. If I were you, I should go frankly to your Dean and tell her in confidence that you do not believe you are benefited by rooming with your present chum. Put it, perhaps, on the ground that those of different nationalities find it difficult to be congenial and to make proper adjustments. I do not think you need to say anything that would involve your roommate unpleasantly, but I do think you ought to make the change if you feel that her ideals are wholly different from yours and her influence not helpful. I am perfectly sure that your father would not wish you for a minute to stay with a roommate who did not meet his ideals of what a girl ought to be. No, I have not heard further from your father in connection with the Nurses School proposition. The moment I do, however, you will hear from me in turn, and promptly. Nor have I heard from Arthur recently, though he promised to write me frequently after his return. I have not heard that Henry Yuan has been expelled from Hamilton. I hope it isn't true. Within a few weeks I am due at Hamilton College for a preaching engagement, and I can then find out the truth. What are the plans for the Christmas holidays? I do not quite understand from your letter. Do you mean that you are going to stay in Elmira, and, if so, just where? With every best wish, believe me, Always sincerely yours. ABS/G Enc. 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 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 Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5668a6530e512a7e14a683214219bbe4.jpg bf348cb2738556771f0d43a55cfdc2d3 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 Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., November 16, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., November 16, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: I have just received your letter of November 13 and am not surprised that you should have wondered at my absence from the Inauguration exercises at Amherst a short time ago. I had fully expected to be there and had counted on the opportunity that the trip would furnish me to have a nice little visit with you Unfortunately the appearance in our midst of infantile paralysis made it necessary for me to cancel all outside engagements at this time, including a meeting of the College Entrance Examination Board in New York and the Amherst Inauguration, and to stay right here on the job. You can be sure that only something of real importance would have kept me from taking part in the Amherst festivities, especially when I had just been initiated into membership on the Board of Trustees. What you write me of the flood and of the contests with Williams are most interesting. It would take a good deal of water to bring the old Connecticut up on top of Amherst Hill. Naturally I was interested to hear what happened up at Connecticut Lake where the river starts, and a letter received from Ike Brown only a few days ago tells met that the road into my camp and the one leading down from the barn to the little cabins where you boys were lodged, especially the latter, have been badly washed out. Fortunately the lake had been drawn down during the late summer and early fall, so that when the freshet came the dam didn't go out as it doubtless would have done if the Lake had been full of water at the time. I hope you will be able to pull your work up if it has suffered of late, so that you can continue the splendid record which you have made up there to date. Incidentally, and if you get the chance, look up some of the Andover boys who have entered Amherst this fall, for there are some extra good fellows in the lot, and I am sure that you will find them congenial. With all good wishes, believe me, Ever 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 November 16, 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 Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1c8a785ffb9e8f695d2f73cc4d46e82a.jpg 363ce074ecaf61e87500e4508205b1b3 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 Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, October 25, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, October 25, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Your letter came last week just as I was leaving town, and I did not have a chance to comply with your request and send you a check until my return Saturday night. I did send you then a check for $25.00 which I hope has reached you safely. Frankly, I sent the check with some misgivings, for I can’t for the life of me understand how you could have disposed of $500.00 in a single month, unless you have met most of your college expenses for a long way ahead. If this is not so, you will break all records before the year is over, and naturally I cannot view that prospect with anything but alarm. I felt so happy over your achievements last year that this wholly unexpected development comes as all the greater shock. I won’t comment on it farther, however, until I have received your detailed statement of expenditures which you have promised me. 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 25, 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 Tommie [Tom] Sun