8 10 90 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3bd34d967804b91e08b4e65a93f30bc0.jpg 92d48cb23dab6e64bb82d9f3c9b82154 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 1930, 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, Vermont, August 26, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, August 26, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Your letter of August 11 reached me a few days ago while I was still at my camp at Connecticut Lake. I am in Andover for the day only and brought the letter here in order to dictate a reply. In the meantime, I have sent you as requested a check for two hundred dollars, though I did so with some reservations, as your expenses for recent weeks have mounted well above the limit which we had previously discussed and which I felt at the time was exceptionally generous. Evidently the car is proving more expensive than anticipated by you. That's just about what I expected myself, for I have had some experience with cars, and know how rapidly the unlisted items mount when once a car is in operation. All I can say is that you will have to watch this item with the greatest care, for if the general annual expense gets beyond proper limits, I shall have to ask you to turn in the car for cash and go without something that is more or less of a luxury, as we both agreed. Your father certainly would not be willing to have you continue such an extra expense, and I myself am willing only because of the summer school arrangement and where I feel you would save by doing your summer studying in a place like Middlebury. I have not had a chance to check up your expense account in full as yet, but will do so shortly and will know better then where we stand and what we ought to provide for. You will have to be mighty careful, however, if you plan a trip that is going to take in all of your fraternity brothers around New Hampshire and Maine, and unless you can save enough to offset the extra expense through being entertained by them, I am sure the trip ought not to be taken. Anyway, it seems clear that you should sell the car before you go down to New Haven, as I should not be willing to sanction the present arrangement when you are living in a big city. There is one item in your account which I do not understand, namely, "Mr. A.G. Hinman, postmaster, $28.00." Won't you please explain? Also please tell me why you had to add an expense of $34.00 for a rumble seat to the regular price of the car? 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 August 26, 1930 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/ccb080a172ce1ce44e3d1115230ac19e.jpg 46a08761ed7736f65c6b060b27a88272 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1d86e8323575ae97e4819f7d6cdfa929.jpg 6f44e595f06a8f4f562426159a5e8128 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/11437d3eef5743ca8a35323cd167a47a.jpg 0939c830512ac4e4772eefcda61571e1 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/75fc2d9816e880c3b7aa2c42e82a9b87.jpg 4a9b8ef31ecea3249f40e5bcf52a3237 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 1930, 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 Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 29, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 29, 1930 Relation A related resource My Dear Dr. Stearns, I received your letter of the 26th of this month. I need to explain some efore [sic] I can put forth some matters which I want to bring to your attention. As for the two items in my account, I shall explain them as follows. The $E28.00 which I paid to Mr. A. G. Hinman, postmaster, for was a C.O.D. package from New York, where I bought a suit from a so-called "fire-sale". The original price on that suit was fifty dollars. The real amount I paid Mr. Hinman was $28.00 in check and thirty-seven cents, which I paid in cash, for postage etc. The $54.00 for the rumble seat is thus. The price I paid for the car was 550.00 dollars, coming down from the sellers original price of four hundred. The reason he wanted four hundred was due to the fact that the car, at the time of the transaction, was run only 4700 miles, which is practically new. He did not have a rumble seat in the car, and he agreed to put one in for me for fifty dollars more. By putting in the rumble seat myself, I saved fifteen dollars. The rumble seat was not a standard equipment on the 1929 Fords, and I don't think it is on the 1930 model either. There is a difference of I think around forty dollars between the Fords with a rumble and one without. The garage in town valued the car at the time of the transaction, and they thought that I paid four hundred dollars, which they considered as cheap. The reason that he wanted to sell the car was that he had another one anyway, and he was rather short of money at the time. I hope that my explanations have been satisfactory. Now concerning your proposal of my selling the car. It seems a little bit too unadvisable at this time. I went down to the Garage this morning the instant I received your letter, and they definitely told me that I can not sell it this fall, and I will be lucky if I can sell it during the winter. I wanted three hundred dollars for it, which they consider as reasonable, but they thought, that I can’t even sell it for two hundred for the simple reason that money is scarce this year. They said that even the garage can not get rid of their second hand cars. Furthermore, my car is a roadster. In the fall, with the cold weather approaching, no one wants anything but a close car. Of course, I can sell it now, in face of the business depression and the impracticability of open cars in cold weather, but I must do so at too great a sacrifice. I will get no more than one hundred and fifty dollars. You must know that money is scarce this year with business on the decline everywhere. To sell anything, especially second-handed, one can not get the value that it is worth. Chances are that even if the money is more scarce next year, I will be able to get better money for the car than I can at this time, if I sell it at the right time. To sell an open car with the coming of colder weather, will be too inadvisable. Naturally the expenses on a car is higher during the summer than it is during the winter and colder weather. People drives [sic] more during the summer, thus the expense. During the colder weather, one, even I, will be a little skeptical in driving an open car. Therefore the expenses which I will incur for the car during the winter will be almost nil. Furthermore, down in New Haven, the means of transportation is so much better, that I will not have to use car to get anywhere, except for an occassional [sic] longer trip, which I will unlikely take during the winter months. Therefore I advise keeping the car till a better time to sell it. It is purely a business proposition, and one must wait till better terms. I have the supply of a car, but there is no demand for it. In order to creat [sic] demand at this time, I must make an awful sacrifice, which I do not like to make in face of the money invested, and a good investment at that. Even if it is advisable to make the sacrifice, I doubt whether I can sell it for the simple reason that people has [sic] no money during the winter especially this year. Since this is a business proposition, I have to look at the business side of it and apply what economies possible. I can see your point in asking me to sell the car, but isn’t it a little bit too inadvisable at this time? You said that you will not approve of my having a car in a big city, but I think I will not be too anxious to drive in a big city with all the traffic, therefore there will be no expenses for it, except for garage fees, which will be around five dollars per month. I do not mean to anger you by my arguments, nor am I trying to keep the car against your wishes, but it is really hard to sell a car during the period of business depression and trying at the same time to get fair value on it, especially an open car in the face of winter months approaching. Those are facts, and can not be overlooked. I will, however, try to sell it by approching [sic] whatever prospects I know. In the meantime, I shall be awaiting your reply. Now concerning Yale. I went down to New Haven and reserved a room for the year. I am paying by the week at the rate of five dollars and a half per week till October first, when I will pay six dollars per week ($6.00). I shall be paying six dollars till the cold weather goes away in the spring. The raise in room rent during the winter months goes for fuel. I shall make out a budget for each term and send it to you for sanction. I have a notion. I think it will be cheaper for me to study down there than by comparason [sic]. I know no one there, and I will not be going into this and that. Whatever expenses I will incur will be necessities. I can picture myself as just another Chinaman. I will have to be that down there whether I like it or not. If I am not that way, they will look upon me that way anyway. I found that out when I was down there last for one day. I expect to be in Middlebury till the fourteenth of September, after that I expect to be in New Haven. But you can always reach me here at the D.U. House. Originally I planned a trip, but I am abandoning it after I read your letter. I hope you will take this letter purely on its merits and hold no anger against me, for I mean none. Please let me hear from you again. I will do as you say, but please weigh my arguments. Very sincerely yours 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 August 29, 1930 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/acfad8e9e6897d6178a08b57b5551544.jpg 61741d3875657ccda9199e2ec2838dc2 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 1930, 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 Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, to Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, September 3, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, to Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, September 3, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Stearns, As I said in my last letter to you, I am herewith submitting to you a budget which I plan to follow at yale this year. The following are the figures which I estimated to be expenses. These figures, however are for one term only, namely till Christmas. Not knowing the conditions, I am rather skeptical about making estimates too far ahead. I am sure, however, there will be little difference among the three terms. Tuition 300.00 Registration 5.00 Room, 2 weeks in sept. 5.50 11.00 Room, Oct. 1--Dec. 18. 6.0 66.00 Board, sept 17-Dec. 18 150.00 Laundry 20.00 General expenses 200.00 752.00 Due to the lack of knowledge of the conditions, expenses, down there, I present the above only as the rough estimate of my expenses. The tuition of three hundred dollars, probably is payable in two payments at the beginning of each semester. That will make it one hundred and fifty dollars instead of three hundred, for the first term, and another hundred and fifty during the second term. The Board bill of 150.00 seems large at first, but at second glance, it is different. The first term (from fall till Christmas) covers thirteen weeks. The 150.00 dollar appropriation is only slightly more than eleven dollars per week. I was down there for three days, and I tried every resturant [sic] and diner cart, and it is just almost impossible to get a decent meal for less than seventy-five cents. The two hundred dollar general excense item seems strange. In that I included everything such as fees here and there, tickets to football games, gym fees, subscription to yale papers, magazines, etc. Every little odds and ends are included in this item. My meager knowledge of things down there, although I have been down there is against the budget. I trust you know more about New Haven than I do, and I home that you will use your judgement in giving me the money that I will have to have for the first term. The banks down there require a balance of one hundred dollars all the time, otherwise, a fine of five dollars is imposed or they won’t even keep the account. Give me what you will and what you consider enough to meet the expenses down there. I am leaving the matter to you to decide. I am going to be in Middlebury for about a week more, and then I think I will be going to New Haven to await the opening of school down there. The reason is because there is nothing to do here. If you will send me the money here to me in Middlebury, please do so within a week or send it so that I will receive it before next Wednesday. After, I may be in New Haven, or in New York, or some other place, I don’t know where. So it is best to send the money to me here, and when I go down to New Haven, I can deposit it in a bank down there. Please let me hear from you in the near future. sincerely yours 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 September 3, 1930 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/1e7507546b7c7f4dc8eba35c0ef483cf.jpg fac3ba2b1da0d118e90917ade5e56837 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 1930, 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, Vermont, September 15, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, September 15, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tommie: Your letter of September 3 reached me just as I was breaking up camp in the north country, and I have been too busy since my return to Andover to attend to the matters discussed in it until today. I admit that the budget you have submitted looks a bit large, but I admit also that in a wholly new environment one cannot estimate very closely in advance just what expenses will turn up. It seems to me probably best to send the larger part of the account you have specified, leaving out only the second installment on the tuition, which, as you have inferred, will not be due until later in the college year. All I can do is to ask you to exercise every reasonable care in incurring expenses, for we must find a way somehow to offset by economies the extra expense involved in the car and its operation. Otherwise I am sure your father would object, and very seriously, to my leniency in permitting you this luxury, for luxury it would certainly seem to him. I am sending this letter and check to Middlebury, since I do not yet know your New Haven address, and trusting that you will keep your good friends there informed of your whereabouts so that the letter may be duly forwarded to you wherever you are at this time. The moment you have a settled address in New Haven, please let me have it. With every best wish, 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 Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 15, 1930 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/894f0a70b59fc9521fea37e82139358a.jpg b240c95ce8b03f56dbeff64305ee58bd 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 1930, 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 Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 15, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 15, 1930 Relation A related resource D.U. House Middlebury, VT. Sept. 15, 1930 My dear Dr. Stearns, As you can see, I am still in Middle bury. Originally I would have gone down to either New Haven or some other place yester day or earlier, but due to the fact that I have not yet received the money I asked from you has about two weeks ago, I am still here. I hoped to get it last Saturday at the latest so I could start that right, but my plans were all changed since. I think I asked for $750.00 that includes tuition of $300.00 in one payment or two, I do not know. I have looked in the catalogue, but no satisfaction was forthcoming. I am staying here till the money comes, I hope it will be no later than Thursday morning. I sent the other letter to Pittsburg, N.H., and it probably had gone astray, in which case, I ask your forgiveness. In case you have send the money, please ignore this note. Sincerely Thomas Sun 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 September 15, 1930 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/e7afd439ef84ac964780356534ab98ff.jpg 4ad1de542b6645eab1a0c59f3fe04d4d 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 1930, 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, September 21, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, September 21, 1930 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns, As you may see I am now located in New Haven at the above adress [sic]. I am here awaiting the opening of Yale University, right at the present moments, I am very busy with unpacking and tryong [sic] to get settled so that I will have no worries during the year. After Middlebury, New Haven impresses rather queer. I am not so sure whether I will like the town. It is a typical college town along the same line as Middlebury but on a larger scale. But the attitude of the people here is strikingly different from that of Middlebury. I have lost count of just how many times I was yelled at in the streets as follows "Hello, there, you Chink". Knowing such remarks are not forthcoming from the better type of people, I did not pay much attention to them, but after a while, it becomes a little annoying, and so far I have been able to withstand such fun-making using as much diplomacy as possible,— but there is liable to be a breaking point to my sensitive nature. Everywhere I go, I was gazed at as a newcomer into the ranks of the exclusive. I am not at all at ease. I have been trying as much as I can to be nice to them, but that only makes me more conspicious. I am really at loss as to what to do. As a result, I have been in my room all the time when I am not out for meals, which is really a necessity when I must go out onto the streets. Physically, I am comfortably settled, but mentally, I am not. All the other Chinese students in town as what any American might picture them to be--sloppy, lazy, meekly and whatnot. Since I am a new comer into the ranks of them, I was not favorably received by the students here or by anybody. After a while it might prove a little discouraging. But, however, I am here to stay till something drastic happens. Other Chinese students endured it, and there is no reason why I can not. I haven’t met a single soul I know as yet, and chances are that I shall not if the attitude continues. Of course, in a larger college, one can not expect to know everyone. At the same time, I like to know someone who is worth knowing. I think I will join the Y.M.C.A. By that I hope to make some acquantances [sic] with the better elements of New Haven. I also received a bid from the Cosmopolitan Club of Yale University which is a club formed by the foreign students of Yale University, with which I do not know what to do. All my courses are concentrating in the department of Political Science. They promise to be hard, and I hope that I will be able to swing them all right. Sincerely yours 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 September 21, 1930 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 Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/743529eed59e37983a7f82e06cee64b1.jpg 3cea58da95c1644fa8c87dd456630eed 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 1930, 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, New Haven, Conn., September 24, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., September 24, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: I am immensely interested in the contents of your letter of recent date. Of course, after the experience at Middlebury, you are bound to find a new and especially larger institution, as you would surely find a now and larger place, wholly different and in many spots, terribly disappointing. You have a complete readjustment to make, and that takes time and patience if it is to be made right in the end. I know you will find it hard sledding for a while, but I am equally confident that in a big university like Yale where there are scores, indeed hundreds, of good level-headed, red-blooded Americans, you will in time make contacts and find now and delightful friends. So don’t get discouraged, but keep your head up and tackle the main job that is yours just now. Of course, after the friendly contacts and complete understanding at Middlebury, it must hurt to have ignorant street urchins and thugs make uncomplimentary remarks to yon on the street. That, however, is something that all of us encounter the world over, and will so long as human nature in every race and every land develops its different types of humanity. I can well recall some of the comments, which I of course couldn’t understand exactly, but the significance of which was all too apparent, that were passed to me the first few times I strolled about the city of Peking. As long as human nature is in a measure perverse, as it surely is, and until the time when we come to realize that skin or color or race make the real man no hotter or no worse than he actually is in character and soul, so long must we face these disagreeable factors in life. Anyway, I am sure you are going to win out. Go to it as you would tackle a job on the football field with the determination that you don’t propose to be licked and that you will prove before the game is over that you are just as good as if not a bit better than the other follow. Ever sincerely yours, AES/C 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 24, 1930 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/908041e52966fc914725b80de9d1670b.jpg 3ca53430e0ebdb77a677b0c812f666d5 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9389f3a550af8b9c75ed9262ce285d9e.jpg a685e91d700d4a6f82b7a86dbf0886df 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 1930, 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, September 29, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, September 29, 1930 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Stearns, Your good letter reached me Friday. I wholly appreciate your words of consolation, and I will attempt to live fully by your advice. I have already joined the New Haven Branch of Y.M.C.A. hoping in part to meet some people as well as some place where I may exercise. I also received letters from the Chinese Students Club of Yale asking me to join. All these activities seem to overwhelmed me, because they at first seemed to me as impossible in a larger place. As yet, I have had no classes. This afternoon, I start the academic year in earnest. All my work is concentrated in the field of Political Science, and two thirds of which is within the scope of Functional and Organizational Problems. I am also taking a course in Political theory. The Professors discourage me strongly in my proposal to try for the M.A. degree in one year. They informed me that it is almost next to impossibility. However, I will try to make it in one year and a half. The Yale requirement is "two years' of satisfactory work” regardless of how many courses are taken. If I go to some summer school during the summer, I may be able to make it, provided the professors will listen to my reason. That is if I don’t have to take German for my Doctor’s degree. I am beginning to feel rather at home in my own way—that is when I am alone. But when I go out for my meals or to the University, I am invariably a stranger usually beheld with interest or novelty, whereas a Chinese laundryman will pass by unnoticed. I find New Haven an extremely expensive place. All the stores have borne signs signifying loyalty to Yale students including banners, slogans, and some wen go as far as having a bullitin [sic] of activities to happen that day in Yale and the like. These stores literally abound in the town, and since they are all the stores, except women’s stores, they are all the ones of importance where the students must go for their supplies. The prices in them are exhorbant [sic]. I have met so far two Middlebury people and one old Andover student by the name of Tulley, a sophomore. I also saw Ted Avery and Johnny Sprigg, but they failed to recognized [sic] me. I went to New York yesterday to see Middlebury play Columbia and I met Jack Foster, and Johnny Phillips, both old Andover and Dartmouth football men. They were scouting Columbia. Of course during the game, I met a lot of old Middlebury students. I hope to settle down from now on till the end of the year with studies and will not probably notice my loneliness. I have not seen Mary or heard from her since last June. I went over and phoned her dormitory, and they informed me that she is in Providence. They said that she will be back shortly. Hoping that Andover will have another good year. Very sincerely yours, 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 September 29, 1930 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/7d425595bfff2c5c13938e3258211de0.jpg 51dcb7b83ee9e9bba4ca80ba899a7cb9 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7aeead0f18b4ece2eda6dd0aca6a6d06.jpg 82a5dad6521355f7d659000a90e440dd 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 1930, 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 form Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, October 20, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter form Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, October 20, 1930 Relation A related resource 350 Congress Ave. New Haven, Conn. Oct. 20, 1930 Dear Mr. Stearns, I suppose that you have been wondering why I haven't written you so long. I was at Butler then when I got back here-- I was put on night duty in isolation until today. I surely am glad that I can live like everyone else. I had a very interesting experience at Butler. In spite the black eyes and kicks that I got-- I enjoyed the work. This course made me realize why the mentally ill act as they do and the different situations that can cause the abnormal actions. I have developed more patience and sympathy with patients than I ever had before. I wish that I could have a longer course in it. I am sure that my country need psychiatry more than here. I had meet Dr. Ruggles and his lectures were very good and I enjoyed them ever so much. He certain is a marvellous person with the most unusual personality. Everyone who is at Butler thinks that he is just about perfect. He can handle the patients so well. Tom is here but I only have seen him once because I seldom have time off. He is feeling rather lonesome here -- doesn't like Yale. I believe Yale is too large for him.. I imagine he will get adjusted very soon. I am now working in pediatric isolation at present . We are very busy and have quite a few very sick children. Almost every day, we have one or two blood transfusions to keep the dying ones alive. We have some beautiful children on the wards. It make me feel badly to see some of them go. How have you been? I hope that everything is just fine with you. Oh, by the way, did I tell you that Arthur is now a father of a baby boy? My father and mother are very happy over it because he is the first grandson in the Sun family. Yours sincerely Mary 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 October 20, 1930 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/bf27d9c2b2f6719df0505990700a8d20.jpg 3932db354108cf175e754ecfc5e3586d 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 1930, 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, New Haven, Conn., October 21, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., October 21, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I have enjoyed immensely your letter, received this morning, and the story it tells of your work at Butler and your later work with the infant in your ward. It is a wonderful thing to be able to help those who are in trouble, whether that trouble be physical or mental, and I take immense satisfaction in the thought that you are going to be able to do just that among your own people in China in the years that still lie before you. So Arthur is a happy father! How the time flies, and how fast we all grow up! When you write him, give him my personal congratulations and good wishes, please. I hope you will be able to see something of Tom. Evidently he is a good bit homesick in New Haven, if I am to judge from the letters he has written me. and that is natural enough. He filled a big place in the life of the college at Middlebury, and the change is of the kind that is bound to bring something of a jolt. Tom's record at Middlebury was on the whole a fine one, much better, I think, in every way than I had dared hope it would be. But I was still hoping and believing, too, that after he gets adjusted at New Haven he will have a profitable and a happy experience there. When I am next down your way, which I hope will be soon, I shall certainly try to look you both up. In the meantime, success and the best of luck to you. 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 October 21, 1930 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