1 10 75 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/acad19445e9e5e1e52e69053bf02171d.jpg a1b41dda8d96569b99befe1f71c7ce1d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1fd20474db52103790d10e80296312bd.jpg 35c0c05837d30cc92c2195cec8ed5c1c 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 30 Sun Siblings 1923-1926 Folder 1, 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 A.L. Merrell, MIT, to Dr. A.E. Stearns June 4, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from A.L. Merrell, MIT, to Dr. A.E. Stearns June 4, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource A.L. Merrel 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 4, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dr. A.E. Stearns, Dear Sir: I regret to write you that, in view of the unsatisfactory record of your ward, A.K. Sun, he is not recommended for the degree of Bachelor of Science. The Faculty will, on petition from him, inform him of the further requirements for his graduation. Secretary. June 7 1926 Mr. A. L. Merrill, Secretary Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass. My dear Mr. Merrill, I am sorry indeed to learn that Arthur Sun has again failed to meet the requirements of the Institute for his degree. I shall, of course, be glad to learn what will still be required of the boy to permit him to obtain this goal, which I happen to know his father very earnestly cherishes for him. Frankly, I have never quite been able to decide whether Sun’s failure to make a better record with you is due to lack of ability or lack of the earnest effort that should have characterized his work. Very sincerely yours A.L. Merrell Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d91f278a81ae67146d30fa71cd50295d.jpg 9e01c276669780d016773bd9d3b343d4 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/403a3e757a88a91b5800b1ade2211d9a.jpg 75a76cf91b16dc3273cfda8bf80f025c 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 30 Sun Siblings 1923-1926 Folder 1, 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 Annie B. Russell, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass. May 25, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Annie B. Russell, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass. May 25, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 25, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource May 25, 1926 Mrs. Annie B. Russell Whittier School Merrimac, Mass. My dear Mrs. Russell: Thank you heartily for sending me the information about Mary’s work at Abbot and with you. This is just the material that Elmira College desires, and I am forwardly it to the College this morning. Only yesterday I received a most gratifying letter from the President of Elmira, acknowledging the receipt of my formal application for Mary’s admission next fall and telling me that they were ready to take her in on my recommendation, even though she might fall to pass all the regular entrance tests. I am not sure that it is rise to mention this to Mary for the present, for my understanding with the College authorities is that Mary will continue her work during the summer so as to bring herself as near as possible by September to the standards regularly imposed on the girls who enter. Mary writes me that her work with you ends June 3, and I am a bit at a loss to know just what arrangements to make for her for the rest of June. My own house and time will be terribly crowded during those closing days of the school year here, and it will be difficulty to provide for Mary under these circumstances; and I am not at all anxious for her to be hanging around Andover with extra time on her hands and in such close and intimate contact with the influences emanating from Abbot and elsewhere which have already caused me so much unnecessary trouble. If it is not practicable for Mary to continue work with you beyond the date mentioned, I shall try to make arrangements for her to go at once to Elmira and start operations there with a member of the faculty with whom I hope to have her continue work during the summer. Very sincerely yours Annie B. Russell (Mrs. W.C.Russell) Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c39518a9779cfae11272c1e88b0fb7ad.jpg d6e1058cb8a831f7984d9fd3609855a2 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 30 Sun Siblings 1923-1926 Folder 1, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, MIT August 12, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, MIT August 12, 1926 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 12, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource August 12, 1926. Mr. Arthur Sun, Technology Dormitories Cambridge, Mass. Dear Arthur: I have your letter of August 10th and am enclosing checks as requested, one for Mr. Mirabelli and the other to you for advance allowance. Please send me the receipts promptly. You have really been dreadfully careless about bills and receipts, although I take extra pains to enclose addressed and stamped return envelopes whenever I send you a check. In spite of this, the receipts frequently do not come back until you have occasion later to write for money. This not only means extra trouble for me, but is distinctly unbusinesslike on your part. For your own sake, if you ever hope to be a success, do try to overcome this carelessness, and be careful and prompt in all matters relating to the handling of money. Tom has applied for admission to Middlebury College and is now tutoring at the Thorn Mountain Summer Camp at Jackson, New Hampshire. Mary is going to Elmira College, and has recently received notice that she is fully admitted. Tom troubles me, as usual. His final report in June with us was wretched, and, though he assured me that it did not represent the real work he had actually done, and that he would prove this on the college examinations, the college returns were equally bad. If he fails to get into Middlebury I am strongly disposed to give him a year in a strict Military School. Otherwise, I really think he ought to go back to China, for he appears to be drifting more and more until I wonder whether we can stop it. As to your job next fall. It seems to me that the best way to get at the thing is to interview some of your instructors there at Tech, who are constantly placing follows in positions such as you seek, and who can tell you far more than I can just how to go to work to find a position. Try this anyway, and then let me know what success you have. I shall be glad to help you in every way I can, but am naturally limited in my ability to do so. I am hoping to start for the lake the last of this week, and be there until school opens next month. If you have occasion to write, however, letters sent to Andover will be forwarded, and in any case, the receipts for the checks enclosed should be returned to the office here, and in the envelope I am sending with them. Ever sincerely yours. Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ae82a369f86f9f9cf0619951379deae4.jpg a10ce3727f2e22e59db67d633940afe6 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8de16bb3923bd8ac6dae4021364a3f14.jpg c770aa0888b0901af0d2e6f37fa30bd6 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 30 Sun Siblings 1923-1926 Folder 1, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, MIT June 5, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, MIT June 5, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 5, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource June 5, 1926 Mr. Arthur Sun '93 Technology Dormitory Cambridge, Mass. Dear Arthur: I am sorry that we have not been able to get together, as planned. four telephone message the other night came after I had gone to bed; so that it was not possible for me to talk things over with you. Mary left for the Sea Pines School at Brewster, Mass., last Thursday. Hiss Bickford, the principal, and her sister, who acts as assistant principal, arc exceptionally fine people and are anxious to do their best for Mary. When Mary found that there was to be a large group of girls there for the summer and that facilities for tennis, bathing, etc, were provided, she became, apparently, quite enthusiastic over the prospect. I had planned to have her there only during the period intervening between the close of her school year at Merrimac and the opening of the Cornell summer session. I can’t help feeling, though, that if Mary finds the surroundings down there congenial, it would be much letter for her to stay there throughout the summer rather than to go to Cornell. She can get at Sea Pines all of the tutoring she will need and, at the same time, enjoy with plenty of girls of her own age the wholesome and invigorating life with all that the seashore offers. I have written to Mr. Sze, explaining matters in full, and I am inclined to believe that he will fully approve of this plan; indeed he has said as much in the letter received from him this morning. I should like, of course, to have Mary present at your graduation, but I do not quite see how I could fairly keep her over for nearly a week for this event with not even the assurance that you were to get your degree. My impression is that the school authorities at Sea Pines would hesitate to encourage her to make the trip back to Boston so soon after starting her work with them, unless we all felt that the occasion was of sufficient significance to justify another exceptional measures. I feel sure that will concur in this opinion. Trusting most earnestly that you are going to be able to clean up all your work at Tech and secure the coveted degree which I know is going to mean so much to your farther as well as to you, believe me with best wishes Ever sincerely yours Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/28b48f8adb6793c6008b8f09f3bcca72.jpg 1a54afe37a6b3bfaf0525ea1ea084af7 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 30 Sun Siblings 1923-1926 Folder 1, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, MIT June 8, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, MIT June 8, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 8, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource June 8. 1926 Mr. Arthur Sun 93 Technology Dormitory Cambridge, Mass. My dear Arthur Your latter has just reached me, but I had already heard the bad news from the secretary of the Institute who send me a brief note yesterday. This news I passed on to Mary at Sea Pines in order that she might not plan to take in the festivities, as she had hoped and expected to do. This, of course, has proved a bitter disappointment for us all, and. I really can’t advice you by letter just what you ought to do. My impression, however, in that your father would wish you at almost any cost to fight on until the Technology degree is yours. If you can do this by summer work, go to it. It will be time to talk about a good vacation, if that is necessary, when the decree is actually in your possession. The secretary wrote me that he would advise me later just what steps would be required of you to make up your deficiencies and graduate. I wish you would get wish you would get this information from the authorities in writing and send it on to me; then we will get together and plan how best to meet the retirements, Further, we can get a job for you in the fall perhaps even better than we could earlier. This is about all I can say at present and with my limited knowledge of the actual conditions. Let me know just what the authorities are going to require of you and then I shall be able to advise you intelligently. Very sincerely yours. Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e35fa4b82c821452e246622948a57066.jpg 4c555b3d31044700bca9a65f0cb0c998 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 30 Sun Siblings 1923-1926 Folder 1, 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 Carlie Mallett, Elmira College June 3, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Carlie Mallett, Elmira College June 3, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 3, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource June 3, 1926 Miss Harlie Mallett Registrar, Elmira Co1lege Elmira, N. Y. My dear Miss Mallett: I am enclosing a check for $5.00 which I understand is the proper registration fee for my ward, Mary Sun, who hopes to enter Elmira College this coming fall. The application blanks which you sent me are being filled out and will be returned to you shortly. I am able to send herewith the one covering the recent work at Whittier School. That covering the Abbot Academy connection and the admission blank No. 1, to be filled out by the applicant herself, will be sent to you as soon as I can secure the information desired. Very sincerely yours. Carlie Mallett Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b2a7778d80fa6eb1113c8e0cc9c08fe3.jpg 54166984759449ea44ebbb321737841c 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 30 Sun Siblings 1923-1926 Folder 1, 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 Carlie Mallett, Elmira College June 4, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Carlie Mallett, Elmira College June 4, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 4, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource June 4, 1926 Miss Carlie Mallett Registrar, Elmira College Elmira, N.Y. My dear Miss Mallett: Thank you for advising me of Mary’s Sun’s status with reference to college admission. I feel sure that she will be able to get up the extra half point in Algebra, and I am also urging her to stress work in English during summer months. Very sincerely yours Carlie Mallett Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a4ae6f85a71bf814264ec09961ffaf95.jpg 5ee0aa964ecc9c96507273bf257b80a6 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 30 Sun Siblings 1923-1926 Folder 1, 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 K.H. Sun, Amherst, Mass. May 17, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles K.H. Sun, Amherst, Mass. May 17, 1926 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 May 17, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource May 17, 1926 Mr. Charles K. H. Sun 36 Woodside Street Amherst, Massachusetts Dear Charlie: Here is the signed room contract. I am letting yon fill in the other spaces for you know more about these details than I do. It was fine to get that brief glimpse of you the other day, but altogether too unsatisfying, for I would have loved to sit down and have a good old-fashioned talk rad visit with you. Better luck next time. Ever sincerely yours, Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1633649c10203e4726e979e8d487797b.jpg 8a68d5b3cd2f7f834ef97645e9263636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/83b8365ff28855238b9d7833e822822a.jpg ebc623024c67bc878430d9b105b92111 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 30 Sun Siblings 1923-1926 Folder 1, 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. June 2, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass. June 2, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 2, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource June 2, 1926 Mr. Charles Sun 35 Woodside Ave. Amherst. Mass. Dear Charlie: Thank you for your good letter received this morning. I am returning the list of studies, etc., as requested, and am prepared to endorse generally your selection of studies for the coming college year. If I were to raise any question, it would be in the matter of the Greek, for, while I am a keen believer in the value of Greek to the average student. I am not so sure that the investment of time and effort required of a foreigner, who must necessarily work with two foreign languages instead of one. is worth the struggle. Of course if you like the Greek and find it not too difficult, I am sure you will profit by it. I don't quite understand what you mean by your note "required of me". If you have to take it, that is another matter, but unless there are some very unusual conditions involved. I can't for the life of me understand why Amherst College should make Greek a requirement for a foreigner. Frankly, I am inclined to raise a row at the College Office if this is a fact. I also agree with you in your preference for Philosophy over the other two subjects mentioned under No. 3; but the value of a course in Philosophy depends more than anything else upon the character and point of flow of the instructor. With some instructors you would be far better off to leave the subject ahbieoly alone; with others, if they are men of high ideals and spiritual as well as intellectual power, Philosophy becomes perhaps the most stimulating subject in the whole list. It was a certainly that and more in my day in Amherst College under Professor Garman. The above are only suggestions, of course, add shall be ready to accept your final judgment, for I know that your judgment is regularly sound. If I can help you further, however, do not hesitate to let me know. I am still a bit upset about Mary’s surfer plans. Mr. Sze suggests that she go to Ithaca, N.Y., and live in a woman’s dormitory there while tutoring. At first this seemed to be the best thing in sight, but I must frankly admit that I do not quite like the idea of It, especially in view of the floating population and somewhat easy-going ways that are regularly associated with college summer schools. For the moment I have arranged for her to go to the Sea Pines School at Brewster, Mass, down on Cape Cod. This is an unusually nice place, and the women in charge are exceptionally high grade people. Very possibly, if things work out well for the rest of the month, it may best to have Mary stay right there for the summer. I can’t help feeling that it would be a much more stimulating place for her, physically. Intellectually, and spiritually. I have written Mr. Sze this morning and shall await further suggestions from him before settling things definitely. Arthur is coming up to see me to-morrow, and I shall talk with him along the lives you mentioned. If Mary were at Sea Pines, there would very probably be some good place down on the Cape where you and Arthur could stay and yet not be too far away. Do run out and see me when you can. Ever sincerely yours Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/74f7fad9c10aaedd945fcc4352bb0207.jpg ecf5226e3578c3938c85c98ad2a2f008 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 30 Sun Siblings 1923-1926 Folder 1, 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. June 3, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass. June 3, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 3, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource June 3, 1926 Mr. Charles Sun 35 Woodside Ave. . Amherst, Mass. Dear Charlie: For the past few years I have been carrying a small amount of insurance on your clothing and other possessions merely as a precautionary measure. The amount of insurance has been $500.00 and the annual premium $3.00. Since some of you have left the house and your goods are necessarily a bit scattered, it does not seem wise to ne to continue the policy longer. I am writing that you may know of my decision and may, therefore, take out for yourself, if you deem it wise, a similar policy with some local agency. Sincerely yours Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns