Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns February 22, 1928 (includes copy of letter from C.Y. Sun to Charlie Sun)
Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns February 22, 1928 (includes copy of letter from C.Y. Sun to Charlie Sun)
C.Y. Sun
Phillips Academy
February 22, 1928
44 Cambridge Road,
TIENTSIN, 22nd. February, 1928
My Dear Dr. Stearns,
I wish to thank you most cordially for the picture of yourself you most kindly sent me. I am specially glad to have this picture for now I can see before me a friend who has done so much in looking after my children and in guiding them in the right way of life.
Charlie wrote me last year that he wished to study military science but he later gave that up on account of it being too late for him to start in on the long years of training required. He then thought of a business training, but he also gave that up, and now he writes me expressing a desire to take up the study of military science and asking me to approve of this and an application to enter Norwich University. You will see from the enclosed copy-letter to Charlie that I am strongly opposed to his taking up military science, and unless he is altogether and entirely set in his desire I will not agree to it. My reasons are.
1. Charlie is too old to start such a long training. As for the Norwich University he speaks of Americans here in touch with scholastic things do not know the place at all. If it ever does come to a discussion of a suitable military training there is only one worth considering – West Point, but to enter this is a stiff work for it requires recommendation from the Chinese Government as well as an educational standard of about College graduate class, besides, I believe that now only one student of a foreign nation is admitted and even this is hard to get.
2. The military profession is a very unpopular one here, but even after years spent in training in America Charlie would come back here and require to spend, more years training before he could begin to be of any service while if he took up law or diplomatic work he would be ready as soon as he got back to China to give real service to his people and nation. The military life out here could throw a man with associates who certainly would not be of the same mind as Charlie and his high principles of life would not fit into military work in China. I feel sure he would be greatly disappointed and all his years of training would be wasted so far as his future career is concerned.
3. Charlie is of a quiet reticent nature with some literary bent. and I am sure this would better fit him for a career of law or diplomatic service and in this work there is a future before him in China with many many opportunities for service.
My greatest desire is that Charlie would give up all thought of a military career and go in for the study of law or diplomacy. I would only agree to his study of military science if he persists in the matter, but if he does this I confess I do not quite know how to act. I thought he had for ever given up any desire for a military career, indeed he wrote me that he had,but again he returns to this and wants to go into some unknown college. I hope we can persuade him not to think of military science. I have tried to express my strong objections and if you will be so kind as to assist me by talking things over with Charlie I will be very grateful to you. If Charlie agrees to go in for law or diplomatic work I do not know if Amherst provides a suitable course, but if it does not, would you be so kind as to recommend a good school for this purpose. He could take up law alone if that suits him, indeed I could agree to almost any special study & training provided it is not that of military science, although I do think that our land needs good lawyers & judges as well as men trained in the science of government.
Again thanking you for the kind thought in sending me your picture which I value highly, and hoping to have soon a favorable reply from you,
I remain,
Sincerely yours,
44 Cambridge Road,
Tientsin, 21st, February 1928
Dear Charlie,
In your letter of the 2nd January I see that after you have given up the idea and desire for business you now wish to take up the study of military science regardless of circumstances. All this is so far apart from your former thinking and opens up very real difficulties for you that I want you to reconsider the matter more fully. You know how Tommy gave up all thought of a military career because it was not at all suited to his Christian principles. and I am sure you want to take as firm a stand as Tommy on the question of high Christian principles. Whatever step you take now at your age will settle your future prospects for a life of service to our people and country. And I know you would not want to make a mistake for everything in the future for you depends on your wise thinking now. Think of the years of training you will have to take before you could qualify for a military degree that would be anything in China. You speak of a Norwich University but none of the Americans here who know the standard of college have ever heard of this Norwich University and in any case it would not be worth while thinking of any small college. The only place that is worth considering is West Point and they require a high scholastic standard before you can enter, besides West Point are hardly admitting any foreign students. I think it is one cadet from each foreign nation, and if there did happen to be a vacancy it would require a recommendation etc from the Chinese Government. Now even after the many years of hard training in America (which at your age makes a very difficult problem, for it may be too late) you would return to China and would then have to go in for more years of training in a junior job. You would also be with men who did not have your outlook on life or your high principles, and I am sure you would be very much disappointed at being in an unpopular work where you could not be of service to the people. You would find yourself out of sympathy with your colleagues with little or no opportunity for work of any high order. On the other hand if you took up a training for law or diplomacy you would be ready and able to take up a very useful service for the people and country as soon as you returned here. A soldier can be of service to the nation but without good law and government even the best soldier is not able to function or serve the people or country. The first need if for good men as lawyers and jusges also constructive work in the diplomatic and government service, and work of this kind ranks high in the estimation of all and you would find immediate opportunities for valuable service along these line as soon as you returned to China. Your study of political science would already be of some value to you in taking up the study of law or diplomatic service find your literary bent and your reticent nature would fit into such a study. You could of course take up law alone and if Amherst does not provide for such a course of study you could consult with Dr.Stearns. Dr. Stearns will advise as to & suitable college or university. After taking a degree in America I would be quite willing for you to go to say Oxford or Cambridge for a post graduate course with the object of taking a barristers degree in England.
I have written this very fully for it concerns your future career, I want you to know why I am against you taking up a military career and why the study of law or diplomacy would suit you so much better and enable you to be of real and immediate service to our people and land. I would, only agree to your study of military science if you now persist strongly in the desire, and as I said before it would be a waste of time think of entering a small college. West point is the only place where your training and degree would count and I have also stated the difficulties of age and entrance etc. you would meet with in trying to enter West Point.
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin March 17, 1928
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin March 17, 1928
Alfred E. Stearns
Phillips Academy
March 17, 1928
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March 17. 1928
Mr. C. Y. Sun
44 Cambridge Road
Tientsin, China
My dear Mr. Sun:
Many thanks for your good letter of "February 22 and for the accompanying copy of year letter to Charlie.
I am inclined to share your judgment as to the wisdom of a military course for Charlie. Just why the boy leans that way, I can't understand, for he is anything but a militarist in spirit. He is naturally a scholar, idealistic, and with definite literary gifts. You are absolutely sound in your contention that what China needs today more than well trained generals is men who are trained to fill responsible positions in your government and Courts. Charlie would seem to admirably fitted by nature for this sort of work, and I shall urge very strongly on him the admirability of making that kind of a future his goal.
Your judgment as to Norwich University, however, is not quite fair. West Point, of course, stands out preeminently as the best military college in the United States. Outside of West Point there are three or four institutions to which the Government extends aid and over which it exercises a certain amount of supervision because of the high caliber of the work done. Boys graduating from these institutions are granted by the Army definite credits, and many of them take high positions in the Amy and (government service in later life. In this limited group Norwich stands very high although it is a comparatively small institution and not often in the public eye. For a boy unable to gain admission to West Point I know of no institution that could probably give him a better military and all-round training than Norwich.
Mary still plods along without much success in her studies and with an evident lack of enthusiastic interest in her work. Every little while I get a distinctly depressed letter from her which prompts me to send her cheering and encouraging words, for she evidently needs to be strengthened in this way in her endeavor. Personally, I can’t help regretting very deeply that it has not seemed wise to you to let Mary take a course at the Nurses Training School at Yale, for example, a plan which has long appealed deeply to her and in which she would seem to have a genuine interest. Evidently, too. She has some natural gifts for this sort of work which, as I intimated in an earlier letter, is coming more and more in this country to be regarded as a high grade profession for women. The fact that Yale University has recently added the course to its regular graduate courses is indicative of the trend of sentiment. Perhaps I am wrong, but I can’t help feeling that Mary’s collage career, beyond the final attainment of a college degree, if she succeeds in reaching that goal, is not likely to prove of any special value to her in her later life. If she were a natural scholar and had been able to hold a higher rank in her studies. I hold a different opinion.
I hear little from Tom directly during the college year, but such reports as I get from time to time indicate that he has been giving a good account of himself at Middlebury College.
Please remember me most warmly to Arthur who, I trust, is measuring up to your hopes and expectations for him, and believe me with kindest personal regard
Very sincerely yours,
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Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns March 27, 1928
Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns March 27, 1928
C.Y. Sun
Phillips Academy
March 27, 1928
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44 Cambridge Road,
Tientsin, 27th.March,1928.
My dear Dr.Stearns,
I am writing this from Shanghai where I have been for the past three months. In a letter just received from Charlie he mentions that he had seen you and that you had spoken of having written me with the suggestion that Mary take up nursing. I have never received this letter from you or I would at once have written in regard to your kind suggestion. It has along been my desire that my children should return home with a College degree. If Mary does not remain in Elmira there seems to be no alternative but to take up nursing. I wrote her last year and mentioned domestic science, but I have not had a reply I also wrote again recently. Do you think desiging work would be a useful thing to take up?
If Mary returns home without a college degree she will find it rather hard when she moves around among the returned students from America. However, I leave everything to your kind decision and I am very much indebted, to you for all the trouble you are taking. I am very sorry that your letter to me has gone astray somewhere and trust that you have not been put to inconvenience in this matter.
With my thanks and best wishes, I am,
Very sincerely yours,
C.Y.Sun
P.S. I have ordered a remittance or G. $4,000.00 through the National City Bank of New York from their Branch office in Tientsin which I hope has reached you in due course.
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin April 24, 1928
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin April 24, 1928
Alfred E. Stearns
Phillips Academy
April 24, 1928
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April 24, 1928
C. Y. Sun
44 Cambridge Road
Tientsin, China
My dear Mr. Sun:
I have your letter of March 27. for which please accept my thanks.
The remittance of $4,000.00, to which you refer, was duly received from the national City Bank of New York. As the check came direct from the Bank without any other comment than that it was being forwarded at your request, I acknowledged its receipt at the time, February 4, direct to the Bank. Evidently I should have mentioned this in my next letter to you, as well, though I assumed that evidence of the fact that the check had been duly delivered to me would come to you through the local branch office in Tientsin. The sum was divided, as usual, between the accounts of the three children, one-third to each.
As to Mary’s further work, I am still troubled, but I shall not press the matter further until you have received and had a chance to consider carefully the suggestion offered by the Dean of Elmira College and which I forwarded to you in a recent letter under date of April 17. In at least two of my earlier letters I had expressed my interest in the nursing plan for Mary but had gathered that you would not be satisfied to have Mary take such a course. Dean Harris’s suggestion is apparently a voluntary one on her part, since I did not even know that Elmira College provided such an arrangement as she outlines. May I give herewith one paragraph which appears in a letter which I wrote you on March 17, last, and which will indicate definitely that I have had this matter in mind:
Mary still plods along without much success in her studies and with an evident lack of enthusiastic interest in her work. Very little while I get distinctly depressed letter from her which prompts me to send her cheering and encouraging words, for she evidently needs to be strengthened in this way in her endeavor. Personally, I can't help regretting very deeply that it has not seemed wise to you to let Mary take a course at the Nurses Training School at Yale for example, a plan which has long Appealed deeply to her and in which she would seem to have a genuine interest. Evidently, too, she has some natural gifts for this sort of work, which, as I intimated in an earlier letters, is coming more and more in this country to be regarded as a high grade profession for women. The fact that Yale University has recently added the course to its regular graduate courses is indicative of the trend of sentiment. Perhaps I am wrong, but I can’t help feeling that Mary’s college degree, if she succeeds in reaching that goal, is not likely to prove of any special value to her in her later life. If she were a natural scholar and had been able to hold a higher rank in her studies, I might hold a different opinion.
Of course I understand that you will be keenly disappointed if Mary returns to China without a regular college degree, even though I am inclined to think that many of the Chinese who are studying in this country are disposed to overemphasize the value of a college degree by itself alone. After all it should be what the degree stands for rather than the degree itself that counts. In Mary’s case it begins to seem as if the regular college degree was out of her reach, though it is difficult for me believe that she has not the actual ability to secure one. The Dean’s latest intimation that Mary might have to give up her college course at Elmira unless some readjustment in her course of study were made natural stirred my interest. I wrote at once to Mary begging her to bend every effort to avoid such a catastrophe, but I am not sure that she can do this now except possibly along some such line as Dean Harris suggests in the letter which I have sent you, and I know from recent letters that Mary has written me that she herself is thoroughly discouraged. I am urging her again to keep up her courage and do her best with the present tasks assigned her, at least until we hear further from you.
Charlie and Tom both seem to be doing very well in their respective colleges. The records which come to me from time to time, and which I have forwarded to you, indicate eminently satisfactory progress. I do hope that I may be able later to send you better reports of Mary’s standing and progress as well.
With kindest personal regards,
Believe me,
Very sincerely yours,
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Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns April 21, 1928
Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns April 21, 1928
C.Y. Sun
Phillips Academy
April 21, 1928
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My dear Dr.Stearns
I thank you for your kind letter of the 17th, March which I have just received. I wrote you on the 27th.March and in that letter I think I spoke of what I have in mind about Mary and that I would leave it to your kind decision. From what you say about Mary being depressed etc. makes we wonder if her nervous state will be able to stand the strain of nursing work particularly in operations and dressing of wounds.
If you couId try and influence Charlie away from his desire for a military career I would be very glad indeed. As to what you say about Norwich University I am glad to know it. What I wrote you came from the best American scholastic people here and it looks as if they need to have their records brought up to date. I am glad you share my views and judgment about Charlie and I hope he will be ready to give up the idea of a military career.
It is very nice to know that Tommy is doing good work at Middlebury. As to Arthur I told you in my last letter about his taking up a position in Shanghai and being happy in his new work. He desires to be most kindly remembered to you.
You do not mention it in your letter but I take it that the remittance which you should have received in January reached you safely.
With cordial good wishes,
I remain,
Very sincerely yours,
C.Y.Sun
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 21, 1928
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 21, 1928
Alfred E. Stearns
Phillips Academy
May 21, 1928
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May 21,1928
Mr. C.Y.Sun
44 Cambridge
Tientsin, China
Dear Mr. Sun:
Thank you for your letter of April 21. I shall give a good deal of thought to Mary’s problem before allowing her to make any radical changes in her present plans. In the meantime I shall, of course, take into most careful consideration all of the suggestions which you have so wisely offered.
I do not think that you need to worry about Charlie seeking a military career, for I am sure that at heart the boy has no real talent or interest in that particular line. He ought not to have, in any case, unless he should find the profession a medium for doing so something really worth while economically, morally, and politically for his country, and the the history of the nations of the world reveals only too clearly the fact such rare leaders are few and far between.
As I wrote in my letter to you of April 24, the remittance of $4,000, to which you refer, was duly received from the national City Bank of New York. The check came direct from the Bank without any other comment than that it was being forwarded at your request and so I acknowledged Its receipt at the time, February 4, 1928, direct to the Bank. The amount in question was deposited at once and to the credit of Charles, Thomas, and Mary which I assumed to have been your wish.
With personal regards, believe me always
Very sincerely yours,
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Letter from William E. Souter, Chinese-Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns April 26, 1928
Letter from William E. Souter, Chinese-Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns April 26, 1928
William E. Souter
Phillips Academy
April 26, 1928
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Shanghai, 26th April, 1928
Dear Dr. Stearns,
I sent you a copy of the "World's Health" with an article in it mentioning Mr. C.Y. Sun. I thought you might be interested. It is the first publicity he has ever had, and even the sparing mention I made did not please him for he certainly practices not letting his left hand know what his right hand does.
Mr. Sun, as I told you when in Andover, was a wealthy man but lost most of his money and has just enough to get along with: and what he has he is not sparing in putting all he can into charitable work. In addition he does not spare himself. He has been with me here for 4 months, away from home, and working voluntarily late and early on a relief-campaign in which his high organizing ability and unique personality counts for more than I can tell. He certainly is one of the most self-sacrificing man I have ever met. Please don’t mention that I have written you, for he much prefers to work quietly.
Arthur is here in what looks to me like a real job. There is not much money in it but it is of real service to the struggling Nationalist Government. He likes his work and gets plenty of it. Arthur went to his home in Tientsin and a job was to be made for him by friends of his father (without his father’s knowledge) but the lad turned it down and, on his own, secured this position in Shanghai. My wife and I have him out to our home and will try to help him in his friendships here.
Mr. Sun often tells me of how grateful he is to you for all your trouble and care with his children. You have the satisfaction of knowing that you are helping a man who is spending himself in service of the highest order in China. I often recall with my wife the happy day we spent with you in Andover and we trust you are having continued success in your work which I know from many sources ranks high on every count.
Yours Sincerely
William E. Souter
We don't ever see Mr Sun's name on our heading paper holding any office although he is probably the most prominent man on the relief committee.
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to William E. Souter, Shanghai June 12, 1928
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to William E. Souter, Shanghai June 12, 1928
Alfred E. Stearns
Phillips Academy
June 12, 1928
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Mr. William E. Souter
3 Hankow Road
Shanghai, China
My dear Mr. Souter:
Thank you for your good letter of April 26 and for your thoughtfulness in sending me a copy of the “World’s Health.” The latter I have not yet received, but I am sure I shall enjoy reading it when it comes. and especially the reference to Mr. Sun.
From all I have heard of Mr. Sun, not only from you but from others, and from the wonderful letters he has written me from time to time, I can't believe that your estimate of his character is a bit overdrawn. It is my hope that some day I may have the pleasure of meeting him and more intimately acquainted.
I am especially pleased to hear that Arthur is doing something that appears to you to be a "real job". Frankly, I have had some misgivings as to the value a good many of these Chinese boys derive from their education and stay in America, and it is mighty reassuring to that some, at least, are buckling down and really going to work on their return to their home land.
Both Charlie and Tom seem to be doing very well at Amherst and Middlebury Colleges, respectively, the latter much better than I had anticipated. Mary, on the other hand, has been having a hard struggle at Almira College and has been dissatisfied and unhappy there from the start. She has begged me for some time to persuade her father to let her take a regular nurse training course and give up the ordinary college course in which she finds little interest and on which she makes very slow progress. In connection with its Medical School ,Yale University now has a regular course for the training of nurses, and since I think Mary has unquestionably talents in that line, I have finally secured Mr. Sun’s consent to such an arrangement, though evidently the consent was given very reluctantly. I may be wrong, but it does seem too bad if Mary really wishes to train for some useful service in the world that she should not have this opportunity, and I can’t quite see what real advantage to her a mere college degree would be, though I realize that our Chinese friends rate it pretty high and generally without, regard to what it actually signifies. Anyway, at the moment Mary and I are negotiating with the Yale authorities to see whether the transfer can satisfactorily be made. It has been my thought that Mary might fit herself to fill a position later of superintendent of a hospital or something of that kind, a position of real importance from an American viewpoint, though perhaps not quite that through Chinese eyes.
Again thanking you most warmly for your friendly letter and trusting that you and your good wife are weathering all the political and other storms that seem to be beating all over China in these days, believe me with kindest personal regards
Very sincerely yours,
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Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns May 23, 1928 (includes copy of C.Y. Sun letter to Charlie Sun)
Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns May 23, 1928 (includes copy of C.Y. Sun letter to Charlie Sun)
C.Y. Sun
Phillips Academy
May 23, 1928
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23rd May 1928
Dr.Alfred E. Stearns
Phillips Academy, Andover
Massachusetts, U.S.A.
My dear Dr.Stearns;
Permit me to express my deep indebtedness to you kind letters dated the 17th and 24th April which have come to hand. And I appreciate ever so much the magnanimous effort you have made on behalf of Mary. Should it be convenient to you please also convey my appreciation of the kindness shown by Dean Harris. Having read your letters carefully I cannot but note with regret that Mary should have given you so much trouble.
Since Mary is naturally inclined to nursing and you and Dean Harris are of the same opinion, it seems best that Mary should change the subjects of her studies to Nursing which would arouse her interest in her college work. Of late, western medical science has made wonderful progress end I am fully aware of its usefulness. So please kindly make due arrangements with the Elmira College authorities for Mary. I wish also to express here that I am very grateful to your kind effort in averting a catastroph in Mary’s student career.
With reference to Charlie, I have just written him a letter and a copy is enclosed herewith for your perusal. Words fail me to express my appreciation of your effective influence upon the boy to have caused him to give up the idea of studying military science. If your further effort can induce him to take up law I would feel greatly obliged, because, I am convinced that a law course is not only good for our country and for Charlie himself but it also suits his natural qualifications.
I have much pleasure to inform you that Arthur is getting along very well in his new work in Shanghai. He is working with interest and enthusiasm. The recognition of his merit by his superior was indicated by a recent small increase to his salary. He is at present living in Bickerton Hotel. While Quincy is shown special interest in teaching and living with his brother- in-law in the same city. However, they expect to live together again in some apartment as they did when they were in Andover.
With the best of wishes
Yours very sincerely,
C.Y.Sun
20th May
My dear Charlie;
I am pleased to receive your letter dated the 23rd March and find it written in such an improved manner. The result of your conscientious work has already given you a good foundation in English, and it gives me pleasure to note the same. With reference to the choice of your professional study, I still believe that a course in law would be very beneficial to you. After you have finished it you may continue and take a course in diplomacy to finish up, so that, when you return, if you do not care to entre into a legal profession, you may still be qualified to realize your ambition of a diplomatic career. But with your reticent and observant nature and a keen sense of conception, I am sure you will have a brilliant career when you have finished a course in law.
AS your professor in political science has told you that diplomacy is related to law. His statement is only too true because, without exception, all the most important documents of International Treaties are drafted by qualified lawyers. Not only that, but most of the eminent diplomates of the world are also very good lawyers. Perhaps, it was due to the unsatisfactory practice of law in China that made you averse to study it. If you can bend yourself to it, your action will show all the more the strength of your will. A good knowledge of law will enable you to protect not only the interests of individuals but also the general public as well, and those of our nation which have been so much jeopardized; it will also enable you to uphold true justice for China.
Probably you have read in the papers what an estimable reputation Dr.Wang Chung-Hui enjoys. He has nothing that surpasses others nor any unusual talent, except his profound knowledge of law. How proud shall I be when you have prepared yourself to aspire a reputation like his and be serviceable to China.
When this letter reaches you I hope that you would have altered your mind as to accept my advice and that of Dr. Stearns which are based on experience and given with the best intentions.
Mother and every body at home are well. I am sending a copy of this letter to Dr. Stearns so that he may form his opinion as to which college will be best suited to you to take up a good law course.
Affectionately yours
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin June 26, 1928
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin June 26, 1928
Alfred E. Stearns
Phillips Academy
June 26, 1928
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June 26, 1928
Mr. C.Y.Sun
44 Cambridge Road
Tientsin, China
Dear Mr. Sun:
Many thanks for your most interesting letter of May 23.
You will be interested to know that Mary is already at work arranging for a transfer from Elmira College to the Yale University School of Nursing. I have just written her urging her to see that every detailed requirement of the Nursing School is met to the full and that prompt information be sent them whenever it is requested. I most sincerely feel that this new work is going to change Mary’s attitude towards her work in this country and towards life in general and that it will make possible for her a life of that high and unselfish service to mankind for which your own friends so deeply revere you and which I am sure you most wish to see perpetuated in your own children.
I think that we have definitely turned Charlie from any further and foolish thoughts about military training. After all that has been going on in China of late, he must realize, for he was a very sensible head, that the last thing in the world that China needs just now is a military leader. With a legal background, Charlie would be admirably adapted to statesmanship of a high order, for a combination of legal training and Charlie’s high moral standards would prove a tremendous asset in these days of China’s unrest.
Tom’s final term report indicates even a little better work this pattern than before, and with this I am greatly pleased.
Please remember me most warmly to Arthur and Quincey, and believe me with kindest personal regards always
Sincerely yours,
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