3 10 24 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/21ba6f19d9dbe5d13d319267b9f189d2.jpg 0590110a4dfd1114671f357a464cc7fc https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8fbacc20e3f26ab7b9f188cd0096fc56.jpg 1bfc76746e92d2e58ca04d08ea03cf01 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/978877c454b0eb0a95083ec0fbda350e.jpg 01dc32d65dc7f0057dfedfebbd7bb63d 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 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns February 18, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns February 18, 1930 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 February 18, 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 Relation A related resource 18th February 1930 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, Phillips Academy Andover, Mass, U.S.A My dear Dr. Stearns:- Your most kind letter of December 27th reached me about a fortnight ago just at a time when my daughter Dorothy was very critically ill at home with pneumonia complicated by pleurisy and a very bad carbencle on her back. I must confess that her condition was so serious that I had to allow everything to be in abeyance till now. She is somewhat better and said by her doctor to be out of danger. Your sound advice about Charlie’s future was, however, immediately followed as I have already asked him by telegraph to discontinue his further studies and also written to him that I would leave everything to his own judgment in case he does want to come home. Regarding the question of a higher degree I would like to say that in China undue importance has always been attached to it because one’s future career general depend upon it to some extend. In Charlie’s case I do not pretend that I am one of the exception but my sole object was to have him thoroughly educated and specialized in diplomacy, as we have not too many who are well qualified in such profession in our foreign service. The reason why I have never disclose this idea to you or Charlie was due to the fear that the exposure of same might offend the sensitive feeling of those who were but armatures in our diplomatic service. My dear Dr. Stearns, please allow me to state here that whatever you have written with such frankness and sincerity has touched me deeply and I fully appreciate your genuine friendlineSS to me and to my children, I was perhaps more or less influence in being too particular about children1s higher studies by the fact that qualification of some of the returned students are not to the expected standard which they should possess thus causing me to take more drastic view in the case of my children. Regarding Tom I think he is still so young that he can well afford to pursue further study and specialize himself in Government Administration. I learn from Charlie's home mail that Toia is going to Harvard after he graduates from Middlebury. From Tom's own letter I understand that he going to study his French all over again upon your good advice. He is feeling ever so happy for his being elected chairmanship of his Fraternity, editor of his college Chapter paper and he felt greatly honored. So far he has not talked about coming home nor have I mentioned this point to him because I well know once they are back home it turns problematic whether they will ever be so anxious to go abroad to finish their studies such have always been the tender influence of the mothers over their children. However, should you think there is no necessity for Tom to take further studies please be mn kind enough to tell me so, and then we may try to arrange some means( if possible ) to enable him to obtain some practical training for a year or two in one of your Government Offices. In such a case I do not know whether I can impose upon your kindness to approach your Government upon this delicate matter provided it is permissible for a foreigner to obtain such experience. Referring to the black wood carve piece which Tom sent, I must apologize for not having advised you in time. This carve piece was first entrusted to a friend of mine who was going to London via America But at the last moment he changed his plan so I had to get it packed and rush through the post office in order to catch the steamer that will reach the States before Christmas. Thus I forgot to write and tell you the said black wood carve piece was meant for the stand to support the piece of old jade which I have written you before, Dr. Sze has advised me in his recent letter that Madame Sze will bring the jade over to America to you in the near future. I would feel greatly obliged if you will send the broken pieces of the black wood carve piece to me at my expense as it is very easy to have a new one made here according to its measurements I beg to advise you that I have ordered a remittance of G. §3,000.00 ( three thousand ) for my children’s account from the London Office of the National City Bank of New York. I expect it will reach you some time in March. With best wishes from Yours very gratefully C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3f591725804547f7ba5238cd0d156ea2.jpg e2b768934f02dacfa837b48381cdc6b3 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/77550dff7e3d8ac4681d23db436922b2.jpg 3e9e6d056c5268d8e4383edb804f5b36 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 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin April 7, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin April 7, 1930 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 April 7, 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 Relation A related resource April 7, 1930 Mr. C.Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: Your letter of February 18 reached me just before my return from a recent and somewhat hurried trip to England. Since that time. I have been more than crowded with work here and my answer to you has in consequence been delayed. Please accept my apologies for tho delay. What you write me of the attitude in China usually assumed towards a higher degree is most interesting and confirms thet impression I had already formed on that subject. Under the circumstances, I can readily understand why you should wish Charlie to secure as much outward evidence as possible of hit attainments and progress in America. On the other hand, I am still of the opinion that some of the returned students, at least, have leaned too heavily on the degrees that they carried back home with them and have allowed the fact of their possession to curtail their own initiative and effort in lines of active and worth while service. Whether Charlies has higher degrees or not, I am sure that he will give a good account of himself and more than realize your high ambitions for him in his later life and work. I had several delightful little visits with him in London, and have heard from him once since my return to America. In my judgment, he will enjoy and gain increasingly from the life and work in London, even thought he found both a bit distasteful at the start. I have only recently had an interview with Tom who came down to talk over his problems with me. At present it is a bit difficult to know just what to advise him, but we are making inquiries of several of the leading universities, including Harvard, to discover if possible where the best courses in government administration, international law, etc. can be found. If this plan does not work out to our complete satisfaction, there is a chance, of course, that I might be able to get Tom a temporary position in one of our own government offices, though of course I cannot promise this, ae I am not sure just how far such procedure would be in conformity with the customary practices in offices of this kind. I shall be only too ready and glad, however, to investigate and discover what can be done. Frankly, I am a little worried about Tom lest his success and unusual popularity at Middlebury College leave him in a position where he will find it extremely difficult to readjust himself to conditions and life at home after his return. I have seen similar developments in the case of one or of my Chinese wards and in those cases have been led to feel that the stay in America had been prolonged a bit too long for their own individual good. Tom himself feels that the change is going to be a very severe one to meet and I am sure that he is right. This is in no sense a reflection on him or his spirit, but an inevitable situation which confronts a boy who becomes thoroughly imbued with American ideas and takes naturally to our free American ways, winning as he goes along the confidence and good will or his American school and college friends. Tom has done this to an unusual degree and hence the problem becomes more acute in his case. I cannot help wondering whether in view of this situation it might not be well for Tom to have a year in China in order to get back a little more into the spirit and atmosphere of his own people before he goes further with his work in America. I have not said a word to Tom about this myself, but since his last visit, I have been more than ever impressed with the nature of the problem which the boy is bound to face and which I can see is already causing him some inward uneasiness. I am just thinking out loud, as it were, to you, and am not prepared to recommend what course you should pursue, since that naturally is a matter for you and not for me to determine. The fact it I am not altogether clear myself as to what would perhaps be the wisest thing to do. Please don’t worry about the carved black wood which forms the base for the lovely piece of jade you sent me recently. The break in the wood is of such a character that I am sure it can be mended without revealing its impairment. Madame Sze kindly delivered the jade to my boy in New York, from whom I received it recently and brought it home. I can’t tell you how deeply I value it and how thoroughly I appreciate your generous thought in sending it to me. Mary writes me enthusiastically of her work at New Haven, and gives me a most interesting and amusing account of her experiences in practical nursing, something required as part of the regular course of all those who are at the Yale School of nursing. The remittance to which you refer of three thousand dollar has not as yet reached me, but doubtless will in due time. Both Mary and Tom have surpluses to their credit on their accounts, so that I am not worrying on this score. with warm personal regards, and sincere good wishes, believe me Very sincerely yours C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9ef65098867a9e3a84a7b6a7f555ef9d.jpg 2991b3ebdb7d12ee2b8ca86a0f71be6b https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/30edefb5788bd34ee0da9e8679f935ef.jpg 419ef8edac216cb84575e9282af76e0b https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7a1342bda9958dabfd03275338fbb51c.jpg 5a1e16d88e08eadf5ad0728ed0ad10d4 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5d86e4a27990c02f69b368e3626042be.jpg 2a3809b3d7c3b0e040d10f213aabaa58 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 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns May 27, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns May 27, 1930 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 May 27, 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 Relation A related resource Shanghai, 27th. May 1930 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Phillips Academy Andover, Mass. U.S.A My dear Dr. Stearns, Your most kind and interesting letter of April 7 and 21 reached me, and I most heartily thank you for going so very fully, and with so much sympathy, into the problems relating to the educating of my children. I have just come to Shanghai for a much needed rest and change after a very sad and trying time at home for many months back. After a long spell of illness, with one sickness upon the top of another, I lost my 3rd daughter. We had the very best attention for her including night and day nurses, but she wished me near her most of the time. The constant attention required of me when I was in poor health myself, and the fact that I was the only member of the family that knew there was no hope for my daughter's recovery, just wore me down, and I had no time, or even thought, for anything else. This is the reason I did not feel able to even try to meet Dean Goodrich. It was not Mary’s fault, for she did write me that the Dean was coming to China, but I was entirely taken up with my sick daughter to the exclusion of every other thing, indeed I quite forgot all about Mary’s letter. I am sure you will understand, and if you get a chance to explain to Dean Goodrich, please tender his my apologies, I very much regret that the special circumstances prevented me from making arrangements to meet him. And it would be a favor if nothing was said to Mary or Tommy. It is of course possible that the news of my daughter’s death will filter through to them, but my thought opportunity for him to do some hard work in preparation for his coming course at Yale. I have given due consideration to your very kind and thoughtful words about Tommy’s popularity, with the danger of his taking on so much of American ideas & ways so as to possibly hamper his future readjustment to the life and atmosphere in China. A father naturally appreciates very very much all the kind things you tell me of the large place Tommy has made for himself in Middlebury College, but he will soon be thinking of leaving all his kind friends there and meeting the new conditions among strangers at Yale. This will be a new angle in mixing with men and should work out for good. Now, as to your suggestion that I might think over the possibility of Tommy taking a year at home in China before pressing on with his further studies in America. From a practical point of view, I do not think it feasible, for the pull of family-ties, and probably his own disinclination to tackle his further studies after a year's break, would, I am sure, mean the end of his ever going back to America. And, after all, will his waiting for another year or so in America to undertake his specialized studies make much difference to the question of his readjustment to his life and work in China? Tommy is young enough to successfully face this question after his Yale course of special study. All things considered, I feel he should carry on from Middlebury to his Yale course and attain to proficiency in the work he is going to specialize in on his return home. I trust my viewpoint on this meets with your acceptance, for like you, I have tried to look at the problem all round, keeping in mind particularly Tommy’s future when he sets out to find his feet in China. I thank you for your statements of account for Mary & Tommy and covering the period from October 8, 1929 to April 21, 1930. I am very glad to hear that you think the necessary repairs can be made to the blackwood-stand. Please have this done at my expense, and I shall be glad to hear from you that the repairs have been done in entirely satisfactory manner. It is not easy for me to express my gratutude, as I would like, for these two letters of yours, so clear and asympathetic and yet well covering the whole ground. I always feel that I never succeed in expressing what my heart feels of very grateful thanks for your large personal interest in my children. With kindest regards and most cordial good wishes, I am, Yours very sincerely, C.Y.Sun C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cfdb9a605b5a9599fccaac16637c9730.jpg ff3517f6d0c1d3f4d5f57c9d19c627fb 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 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai June 26, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai June 26, 1930 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 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 Relation A related resource June 26, 1930 Mr. C. T. Sun Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee 13 Jinkee Road Shanghai, China My dear Mr. Sun: I have read with the greatest interest your frank and friendly letter of May 27, and thank you heartily for it, and also for the friendly way in which you have accented my perhaps unwarranted suggestions as to Tom and Charlie and their futures. First, let me express my heartiest sympathy with you in the loss of your daughter. I shall say nothing to the children, of course, though as you say the news may naturally filter through to them by way of other channels. I am sorry indeed that you have had to carry this added burden after the load you have carried for so long in behalf of others. The latest plan for Tom, after further talks with him, is that he shall put in the current summer in the special summer school in French held each year at Middlebury College. This is one of the best modern language schools of its kind in this country, and I feel that Tom will be far better off in this old environment where he is so well adjusted than he would be if he were wandering about, or especially located in New York. In the fall he will go to Yale for his post-graduate work, unless, of course, something develops in the meantime to alter the plan by offering a more attractive opportunity elsewhere. It is doubtful, of course, whether I can hope to get him a position in our State Department, but I am willing to inquire of Secretary Stimson, who is a personal friend, and who just possibly may be able to give us some worth while advice. Again my thanks for your very kind and explicit letter, and with warm personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns