15 10 146 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c0ef211f7674424e263a34352d0fb711.jpg 81ca0e019e78c4129b27bc9434ba0d76 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 1929, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury College December 12, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury College December 12, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 12, 1929 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 Dear Tom: I have your note of December 11. School closes on Thursday, the 19th, and it regularly takes me the rest of the week to clear up my term letters; so that I think that you can pretty safely count on finding me there on Saturday morning, the 21st. I am mighty glad that you and Mary are going to get together during the holidays. Faithfully yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1154cf3a0c6732e153e9b3039c00f338.jpg 68e8a6e1ffaabd990c3ebcd8b3643ebf https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ab68c8e5e93659e90767733cb3dd6a4d.jpg 269b057e0be8563b1ced33429ba1a0f9 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 1929, 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, London December 16, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, London December 16, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 16, 1929 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 Dear Charlie: Your good letter of December 2 has duly reached me and I am hoping that long before it arrived my earlier letter enclosing a draft for thirty-five hundred dollars has reached you. As I explained in that note, this amount represents within a few dollars the total surplus standing to your account and in my hands, and was forwarded to you at your father's request. From now on I take it that it will not be necessary for you to report your expenditures to me, as your father seems to share my own feelings that you are amply able now to manage your own affairs. I hope, though, that this does not mean that my contacts with you are going to be any less intimate. In that case I shall be the real loser. Of course you will find things very different there from what you have known them in America. On the other hand, there should be much of interest to you and contacts with new people and the necessity of adopting new ways are broadening influences in themselves. I am sorry, though, that you do not find more congenial companions among your Chinese colleagues there, for it would make it much easier for you to break into the new life if you had some good friends among your own countrymen. Miss Clemons wrote me some time ago that she had received a letter from you and was hoping very much to look you up when she was next in England. She has been planning to join Marjorie there around Christmas time so that no doubt you will hear from her soon if you have not heard already. I was out in Amherst last Sunday for my annual engagement at the Agricultural College in the morning and at Amherst College in the late afternoon. The old Andover boys, or at least a good number of them, came up after the service and we had a nice little visit together until the organ recital put it to an end. Mr. Allis's son is here and singing in our choir so that Amherst contacts are pretty good this year. In about an hour I am leaving for New York to attend a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Amherst trustees, so you see altogether Amherst has held quite a place in my thought and schedule for the past few days. But I did miss seeing you up in the old town last week, and I shall continue to do so as I return there from time to time. Do keep me posted on all your activities. This is the closing week of the fall term and hence an extra busy one, so I won't attempt to lengthen this letter. It carries with it, however, the old time and friendliest good will and every best wish for a Merry Christmas and a truly happy and worth while New Year. Every sincerely yours, Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/55bc0cdb5f6f21c15a8c96d4e52ad698.jpg 903a5795ac40746f551251a10590f35e https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d796a935e3316239e5a1f283934f8154.jpg 1e5e46a7016ecc1a2ea2dfa119cd4832 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d6d96f2ec97bbadc96c5eb34568b5760.jpg cd7a1064a97381c8a4e7e972688fa6e6 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 1929, 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 Charlie Sun, London, to Alfred E. Stearns December 12, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Charlie Sun, London, to Alfred E. Stearns December 12, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charlie 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 December 12, 1929 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 Dear Dr. Stearns, I have been here for over two weeks but I have not received a single answering letter from my friends in the States. As I told you, Sir, I feel awfully lonely in London. Their weather, their rooms, and their food all disagree with me. I never realized how good America was until I left it. Miss Clemons was so good to give me a reply last week; it was certainly cheering to hear from a friend. She is now still on the Continent but she expects to come to London this Christmas, when I hope to have the pleasure of seeing her. My job is very pleasant to me. if only my father would give up the idea of having me get another degree, I would be perfectly happy. At present I feel blue enough without studying. But if I have to study and work all day and then worry about books in the evening, I shall go mad in a week. Dr. Sze frankly told me himself that father’s desire to have me get another degree is purely vanity. Mr. M.T. Liang’s sons all went back to China with dozens of degrees attached to their names; so father wants his sons to return home with equal honor. The Minister added further that I had better study for a certificate in Diplomacy or something (it didn’t matter much what) just to please my father. I locked up the other day the catalogue for the London School of Economics, and found that there are three things I can do: (1) To study three years for an LLB (2) two years for a certificate in Diplomacy (3) one year for the same. But in any of these, I have to go to classes spreaded out during various parts of the day. So even if I work only part time in the Legation, I shall have to go there only in the morning one day and only in the afternoon another day. I really don’t see how I can work or study in that manner. If my father insists upon my taking a postgraduate degree, I would rather give up my present job and return to the States to finish what I have begun in Columbia. I simply cannot study and work both in London. My father can't see that all this business is not helping but ruining me. He first promised me to let me go home this June, then he made me study, and now he wants me to study and work as well. He is doing all this for my good so I can't say anything to him. But I believe, Sir, that you understand better. That is why I am telling it all to you. If you can do anything to help me, I shall be ever so grateful. I think I have complained too much after you and my father have done so much for me these many years. But I really can’t bear the situation any longer. As for myself, my health is good but my spirits are low. I am trying very hard to cheer myself up by going out to supper with my new friends every day. But it's no use. As soon as I get home in my room, I feel blue again. May be it is the weather. But whatever it is, it is certainly getting me. Minister Sze is very kind to me. He is no doubt a wonderful man to work under. My job is the pleasantest part of my dreary life in London. With best regards and wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Ever faithfully yours, Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b16d05c10ba6dfc1fe61d7f70f0c4883.jpg 9e701d1a5ab11ecf90b4bf291cc36d0e https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/afa98d5c7b45ae8c38f28fe41549d765.jpg d1bbe04ab09dcb15e58a0378cda6fb2f 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 1929, 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, London December 26, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, London December 26, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 26, 1929 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 December 26, 1929 Dear Charlie: I have read with a good deal of interest and some amusement and lots of sympathy your good letter of December 12. It is mighty nice of you to keep me so thoroughly posted as to your new surroundings and prospects and feelings. Don't get over-pessimistic, however, at the start. As you become adjusted to the new surroundings, the colder houses, and the English diet, to say nothing of the weather. I really believe that the outlook will brighten up. Every one who goes to England for the first time is pretty sure to have an experience and reactions similar to yours. Miss Clemons I know will be delighted to look you up if she goes to London. Further, I am sure that Marjorie would be more than pleased to have a chance to see you, and as she occasionally goes to London, I imagine that you ought to be able to get together some time. Tom was here two or three days ago and had lunch with me. He is about as distressed over his immediate future as you are over yours, for he feels that his father's wish to have him study for a degree is not going to get him very far, and he is further convinced that it is going to be terribly difficult for him to go back to China and swing into the old ways. Tom seems to have done remarkably well at Middlebury and has earned the high regard of students, faculty, and townspeople alike. His development has been a source of real satisfaction to me, for as you know, it took him a good while to get really started. I am delighted to know that Dr. Sze shares my own feelings about your father's desire to have you get another degree. [Illegible] degrees, which in themselves, at least, mean so little. What you accomplish and what you are yourself are the things that count in live [sic] and not the degrees that you happen to be able to tack on to your name. I do wish your father could appreciate this, for I am sure that more than one Chinese student who has come to this country and been forced to work for a degree and hence look on it with undue reverence has been actually injured in the process and far less able to do his real job in the world as a result. I know it is going to be difficult to make your father realize all this, but I am going to try my best to put the situation to him tactfully and beg him to let you do something more worth while. If Dr. Sze is willing to cooperate to the extent of writing your father in the same vein, I am sure it would help mightily. Naturally I do not expect too much from anything I may say, for I doubt if your father has fully forgiven me yet for urging him to allow Mary to give up her college course, which in her case was little more than a farce, and to take up the nursing in which she is naturally so efficient and in which also she is evidently finding keen delight. Certainly if you are to do a real job in London, you can't be expected to find the time and strength to invest on the outside in the hunt for a degree. That, at least, year father should realize. So keep up your courage and take care of your health. We will work this thing out, and right, in the end if we stick to it and be patient. Wishing you an increasingly happy and prosperous New Year, and with warm personal regards, believe me Very faithfully yours, Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/474703c6507b2f95c73dfec7c04c59dd.jpg 1d1ae6ac547ade6cc04e203b24ffe247 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 1929, 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 Sao K. Alfred Sze, London, to Alfred E. Stearns December 4, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Sao K. Alfred Sze, London, to Alfred E. Stearns December 4, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sao K. Alfred Sze Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 4, 1929 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 December 4, 1929 Dear Dr. Stearns, I am just writing a line to tell you that Charlie has arrived and I have also received your letter of November 14th. My wife plans to visit New York City the latter part of January I will ask her to bring the piece of jade to New York with her. In due course I will let you know the name of her steamer and the date of arrival. When convenient will you let me know whether there are any friends of yours in New York to whom she may entrust the jade? With the compliments of the Season, Yours sincerely, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8a9fa450c2be471fb668ce249496f3a6.jpg 2804444e441b8756a283c29ea74f17d4 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 1929, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao K. Alfred Sze, London December 26, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao K. Alfred Sze, London December 26, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 26, 1929 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 December 26, 1929 Dear Doctor Sze: Thank you for your letter of December 4, advising me of Charlie Sun's arrival and your receipt of my letter of November 14. Charlie has already written me several times, and I judge from the tone of his letters that he has been passing through the natural period of homesickness and distress associated with readjustments to new conditions and the making of new contacts with strangers. I am glad to feel that a good friend like you is standing by to help him in this process. It will be wholly unsatisfactory to me to have Mrs. Sze bring the jade to New York with her when she makes the trip later. My own son is located in New York now and I can easily arrange to have him meet her if desired on her arrival. Wishing you and yours the happiest of New Years, and with kind personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze