100 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e30764e2bf0a0ced2c5fa91120606792.jpg 803ceb01bc98938f8a18e10f11b7e966 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, June 25, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, June 25, 1923 Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Sun: Thank you so much for your friendly and helpful letter of May 18th. I am glad to say that Mary’s attitude of late has shown a very marked and gratifying improvement. I think she has really been trying hard to make amends for the mistakes of the past and to prove by her actions and spirit that she is truly sorry and making an earnest effort to correct the weaknesses that have disturbed us. Arthur came out for a day or two recently and he feels that there has been a marked gain. We are not yet quite certain what the best course to pursue for next year is, but Arthur expresses a strong feeling that he would prefer to have Mary stay at the house another year and continue the work at Abbot Academy as a day pupil, rather than change schools again and start out in a totally new environment. I shall give the problem my most careful thought, for my wish is to do only what is distinctly the best for Mary herself, and regardless of every other consideration. The rest of the family are getting on nicely and have come through the year’s work with very satisfactory progress. They will leave for the Lake in a day or two, where I am making special arrangements for their care and oversight until the camp formally opens the latter part of July. The period between the closing of school and the opening of camp is always a difficult one to handle satisfactorily. The draft for $5,000.00 referred to in your letter reached me recently, and was credited at once to the accounts of your four children and Quincey Sheh; $1,000.00 to each. A statement of the accounts to date will be sent you during the summer. With my warmest personal regards, believe me always, Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 25, 1923 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9b3f5900c908d83c91e2d8e3dc5d85ba.jpg 75af3d8198226ec1dfe0e322b01f162c https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/37f670bfedd815e658f90361166ade9c.jpg 924fc4754a0997def013a211c1fb2cbc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, March 7, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, March 7, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun, Let me thank you for your very satisfactory letter which reached me several days ago. I should have written you long before this but I have delayed in the hope of securing some fairly satisfactory basis on which to estimate a proper charge to make for the housing and care of your children. My only regret is that this matter has to be considered at all, for I am free to admit that I thoroughly enjoy having the youngsters with me. For the first few weeks they were a bit on the defensive, which was only natural, and I felt a bit apprehensive as to how the experiment was going to work out. But as soon as they found that they were among friends their reserve changed to warm friendliness, and they have been as responsive and as eager to cooperate as one could ask. Before deciding what would be a fair charge I allowed several months to pass in order to see just how my house bills were running under the new regime. I also talked the situation over fully with Mr. Robinson in New York, for I know that he had been back in the country long enough to appreciate something of the nature of the present high prices in America. As a result of all this it has seemed that a charge of twenty five dollars a week for each of the children would not be far from the actual cost to me, and hence I have made the charge on that basis. In Arthur’s case I am charging only the room rent, as he boards at the school dining hall, and at the customary rate obtaining in the private houses where our boys are allowed to room, namely seven dollars a week. I confess that the charge seemed to me at first too high and I had hoped that I could figure it at a lower rate. In this I was disappointed. The biggest and most difficult problem with which I have to deal is the servants. You can hardly appreciate its character. The excessive prices paid by our mills during the war completely demoralized the whole servant question, bad enough even before. Servants are hard to get in any case, and when secured they demand from three to four times what they received only a few years back. More than that they will generally refuse to work for a family that counts more than three or four persons at the table. When the children first arrived last fall both of my maids promptly struck for higher wages which I was obliged to pay to keep them. In spite of that they left shortly after, and since that time we have had to change many times. My housekeeper has had to spend many days in Boston in employment offices hunting for new maids. And in addition to all this we have found it necessary to employ a third maid to help for a few hours each day with the cleaning. My help alone cost me at present no less than thirty five dollars a week, and that does not include their board which I have to furnish. These details very likely have little interest to you, but I merely desire to acquaint you with all the circumstances that you may form some idea of the nature of my problem and the general basis of my estimates, Some of our food prices have already fallen a bit, and I can assure you that if a shrinkage here on in any other housekeeping expense makes it possible to reduce the charge mentioned the reduction will be gladly made, for I do not wish to make money out of the transaction, Were it not for the troublesome servant problem I should look upon the presence of these youngsters in my household as an unalloyed pleasure though not unmindful of the significant responsibility involved. I have also tried to view the situation from other angles for the purpose of checking up my figures. The charge at a local boarding house not far from the school is thirty five dollars a week. At the Phillips Inn, the small hotel run in connection with the school, the charge is still higher. Again the good boarding schools are now charging from twelve to fifteen and even sixteen hundred dollars a year, and as these schools are regularly in session only about eight months of the full year those who attend them must still meet the expenses of the other four months. On the basis of the arrangements which I have made for the children the total expense ought to be less than it would be if they had been placed at the outset in boarding schools. At the same time I think they are getting fully as much as if they were so located. Our local public schools are good and I have secured the cooperation of the superintendent in getting them the best teachers available. Miss Clemons, who has charge of my house, is deeply interested in her new charges and is unusually well qualified to give them what they need. For a number of years she conducted a private school of her own in a neighboring city and later taught in one of our best boarding schools. My own daughter had been under her care for several years and at was from this work that she came to take charge of my house and family after it was found necessary for my wife to go to a hospital. She is very fond of children, devotes herself without stint to their welfare, but is strict and insists on proper obedience. In my judgment the combination of the public school and the personal care that Miss Clemons gives offers as much as if not more than the best schools would ordinarily supply, at least for the first year's stay in a new country. Of course the children have in addition the advantage of being able to enjoy and profit by all that the big school here offers in the way of games entertainments, musicals, lectures etc. I should not dwell on all of these things if my problem were not a bit unusual, I should very much have preferred to sit down with you in advance and agree upon proper terms before undertaking to carry out my part of the transaction. Tat [sic] would have been the business like way of doing things: but of course that was out of the question. The fact that you have placed such complete and such unusual trust in me in leaving all details to my decision renders me all the more sensible of the obligation I owe. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 March 7, 1921 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cbbf77ad5dd9168b6c827d5d5fc94bbe.jpg 0d5f1d6d494d8766ace49344fe35566a https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cf0ecc422850a330f7d57fb113319c73.jpg 72bbefc77f2f4dd86251f26685572988 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, May 5, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, May 5, 1922 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: I have received and read with keen interest your friendly letter of April 7. Your feelings about the importance of teaching these youngsters economy are fully shared by me; but I confess that in these unusual days I find it very hard to know just where to draw the line. In general let me say that the boys personally have shown little disposition to indulge in extravagances; for the past few months they have spent considerably less than they did when they first arrived. This is only natural, for at the outset there were special expenses which had to be met to cover new conditions, expenses which are unlikely to occur again. The largest item, where I feel that a curtailment might have been made, is that relating to the past summer. Unless boys away from home can join regular summer camps it is next to impossible to find suitable conditions or places under which they may safely pass the summer months. The camps referred to vary widely in character and price. The Y.M.C.A., for example, conducts a number of camps, but almost entirely for boys of very limited means and boys who, in the main, have had little cultural background. I felt pretty confident that such an arrangement would not commend itself to you as best for the children during their first summer in America. The camp which I selected for Arthur and Quincey was well known to me and in charge of men with whom I have been associated in the past, and felt sure that the boys would live there under the best of conditions. I knew it was fairly expensive camp but did not realize until the first bills arrived that the charges had been increased considerably above what i had known them to be in the past. Under the circumstances, I shall not make use of this particular camp next summer. I think, however, that I have found another that will answer the purpose and where the charges will be distinctly less; indeed the cost of living has fallen off a bit this year, and I now from my own experience that the charges of the past summer will probably not be justified this year. Even so, the expenses in connection with running a camp of this kind are always pretty heavy, if the boys who are there are to have the proper attention and the bets of conditions. Lin from the start has been very earnest in his desire to keep his expenses low. He has succeeded pretty well too. At his own request I found him a camp last summer where the rates were about as low as any. I think it was just the place for him last year, but he, himself, admits that he needs a different environment this year, and especially older boys. One of the hardest items to meet satisfactorily is that of clothes, as the price of clothing has fallen very little from the excessive prices which came into being during the war. Tom and Charlie have been growing so rapidly They have very much outgrown most of the clothes they brought with them and even some which were purchased soon after their arrival. Miss Clemons has made a special effort to secure good bargains from reliable firms; and such purchases have been made and for which there appeared to be definite need. In justice to the boys I ought to say that they have clung tenaciously to the old clothes, even when it was apparent that these should have been discarded, if the youngsters were not to give among their mates a definite impression of real poverty. As I said before, I have many evidences to indicate that the boys, themselves, were earnest in their desire to keep their expenses as low as possible. You have probably noted that Mary's charges for this year have been five dollars per week. I wish that I could make them less and still cover actual expenses. Of course if I lived in a simple home such as I should prefer to do and would do if it were not for my official position here, the problem would be immensely simple. I can assure you, however, that I shall do everything I can to carry out your expressed and very sensible wishes in this connection. Charlie continues to make particularly good progress in his school work. His teachers tell me that he is gathering momentum very rapidly, far more so than they had supposed possible Tom, as I have already intimated, will have to repeat the current year's work next year, but he ought to be able to handle it well by that time. This will put him only one year behind Charlie where, according to his age, he would naturally belong. From all I can gather, Arthur is working hard and with good success. Mary, I believe, is getting all we can expect from Abbot Academy this year, and certainly in the classroom more than she would have secured at Northfield. My biggest problem is to find the right school for her next year; for in these days the American boarding school for girls, especially, presents a curious phenomenon, and one hesitates to intrust a girl to the influences which seem to predominate in most, at least, of these institutions. Again thanking you for your very frank and helpful letter and with warmest personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 5, 1922 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/21bdc8a748358662da827a81e68f0724.jpg 223fd261a213e37823c0bc6ccadbbc28 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, November 29, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, November 29, 1922 Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Sun: I am enclosing herewith the statements of the children and Quincy Sheh for the past year. The receipts for the bills involved will be sent you under separate cover if you desire, or held here for possible future reference. Whichever plan you prefer will be perfectly satisfactory to me. I believe we have been able to cut down expenses a bit, this past year, though even so prevailing prices carry the outlays far higher than would have been the case in the older days, and than I wish might be true today. The children are all exceptionally well and seemingly happy. Arthur writes me encouragingly of his work and progress at the Institute of Technology and it is a real pleasure to be able to welcome him at the house over the weekend from time to time when he finds it possible to get away from his work. I hope to have all the boys at the house over the Christmas holidays. Tom seems to be doing much better this year. His work does not come so easily to him as it does to the other boys, but his spirit has been good and I feel sure that he is really trying hard to give you good returns. Charles has developed wonderfully. That boy ought to go far and be a real factor in the life of his country during the years just ahead of us. He has a fine mind, well balanced judgment, and a most manly and friendly disposition which win the confidence and respect of those whom he touches. Mary is making a good record at Abbot Academy. I have talked recently with her teachers and they all speak in very high terms of her ability and spirit. So far as her studies are concerned I have nothing whatever to complain of. In other matters it is not so easy to get a good response for, as you know, Mary has a stubborn streak in her; of value at times no doubt, but on other occasions a bit distressing. Both Miss Clemons and I have felt that Mary should have a reasonable amount of fresh air and exercise, her tendency being to stick to her books and in her room, from which fresh air is pretty rigorously excluded. Many attempts have been made to induce Mary to see the value of these recommendations, but they have met with little success, until we have almost given up hope of securing co-operation. I am sure you are as anxious as we are that Mary should grow strong physically as well as mentally, and it is with that belief that we have tried our best to induce her to observe a few rules of hygiene, on the wisdom and necessity of which all modern doctors are agreed. As the Christmas season draws near please accept the greetings of your friends across the world, and their expressions of esteem and friendly good will. I wish you might be here to join in the festivities of this holiday season in which, for the past two or three years, our Chinese friends have played the most important part. We expect a generous gathering of them again this year, with representatives from Harvard and Technology, and perhaps even Yale. If you could ever join that group our pleasure would be complete. With warmest personal regards, and every best wish for the days ahead, believe me, Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 November 29, 1922 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. 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Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, November 30, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, November 30, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: I am enclosing herewith the annual statements of the children's accounts This is not intended as a Christmas present, but it just happens that the middle of the fall term seems to offer me about the best chance in the year to find the opportunity to transmit the accounts to the proper form for forwarding to you. Perhaps they should be sent oftener. If that is your wish, I shall be glad to try to arrange it. Another matter - I am holding all receipts covering not only the current year, but receipts for the past as well, thinking that you might wish to have these but hesitating to send them by mail both because of their bulk and the possibility that they might be lost in transit. It was my thought that very possibly I should be able to hand them to some one of your countrymen who was returning to China and ask him to deliver them on arrival to you. If you have any definite instructions in the matter, please do not hesitate to let me have them. We had a delightful little Thanksgiving party at the house yesterday in which all of your children shared and which was made doubly pleasing to them and to us the presence of Miss Rose Hsiung who is Mary's guest for the Thanksgiving recess period. In addition, the boys in the house, the other Chinese boys in the school, including the two Yuan boys joined us, while Arthur and Frank Lin came out from Cambridge for the day. From all I can find out, Arthur is working as hard as ever at his students in Tech, but he finds the work pretty difficult at times, and especially in individual subjects. I am sure, though, that he is doing as well as we can ask of him and that he will continue to put forth his best efforts to get the most out of the opportunities offered. Frank also appears to be working hard, though, he, too, finds some of his subjects rather difficult. The members of the family still in my household have had, on the whole, a good year's record. Charlie's scholarship standing has not been quite so good this term as it was last year, but this seems to be due entirely to the fact that some of the new subjects had baffled him a bit at the start, for, so far as I can judge, there has been no relaxing of effort or interest on his part. Tom has definitely improved in his studies over last year, though some of the work is repeated work, as you doubtless know, which makes the schedule a little easier for him to handle. I have reason to feel, though, that from now on the boy will gain steadily and increase his momentum. This year Tom is entering heartily into wholesome school activities. He is singing in the school choir, which will no doubt interest you, as it is not easy for a native Chinese to adapt himself to Anglo-Saxon music. Tom's achievement in this respect is all the more creditable, therefore, and I have ben immensely impressed with the ease and naturalness with which he is getting to handle our vocal music. He is also developing into a pretty good little football player, and he had the distinction of playing against Exeter this fall, not as a member of the regular school eleven, but on another team picked from the various club teams of the school and which is permitted annually to have a friendly bout with a team picked from the class. teams of our good rivals at Exeter. I did not see the game, but those who did assure me that Tom's performance was distinctly creditable. Mary has shown, I think, a bit better and friendlier spirit all round. I believe, too, that she has been disposed to make a little more intimate contacts with the other girls at school and to take slightly increased interest in her school life and its general activities. She is still below par, if I may use that expression, in this respect, for her natural inclination is to follow old habits and shrink from activities pronounced in American school life, such as athletics and social interests. She is altogether too inclined, as we say in America, to "herd by herself," though both Miss Clemons and I have done everything we could to urge and encourage her to overcome this weakness. Chiefly on this account I am convinced that by another year Mary should take her place as a boarder, rather than a day scholar, in some good girls' school, where she would be more or less forced by circumstances to mingle freely with the other girls and enter whole heartedly into school activities. These opportunities are here now, but to use them to the full requires individual initiative which Mary has not shown in this respect so far, while there is always the change to dodge most of them if desired. As a boarder Mary would find the conditions somewhat different. The great problem is to find in these days a school that provides the activities mentioned above and so very desirable in themselves, but holding at the same time to the high and fine ideals that have in the past governed the life and work of most of our best American schools. Apparently most of our boarding schools today, especially those for girls, have yielded to the pressure of these superficial, social, and materialistic conditions so prevalent in our American life today. Mary has probably written you that it seemed best to give up the work with the violin. Her teacher assured me that both from the construction of Mary's hand, which doesn’t permit of long reach on the part of her fingers, and because of the age at which she began, she was not likely to make any worth while progress in this work. I have consequently allowed her to substitute for it this year special course in art, for which she evidently has distinct talent and which she thoroughly enjoys. I hope that you will approve of the change. With renewed assurances of my heartiest regard, and trusting that you will never hesitate to advise me frankly when you have any suggestions or criticisms to make that concern my relations with your children, believe me Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 November 30, 1923 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/019e66b49e146962f404da8c483c8fbc.jpg e7a79688fbc187bc36a1fecf04bb8b9a https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b2f1cbe570a25e7f8c2f90eb8390358a.jpg eb86aea7a031b9de8827fd73c3a9f2d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, November 5, 1920 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, November 5, 1920 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Now that the members of your family have been with us long enough to get acquainted a bit, at least, and I myself have had a chance to come to know them, I feel that you ought to have a word from me by way of report at least. We are still living in such absolute confusion at my house, owing to somewhat extensive repairs that are being made, that my only wonder is that the youngsters have not grown utterly discouraged and been ready to seek another home. They have borne the order, however, splendidly, and with the finest spirit, and I am hopeful now that within the next two or three weeks at the latest we shall be able to give them some idea what the interior of an American home is really like. If they have not already formed some strange opinions on this subject I should be very much surprised. Let me say at the outset that I have enjoyed, and continue to enjoy even more keenly as the days go on, the presence of those bright and responsive children in my home. In using the word children I do not mean to include Arthur, who is a man in more than years, and on whom I feel I can lean and with whom I can consult with confidence and immense profit. I don't know when I have met a boy who has impressed me so favorably as has Arthur as a boy of character, stability and poise. The youngest members of the family are also entitled to their full share of commendation. Their faults, if they have any, are only those of youth so far as I can judge. Charles inspires affection. Thomas, though a bit impulsive and occasionally disposed to sulk, is at heart sound and increasingly responsive. Mary has won the affection of us all and fits beautifully into the home life, where no one could be more cheery, responsive and helpful than is she. At present the boys are taking their at the house. This is because of the complications involved in the servant question, which is always a very difficult question in this country. I am still hoping, however, that a bit later I may be able to keep all three of the children with me for all the meals. From all I can gather the three children are doing well in their studies at the public school. The first reports of the term have not yet come in but I have reason to believe that they will prove in every way satisfactory when they come. All three seem keenly interested in their studies, though they are a bit digressed to make too free use, in their private conversations, of their mother tongue, for the best and quickest comprehension of the English language. In due season I count on them to appreciate for themselves the desirability of strengthening their English by a more constant use of it, without in any way lessening their knowledge of and love for their native tongue. Please understand that this is a brief report only, and a little later I hope to write you more fully, though I have no doubt that the children themselves will keep you informed from time to time of their work, life and progress. If there is anything in these reports to suggest that I can, by a clearer appreciation of their needs and problems, be of further and greater help to them I shall count on you to advise me with the utmost frankness, for it is my earnest desire to co-operate in every possible way in order that the American experience and education of your boys and girls may be best advanced, and that the great sacrifice which you and they are making to this end may bear fullest and richest fruit. With kindest regards believe me always, Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 November 5, 1920 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5608a0b5f2719316cf8af989af142d99.jpg 1f4930cbd482816f8770c7b3ffb4e82d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1cc0323e96ad24fb5532c7c519c38c8a.jpg 97246d5dbbddb3fca30406bd081e63ab Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, September 14, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, September 14, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Your welcome letters of July 11 and August 10 were duly received and should have been answered before this. The past few weeks, however, have been unusually busy ones, and at this moment the rush attending the opening of a new school year is at its height. I shall write you more fully later but send this word to thank you most warmly for the kind sentiments you have so generously expressed and to tell you briefly the plans that have been made for the children for this new school year. Let me first, however, acknowledge the receipt of your check for $3000 which, as requested, I have credited as follows: $1000 to Arthur $1000 to Quincy Sheh $400 to Mary $300 to Charles $300 to Thomas During the summer Arthur has been at the Camp Aloha Summer School where he has seemingly done excellent work in his studies and where he has made many and good friends. Quincy Sheh was at the same camp, and I have had from those in charge very warm words of commendation of both the work and spirit of these two boys. Arthur will enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston the last of this month. As he will be only about twenty miles from us I hope we shall see a good bit of him during the year. Quincy returns to Andover to complete its college preparation and will room in my house, though boarding in one of the regular school houses. Thomas and Charles are entering the Academy this week. They are a bit nervous, I can easily see, over the new responsibilities, but I feel sure that they will soon gain the confidence they need and will find it possible to meet the new school requirements in a satisfactory way. Owing to their ages which slightly below most of the boys who enter the school, I have not deemed it wise to give them full schedules this year. It is the usual practice here to allow town boys who live at home to enter the school somewhat younger than do the boys who come from a distance. To lighten up their work for the first two years and to permit them to take five instead of four years to complete their course this is the plan I have outlined for these boys and on this basis their schedules will include this year; regular Algebra; French; and a double course in English. In order that they may handle the other work to the best advantage it is very essential that the English foundation be made as strong as possible. If I find that the situation requires it, I shall arrange to give them some special work outside or the regular classrooms. I hope that this will not prove necessary. During the summer Tom and Charles have been at a summer camp up at my own summer place where they won the hearts of all and were among the most popular boys in the camp. I had them do a little work in English up there under a tutor in order to strengthen their knowledge of that subject. It seems best for me to keep these boys for another year in my own house where Miss Clemons, who has mothered them so satisfactorily this past year, will still be able to help and advise them. I had planned to have them board at the School Dining Hall and supposed that they would welcome this change. Just now they seem to prefer to remain with me, and I find that this is a deep-rooted preference, I shall hope to be able to allow them to stay. Mary was at my own summer home throughout the summer months. Unfortunately she does not like the woods and mountains and I am sure had a pretty unhappy time of it, especially as we were without maids during the last month and had to do a good bit of our own work. She did not, however, allow her feelings to mar the fine spirit and instincts that have always been hers and which stamp her as a rare and unusual girl. For this school year she has gone with my own daughter to Northfield Seminary. This is the school established by the late Dwight Moody, the well known Evangelist, and is now in charge of his son who has been a close and intimate friend of mine since boyhood. The Christian influences at this school are pronounced, though the restraints, in some ways, are more exacting than I would naturally prefer. I confess, however, that in America today practically all of the well known boarding schools for girls are so honeycombed with fads and fancies and modern superficialities that I dread the thought of subjecting a high-minded cultured girl to their influence. Northfield is as free form these things as any modern school could well be, and the courses of study there are of the very best. Most of the girls, it is true, come from families of limited means, but I do not feel that this fact can prove anything but helpful to both of the girls concerned. My home, of course, will still be Mary's, and I cannot tell you how much we miss her wonderfully sunshiny spirit from the household. I can see from your letter a trace of anxiety as to Mary's development, your feelings evidently being based upon the report I made to Mr. Liang of her excitement at the time of the Andover victory over her rival school. Please do not think that she has lost any of that inherent modesty and refinement that are so pronounced in her, and which it is my aim to preserve in every possible way. The Chapel is just across the street from my own home, and when she, Marjory, and Miss Clemons, in the enthusiasm of the moment, decided to pull the bell rope there, following an old custom, they were in as much seclusion as if they had been in their own back yard. I think I forgot to refer to the Latin situation in connection with Thomas and Charles. My feeling is that it will be better to limit the language work this year to French and English and to hold the Latin in reserve for next year, in case it seems wise to give them that subject. The larger majority of our Chinese students have not taken Latin, but I realize none the less its value and would be disposed to encourage the boys to include it in their schedule if they can do so without too great a strain. Of course a foreigner who works at a language is really working at two languages at one and the same time, since the medium through which he works, in this case English, is also a foreign language to him. The matter of the German also can be decided later. The main thing now is to give the boys a good and fair start. Let me state to you again in closing what a rare privilege I consider it to be allowed to have these most friendly and responsive children in my home circle. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 14, 1921 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/07dc0c8fd0e18e0126720a869033289b.jpg 30a9b7d05119541f0a8ee6c3319d8bc1 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b86059d949a73ffbba2780e9ae2d9c41.jpg f6cee337137647d588ee0762506474cf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, September 9, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, September 9, 1922 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Sun: Your letters of June 25, July 16 and 22 have been too long unanswered. They reached me, however, during the summer months up at my camp in the goods where letter writing at best is difficult and where my mail almost invariably gets away from me. I trust, therefore, that you will understand the reasons for and pardon my delay. We are now back in Andover. The boys, including Lin and Sheh, having preceded us by a couple of days. Mary drove down with us in the car. The trip at best is hard for her, as she is apt to be troubled with car-sickness, something which comes to [illegible] her, and to an even greater degree on the train. She stood the journey well, however, and is in the best of spirits now. The boys seem to have had a wonderfully happy and worth-while summer. I have no doubt they will write you about it. The camp was well managed this year and a great satisfaction, especially in view of the poor start which was made last summer. The chief difficulty I find with the boys is duly impressing upon them the importance of being neat and tidy about their rooms and the handling of their clothes and other possessions. During the actual camp session they did splendidly under the somewhat strict supervision of those in control. I allowed them to remain at the camp several days after the formal closing, camping out with themselves and the guide, and I confess that the condition in which I found things at the end of that time utterly discouraged me. They had done so well during the camp session that I was doubly surprised and disappointed. In other respects they had done all, and more, that one could wish, and I hope and trust that we shall be able to eradicate this weakness in their make-up. I thank you sincerely for your report of Mr. Liang and his activities. I value his friendship highly and am delighted to hear of the new honors that have come to him. I hope that even though his children are not to be under my charge and are to be located in another part of the state, they will occasionally find it possible to visit my home and mingle with the other boys. Accept my congratulations on the award of a Tsing Hua Scholarship to Arthur. The boy has earned it fully, in my judgment, and I am sure that the investment will prove a good one. The money will be duly credited to his account, as you have requested, and I shall be glad to advise you on its receipt and to give you any particulars I may learn later that seem likely to prove of interest to you. I assume that the money will be sent to me without any request on my part. I have already acknowledged the receipt of your check for $5000, and I am glad to learn from your letter, following the check, that my original assumption was correct; namely that $1000, each, shall be credited to Arthur, Charles, Thomas, Quincey, and Mary. Just so soon as the opening rush of the school year is over I hope to find time to draw off and send you copies of the individual accounts of the boys and Mary up to date. With warmest personal regards and trusting that you and your family are in the best of health, believe me Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 9, 1922 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/270642c3d2df94a99ed895eb0a8c3d3a.jpg 2edc7d6c269fb5e19edc1f3dc7010229 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 27 Folder 3 Alfred And Helen Tsai, 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 Tsai to Alfred E. Stearns Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Tsai to Alfred E. Stearns Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred Tsai Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy 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 sir. I didn’t hear you lately. I am very sorry that I haven’t write to for a long time. I am very health in school. Please don’t be worry about me. I will take care meself all right. We have little bit snow in Mont Vernon but not much. The weather is very cold. The school got a rule is the boy must go out from two P.M. to four P.M. but the teachers doesn't care how bad the weather is. Well our boys are very worry about when the winter comes. I had told you sister let her get a suit for me. She said when she have time will bring me to Boston. The tailors are very good in Miford and Manchester . Well I am going to ask the same old question again but not in money. Have you hear from Helen where she plan to go this Christmas? She wrote to me that she would like to go to New York City for three or four days. Every thing depend on you. I can’t say anything because you are my guardian. Write me soon please. Most sincerely yours, Alfred Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e046bce5d9d88ed77f79032601ad965c.jpg 0df621f8c2f62d27b72897bc4fabbe98 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 27 Folder 3 Alfred And Helen Tsai, 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 Tsai to Alfred E. Stearns, February 15, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Tsai to Alfred E. Stearns, February 15, 1928 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred Tsai 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 15, 1928 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 Alfred Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns