103 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e0f07b6f71d9af1e517d3e536d2d3a88.jpg aabb9b88ec8ccf7c7acaac23483d8c52 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 September-December 1926, 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 7, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, December 7, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Tommie: Thanks for your letter just received. I had a good visit with Mary in Elmira Sunday and found her in the best of health and spirits. She plans to pass her Christmas holidays in Springfield with friends. Charlie will be in Amherst, and Arthur will be at work probably not far from Springfield; so that I imagine that it would be a mighty nice thing if you could arrange to spend a few days of your vacation in Springfield or Amherst. Anyway, come and see me as soon as you get away for your vacation, and we can talk it over. I only regret that I can’t from circumstances provide a welcome in my home this year, as in the past, for you Chinese friends. No boxes have appeared from China yet, but if they do come and are in condition to forward and so that you can be sure of receiving them before you leave, I will send yours on. Otherwise I shall hold them here for further orders. Very sincerely yours, AES/G 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 7, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d9d0b7a9386dbde9cf4e1229df61f46b.jpg 8657a9d43883f80eef6d2d07602f2e66 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8b36e230c8736080dae93443b71358fd.jpg c0f968c88473a189c5179c756967fb38 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/522411fd6b49b4eacbefe7a83cf7e1ec.jpg 85f1a344cd239515ea81ccc9ec16f0e2 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6a9fa9398f26d4e2bce552f6fbd3aed9.jpg 5c95901355356ecaa013eea8d53a7e9a 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 September-December 1926, 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 Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, to Alfred E. Stearns, December 3, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, to Alfred E. Stearns, December 3, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas 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 3, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/32f2102ffd88da154240fa6494731a77.jpg ec09e6626d8ccbfb5b40dd4bc275cf55 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 September-December 1926, 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 Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, December 1, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, December 1, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: Thank you for your good letter just received. If your friends in Springfield are willing to provide for l you during the holidays or part of the holidays, I shall be perfectly willing to have you go there, especially as you will then perhaps be better able to gt in touch with Charlie and perhaps even Arthur. However, we will talk the thing over when I go to Elmira over this coming weekend. Faithfully yours, AES/G 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 1, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. 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Title A name given to the resource Letter from Mary Sun to Alfred E. Stearns, November 29, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun to Alfred E. Stearns, November 29, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary 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 November 29, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. 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Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, 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 Arthur Sun, Boston, to Alfred E. Stearns, January 17, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Arthur Sun, Boston, to Alfred E. Stearns, January 17, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Arthur 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 January 17, 1927 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 Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7dfdb815777fd61a0e71bc72bf0d5b89.jpg d7a515b69e5382fdad4812a4ded898fc https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/02a7635fdfd790234cd6097bb5cab771.jpg 939411bae8e15371cc9a18ddd5cb4c18 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 January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 19, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 19, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: I have read with deep interest your last letter. It is one of the best you have ever written me, for it indicates careful thought and deliberation on your part. Further, in spite of quite a few grammatical errors, you have expressed your thought well. I am immensely interested in your problem but hardly know what to advise. Of course I can’t blame you for wishing to go home at the end of this year: nor can I blame Mary, for, as I think you and I both realize, it is really much harder for a girl to endure this long separation from home than it is for us of the other sex. Naturally I can understand your father’s desire that Mary should finish her college course before going home. On the other hand, I am inclined to think that a break and visit in the old home, even if it were for only the summer months, would freshen Mary up a lot and tend to offset her present discouragement. I realize only too well that she can't do justice to her studies if she is going to continue in her present frame of mind. Again, in your own case I don't, of course, know what to advise, for this is clearly your father's responsibility, and I have no doubt he has given the matter long and careful thought. I sometimes wonder whether he is not more concerned than he is willing to admit to you over the chaotic conditions now prevailing in China and the possibility of further and more extended troubles in the near future. Under such circumstances it would be only natural if he preferred to have you postpone the home-coming until things had settled down a bit, for, if conditions are anything approaching what the reports indicate them to be, an engineer, or any other professional man for that matter, would certainly find it more than difficult to make a good start. I don't feel that I can properly urge your father to take any action which does not commend itself to him as wise, but if he gives me the opportunity to do so, I shall be ready and glad to stress your side of the matter and explain why I can't help feeling a good bit of sympathy with your position. No, I have not heard from your father yet. Indeed I have received no word from him for many months. I can only hope that he will send me a word in the not distant future to indicate a little more clearly what he has in mind, so that I will have some ground on which to discuss the matter further with him. What you say about Tom interests and pleases me immensely, for I had come to have something of the same feeling about him myself, though I really saw very little of him when he was here. His letters, however, and the way he has been handling his money would seem to indicate that he had been developing better balance and judgment than were his in times past. I have not yet received his scholarship report for the first semester but am hoping for the best. Tom assures me that the report is going to be an excellent one, but I can’t trust too much to his hopes, for, as you know, he has always been an optimist in his predictions, though the predictions were rarely fulfilled in the actual reports from the office. Don’t hesitate to run out here some evening if you care to discuss matters further and more intimately. I am eager to do everything I can to help but naturally feel my limitations. Faithfully yours, 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 January 19, 1927 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 Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1e8c2f573e2c2b52fb9a7820da26f201.jpg 64e8198d7e8204ce2fd1c32cf634093e https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/344a663ebfc29fc3f70059c12e4dca3c.jpg e16f2d69060e758b3827819370dac369 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 January-June 1927, 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 Copy of letter (for Stearns) from Ernestine H. French, Elmira College, to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., January 11, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Copy of letter (for Stearns) from Ernestine H. French, Elmira College, to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., January 11, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Sze: After receiving your letter yesterday asking for a frank report on the status and prospects of Mary Sun, I looked up her record in the Dean's office and found that Mary had received only one "warning" (which means unsatisfactory work) and that was in French last month. I found in talking with the Dean that Mary was allowed and advised by her to drop French because of the natural linguistic difficulties which, combined with an otherwise hard schedule, made the continuance of French this first semester too difficult for her. It will only mean the making up of two hours which can be done much more easily at some future time when college work and everything connected with it are not so new and strange. Even without the French Mary is carrying fourteen hours a week, including the laboratories. I have talked with each of the professors in the departments in which Mary is working -- Biology, Chemistry, English and Bible and find that they all agree that Mary is an average student doing passing work. Miss Whittaker, head of the biological department said that some time ago she had asked one of the young instructors to give some special attention to Mary and Tsao Ching to familiarize them with terms and to go over some of the points that the other students had previously had in High School. This seems to have helped them very much and their work has been quite satisfactory. Miss Eastom reports that Mary does very good work in Chemistry, in fact much better than that done by some of the American students. Professor Mould reports that Mary's work in Bible is like that of the average American student -- it is passing but not particularly good. In English, also, the report is that there is no question of Mary's not passing -- she is doing satisfactory though not excellent work. Her English teacher told me that she had felt that Mary might do better in English and that she wanted her to improve and so had been a little severe with her. She feels that Mary is, perhaps, a little "spoiled" and apt to become discouraged if she is not praised and made a great deal of. Her idea in telling Mary that she must do better work and show more improvement in her English work was that a little wholesome criticism would be good for the girl. Nearly every girl has a period of discouragement during her first year at College. There are so many new adjustments even for the native students to make, that it is quite natural that the difficulties should at times seem insurmountable to the girls and Page two that they should be tempted to want to give the whole thing up. Added to this very natural situation which must be faced by almost everyone, is Mary's present physical condition which makes everything look dark to her. She came back from the Christmas vacation with a very bad cold. Our resident physician is looking after her and makes Mary lie down and rest for one hour every afternoon. This rest is in place, I believe of the regular gymnasium work, and is a very excellent thing in every way for a girl who is temporarily run down. We all feel that it would be a very great mistake for Mary to leave college now. She has really passed through the most difficult part -- and successfully, although not with such distinction as she evidently would have liked. Examinations being this week and that is another thing which makes her anxious. Her professors have assured me that she is likely to pass although she herself seems to think that her marks are so poor that she is ashamed of them. I believe that she rates her accomplishments too low and the possibilities of achievement under the circumstances, too high. Mary is well liked by the students and made a great deal of by them. She has been invited several times to spend the week-end in Corning at the beautiful home of Mrs. Samuel Hawkes whose daughter was at Sea Pines Camp with Mary, but Mary has never accepted the invitations, thinking that she was too busy with her work. Professor Mould of the department of Bible and Mrs. Mould plan to entertain Mary with some of the other students in their home very soon. Of course, I have had Mary at my house and have asked her to come whenever she can, but she has not accepted without a special invitation. Personally, I feel, very strongly that Mary's feeling of discouragement, while perhaps natural under the circumstances, should not be taken seriously. She is doing as good work as the average student and all conditions surrounding her college life, so far as I can see, are pleasant, wholesome and beneficial. I believe that it would be a very grave mistake for her to be allowed to "give up." I trust that this report will be of assistance. You and Dr. Stearns may rest assured that a very personal interest is taken in Mary as in all of "our girls" at Elmira. We want each and everyone of them not only to develop into the best possible women but to be happy in doing so. President Lent as you know takes a very special interest in each student. He has asked to have a talk with Mary tomorrow. With very cordial good wishes for the New Year to you and Madame Sze, I am Sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ernestine H. French 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 January 11, 1927 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 Ernestine French Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a88e9c37ef23925670385b093e4d8eee.jpg 7059c9f4a8099a8b616052a25a9d4db3 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3cc5f70d4d3ea4fded2d010c07da7e73.jpg c1299b66938ae587825c34bc89070ea2 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 September-December 1926, 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 Maude (Mrs. Walter E.) Perry, Springfield, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns, November 29, 1926 (regarding Mary Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Maude (Mrs. Walter E.) Perry, Springfield, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns, November 29, 1926 (regarding Mary Sun) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Maude (Mrs. Walter E.) Perry 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, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun Maude (Mrs. Walter E.) Perry https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/73a667c8e5acf67a97bd99358029b83d.jpg da039d58e4cc4187919c7091b9d8055a 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 January-June 1927, 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-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C,. February 5, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C,. February 5, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Sze: I wish to thank you for sending me so promptly the copy of Miss French's letter. Very sincerely yours, 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 February 5, 1927 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e54f72c6f6e02a6f0ebd4305c245e68d.jpg b1601b26154d8a4b1ae18a1cc4332e5b https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a6591e847a89080e48509787ade74a06.jpg 803087ba300ba987f64cc0f4ec8ef103 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 September-December 1926, 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 William S. Murray, Grand Central Terminal, New York City, to Irving, December 4, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from William S. Murray, Grand Central Terminal, New York City, to Irving, December 4, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Relation A related resource My dear Irving: Delighted to get your letter today. I am not going to consider any of the possibilities that may deflect you from the Red Pencils, as I am counting on your being there. A change of climate is very essential to both you and Mrs. Moultrop. May I take this opportunity to way that the following are advices on the young Chinese technology student, Arthur Sun. He called on Mr. Weston and Mr. Eddy. Mr. Weston saw him but Mr. Eddy was away. Mr. Weston seemed to think that he had better hold on to his present job. He was very nice to him, however, and wants later to have him dine with him. Young Sun, and I think he is right, wants to be affiliated with one of those two firms, and he is counting on an opportunity to go with Mr. Eddy’s firm. It is my understanding that Mr. Eddy returned to his office December 1st. Sun had a very nice talk with Mr. Eddy’s right hand man, Mr. Frail, who asked him to fill in an application blank. He has done this. I have read a letter that Sun has written to Dr. Stearns at Andover, and it has given me some good reactions about him. If an opportunity lends, and I am not imposing too much, perhaps should you Know Mr. Frail or Mr. Eddy, you might say a good word in his direction prior to the time the young man has his interview. I have advised Dr. Stearns that it is best for Sun to hold on to his present job until he can land something with either Mr. Weston or Mr. Eddy. With my best regards, - Cordially yours, WSM:R Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William S. Murray 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, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns William S. Murray