129 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bc27108e951ab6b398729566befd4128.jpg 7345cf51b63ff1f68acef3437055a82c 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 2 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Mr. F.L. Bateman, September 20, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Mr. F.L. Bateman, September 20, 1926 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to F.L. Bateman about Helen Tsai's missing suitcase. Explains his ward, Helen Tsai, is missing a suitcase. Believes it was lost between the Drake Hotel and the train station. Asked Bateman to search for the bag. Mentions Mr. Drake, a friend, would be willing to search the hotel for the suitcase. Describes the suitcase. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. 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 September 20, 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Relation A related resource September 20, 1926 Mr. F.L. Bateman 7 South Dearborn St. Chicago, Ill. My dear Mr. Bateman: The two latest Chinese words to be entrusted to my care reached Andover a day or two ago, the son and daughter of Admiral Tsai of Peking, who, I believe, is a personal friend of yours. The girl, Miss Helen Tsai, as I understand she is to be known in this country, is distressed over the loss in Chicago of her suitcase, which she tells me disappeared somewhere between the Drake Hotel and the train on which she left Chicago. As nearly as I can gather from her story of conditions, the bag was probably left at the Drake Hotel or in the station In Chicago, where I think the time for boarding the train was extremely short. Anyway, the bag is missing and I am wondering whether there is any chance that you could start investigations looking to its recovery, though I am afraid that it is perhaps unlikely that such efforts will meet with success. It has occurred to me that Mr. Drake himself, a good personal friend of mine, would be eager to institute an unusually thorough search in his own hotel in case the bag was left there. I understand that the bag is brown in color with white lettering, the letters representing Miss Tsai initials. Y. K.T, I shall appreciate, as will she, may help you can give us. Very sincerely yours Dr. Alfred E. Stearns F.L. Bateman https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f48ff582cee9a8e577d2dc14800c994d.jpg 8d430c4cdcaff036636ac0d9e8f5479d 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 2 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, October 5, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, October 5, 1926 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai. Congratulates Helen on her first English letter. States she did well and if the situations were reverses, Stearns' first Chinese letter would not be as good. Hopes to see her at school again once the school year begins. Asks if Alfred visited last Sunday. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. 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 October 5, 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Relation A related resource Miss Helen Y.K.Tsai Whittier School Merrimac, Mass. My dear Helen: Your interesting and cheerful letter reached me yesterday, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. It was very nice of you to write and I must congratulate you on doing so remarkably well on your first attempt. I am perfectly sure that, if I had had the same amount of training in Chinese that you have had in English and had attempted to write you a letter in your native tongue, I could you have begun to do as well as have done in this instance. It was good to get that little glimpse of you at your school last week, and I hope to get over again before long and have a look at you when the actual school year and school work are under way. I am sure you will like the school and will go ahead very fast in your work, for certainly you have the right kind of spirit to assure success. Did you see Alfred last Sunday? He called at my house Sunday afternoon, my cook tells me, while I was out for a short walk. I think my sister-in-law must have driven him down. As she told me sometime ago that she hoped to drive him down to Merrimac some day, I thought that very probably they had stopped in Andover on their way to see you. I certainly hope that he had a chance to visit you, for I know that this would have meant a great deal to you and to him, too. I wonder if he is still “Oberlin sick?” Wishing you very success in your work and plenty of enjoyment from the school life, and hoping to see you soon, believe me Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Helen Tsai https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7fc03ac054bc33a5fc2d193d1ad0e8ea.jpg ee2dacb57ff4983edab952cf15200621 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 2 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Mr. Yung Kwai, September 17, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Mr. Yung Kwai, September 17, 1926 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Yung Kwai. Provides updates on the Tsai children. States they arrived in Andover on September 16. Explains both children will be in a home-school type, where English is stressed. Explains it will prepare the children for larger schools. States arrangements have been made to place both children in schools. States the children will stay in Andover until the schools open. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. 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 September 17, 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Relation A related resource September 17, 1926 Mr. Yung Kwai Chinese Legation Washington D.C. My dear Mr. Tung: Thank yon for your letter of September 15 and a copy of the telegram earlier sent me. Admiral Tsai’s two children arrived in Andover yesterday with their friend Mr. Young. They are most friendly, and I am sure that I am going to enjoy new contacts with them. Unfortunately most of the schools do not open until later in the month and some early in October. It seems clear that both of the newcomers should have a year in smallschools, what we call the home school type, where they can stress English and hence be qualified a year later to meet all of the demands in larger schools where they will be thrown naturally on their own resources and will be required to have a good working knowledge of the language. This is the policy that I have pursued with many of my Chinese wards in the past, and I have consequently arranged to place the Tsais into good schools of the character mentioned. Both of these schools are scheduled to open some two weeks hence but have agreed to make provision for these foreigners at least a week is advance of the dates of opening. In the meantime, I shall allow them to stay here in Andover, probably at the Phillips Inn which is a quiet little hotel controlled by the school just on the edge of our own school campus and is every way a wholesome place for them to be. Very sincerely yours Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Yung Kwai https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9233b6b67e9239bbfba280a496500e44.jpg c13086fe5b06d92747acc5902a337b2f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1fcd903cff0cfcc7f8fc096508fae6ae.jpg dec0fa65d1c13ad09d6b69af5b6442fc 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 2 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, July 12, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, July 12, 1926 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze about arrangements for the Tsai children. Promises to do everything he can for the Tsai children. Explains finding homes for early Chinese that influence American life and education are rare. Relies on smaller home-schools to prepare Chinese students. Asks if it necessary to enroll children in same school as co-ed schools are hard to find. Has 2 small home school in mind, which aren't in the same town, but are close by. Will also try to keep school expense reasonable. Asks about the requirements by the Department of Labor in regards to approved schools. Explains Andover was not on this list until the previous year, but took Chinese students many years before. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. 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 July 12, 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Relation A related resource Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze Chinese Legation Washington, D.C. My dear Dr. Sze: On my return to Andover Saturday, I found on my desk your two telegrams relating to the children of Admiral Tsai and wired you at once: “Wil be glad to do what I can for children of Admiral Tsai.” This morning’s mail brings me your letter of July 7 with further details, and I am writing simply to say that I shall be ready to do everything in my power to carry out Admiral Tsai’s wishes, though I am not sure that I am wholly competent to handle effectively the problems of Chinese girls. Under the circumstances, though, you may count on me for whatever help you feel I am competent to offer. A word as to the schools and surroundings to be selected for the first year. As you probably know, it is almost impossible to find the type of homes today which welcomed the early Chinese to this country and which figured so influentially in their American life and education. Where there are such homes, the domestic problems have so completely changed as to make it very difficult to add to the size of the family circles without upsetting the kitchen, if you can understand what I mean. For the past ten or fifteen years I have found it increasingly difficult to make arrangements of this kind for boys who needed just this kind of a start, and in consequence I have had to turn to smaller schools of the home school variety. Such a course, it seems to me, would have to be adopted in the present instance, though here again there are some obstacles, as you have intimated in your letter to Admiral Tsai. May I ask one or two definite questions. Would you consider it necessary for the two visitors to be enrolled in the same school or even in the same town? C-educational schools, in this part of the country at least, which can be unreservedly endorsed are very hard to find. Further separate schools for the girl and the boy, if they are to be in the same town, must again limit radically the range of the selection. Under the circumstances, I should be disposed to recommend two small home schools, not necessarily in the same town but not too far apart, permitting at least occasional visits back and forth. Do you think I am right in assuming that such an arrangement would, under the circumstances, meet best the necessities of the case? Here again the question of expense naturally enters in, but I will try, of course, to select schools where the expenses would be kept as reasonable as possible and which would at the same time be regarded as first-class. As you doubtless know, a good many of these schools, especially for girls, today charge from $1200 to $1500 for the regular tuition alone. I am not quite sure about the steps that must be taken with the Department of Labor in regard to securing so-called approved schools. It is my impression that in the past these Chinese students have some directly to me, giving Phillips Academy as the school which they propose to enter and then when not quite ready for our work entering temporarily other schools recommended by me but not necessarily on the approved list of the Department of Labor. As a matter of fact, Phillips Academy was never on this approved list until last year when, through the question of the return of one of our boys resident in Jerusalem, the matter was called to my attention and the necessary official requirements met. So far as I can recall this particular factor has never come up in connection with some sixty or seventy Chinese boys who have come to Andover during my connection with the school. Very probably the requirements are more exacting today than they have been in the past. In any case, I am anxious to do nothing that shall leave any possibility of embarrassment lately to either Admiral Tsai or his children. Very sincerely yours Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/fad8780643f201d7ca92a4f84715eb9e.jpg be16c57bf7adb0f8cd474b0d071f6db1 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 2 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, September 11, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, September 11, 1926 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze. Asks for names of Tsai children in order to set up accounts. Received check of $2,000. Asks the Tsai children report to Andover so Stearns can decide where to place them. Explains many Chinese students need a year in preparatory school, especially to focus on English. Will send letter to Kwai. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. 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 September 11, 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Relation A related resource September 11, 1926 Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze Chinese Legation Washington, D. C. My dear Dr. Sze: On my return to Andover I find your letter of September 9 and the accompanying check $2,000.00, which 1 shall hold for the expenses of Admiral Tsai’s two children. Please send me the names of these two newcomers in order that I may be able to handle their accounts intelligently. Our school opens the first of this coming week, and if the boy is going to be able to meet cur requirements here without some further preparation, he should report at the earliest possible date. Of course I have not been able to make any definite arrangements yet for either of those travelers, since I am wholly ignorant of the extent and character of their previous work. A large number of our Chinese students who have come to us in the past have had to put in at least a year in small schools in order to get the foundation, especially in English, required to insure successful work in the larger classses of a school of this kind. If, therefore, you will instruct the Tsais to report here as speedily as possible, I shall be glad to go over their cases very carefully with them and then decide what the wisest course to adopt for the current year is likely to be. I am sending this letter to Mr. Tung Kwai, as requested, in case you may have sailed for Europe before its receipt. Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/eb174209fdd70caccf273e48b07b2bbc.jpg 565ad8b927ceab4582f7cfbf6c8d214e 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 28 Folder 1 Mary Sun, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze about current events in China. Discusses the "Red Army of General Feng". Mentions similar statements made by Dr. Grenfell of Labrador. Understands why Mr. Sun hasn't been able to write. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 30, 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Relation A related resource April 30, 1926 Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze Chinese Legation Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Sze: Thank you so much for your kind letter of April and the accompanying letter of Mr. Sun to you. This letter I have read with keen interest. What a dreadful strain your countrymen at home are passing these days. I don’t wonder that Mr.Sun finds it difficult to settle down write ordinary letters. What he writes of this "so-called Red Amy of General Feng "is immensely interesting. Only recently I heard Grenfell of Labrador who had just visited China, make almost identically the same statements about General Feng and his troops. Dr. Grenfell naturally is an impartial observer and interested only in the welfare of humanity as a whole. I do hope that the clouds out there may soon lift and peace and quiet prevail. Again my hearty thanks for the very great and sincerely appreciated help yon have given me in handling my somewhat complicated problem, and with kindest personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0e928bb6437245bdd2bc0318039c9692.jpg 028a9b1ee383da9235dfc1d6e196329d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f294546c79d37afc5ada574111d7a580.jpg e327c477e382c549782d5d326b7330e4 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 28 Folder 1 Mary Sun, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Mr. Arthur Sun, April 30, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Mr. Arthur Sun, April 30, 1926 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Mr. Arthur Sun. States bills will be covered and asks for clarification on a bookstore bill. Provides updates on Mary's well-being and progress. Discusses a letter sent by his father and Mr. Sze about Mary's education. Mentions Mr. C.Y. Sun's response to current events in China. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 30, 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Relation A related resource April 30, 1926 Mr. Arthur Sun 93 Tech Dormitory Cambridge, Mass. Dear Arthur: I have your letter of April 28 and the accompanying bills. The latter will be settled promptly. I do not understand about the Cooperative bookstore bill. for I sent a check to cover that at least a week or ten days ago. If the chock has not been received, please let me know. I am enclosing a check for the May allowances, as requested. The last reports I have had from Mary and Mrs. Russell indicate that Mary is working- hard, is getting some good results, and is apparently increasingly contented. I think that she is really looking forward now to the college course, and I am sure that she will get mush cut of it. Mr. Sze and I are both agreed that a smaller college, like Emira out in New York State, represents the type of institution that would do most for a girl of Mary’s tastes and caliber. This morning’s mail brings me a letter from Mr Sze, enclosing a letter he had just received from your father. He also gives me a copy of a cablegram which he had recently sent to your father, and it now seems as if we all understood each other and were in agreement as to the course adopted and that still to be followed for Mary. Mr. Sze himself has kindly taken up the matter of Mary’s admission at Emira, for one of his wards or relatives is already a student there and he, himself, has close personal friends (on the faculty What a time your countrymen are having these Lays? Your father in his letter to Mr.Sze speaks of the exciting times in China as quite unparalleled in any previous experience”. He speaks of a strain on his nerves, and I don’t wander that such a strain exists under circumstances. Apparently no one seems to know just what is ahead. With all good wishes to you, believe me Faithfully yours, Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/87baba1cdba190d74c7393d2d306d3be.jpg ec0657d48da1654797a78ad1ebe7779d 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 28 Folder 1 Mary Sun, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Miss Mary Sun, April 21, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Miss Mary Sun, April 21, 1926 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun. Thanks her for the statement of accounts. States Charlie should send the amount Mary loaned to him to keep both accounts current. States that Mary wouldn't be considered an official senior. States she shouldn't have to pay and to explain Mrs. Russell. Explains a certificate or diploma from Merrimac wouldn't mean much. States the goal is preparation for college and the college diploma is the important certificate. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 21, 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Relation A related resource April 21, 1926 Miss Mary Sun Whittier School Merrimac, Mass. Dear Mary: Many thanks for your recent letter and for the statement of accounts. I understand perfectly that the Washington trip was an expensive one at best and see nothing to complain of in the expenditures you have recorded. Charlie, however, ought to send back and I shall ask him to do so, the amount you loaned him so that your two accounts may be kept in proper order. I don’t see any reason why you should appear as an official senior, at least to the extent of having to meet that extra payment for a senior prom. Just tell Mrs. Russell that you do not dance and that, as you are a special student, neither you nor I believe, that you should be called on to assume this added obligation. In view of your short stay at Merrimac, I can’t see that such a certificate or diploma as you might earn there could really be considered of any great value. The main thing is to get ready for college, and of course the college diploma, which we shall count on your taking later, will be the thing that really counts. With every good wish and the hope that I may be able to run over before long and have a look at you, believe me always Sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6fa1933b9b6de1ea55f49164d018ae86.jpg f7067c0e0936a6496abebcdfad02995c 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 28 Folder 1 Mary Sun, 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 Note from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Dr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, April 21, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Note from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Dr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, April 21, 1926 Description An account of the resource Typed note sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Dr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze about Mary's college education. States the progress made at Elmira will allow them to fulfill their plan for Mary's education. Thanks for Mrs. French's letter. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 21, 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Relation A related resource April 21, 1926 Dr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze Chinese Legation Washington, D.C. My dear Dr.Sze: Thank you for sending me Miss French’s letter. Evidently you have made real progress with your friends at Emira, and I am sure that we ought now to be able to carry this proposition through to a happy and successful conclusion. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4512771e3db6d3fe49d2936d0e689d6d.jpg 70a7e17a5e7e24b58246f29d1b41f266 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/54b4b3f5bf4539dad2859ad89425a81b.jpg 6c3a62f90d0bf9304d27bae888941ce6 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 28 Folder 1 Mary Sun, 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 Dr Alfred E. Stearns to Mr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, April 7, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr Alfred E. Stearns to Mr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, April 7, 1926 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Mr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze. States arrangements for picking Mary up from Washington. Agrees with Sze's suggestions for Mary's education and attending Elmira. Sent a letter to Mr. Sun describing the situation. Explains how difficult the situation has been with interference from Mary's friends, through no fault of Mary's. Explains that no restrictions have been placed on Mary's correspondence other than her first two days at Merrimac. Also states she should follow the same rules as other girls at the school and not ask for special favors. Asked that Mary focus on school work and find balance between school and friends. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 7, 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 Relation A related resource April 7. 1926 Mr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze Chinese Legation Washington, D. C My dear Mr. Sze: Your three letters of recent date have reached my desk this morning. Accept, please, my thanks for them and especially for the clear and intelligent way in which you have helped me deal with this rather knotty and troublesome problem. I note that Mary is to leave Washington at 7: 30 P.M. tomorrow, April 8. I will try to get in touch with Arthur by telephone to-night so as to be sure that he will be on hand to meet Mary on her arrival in Boston Friday morning. If he is unable to do this, I can probably arrange to have some one go in from here. I note also that you and Charlie have both agreed that Mary should finish out the year at the Whittier School, pursuing special work with the object of preparing for college in this shortest possible time. The suggestion that Elmira is probably the best fitted for Mary’s needs meets, on the whole, with my full approval, and I shall await with interest any farther information you may be able to secure from the Elmira authorities as to the admission requirements that will be demanded of Mary and the possibilities of having her do special work during the summer with some competent and reliable member of the college faculty. Such an arrangement would be a great relief, for I must admit that one of the most difficult problems I have faced with Mary has been to provide satisfactorily for the long summer vacations. I can’t tell you how deeply I appreciate your friendly helpfulness and how greatly relieved I am to feel that I can count on your generous assistance in dealing with this problem from now on. On my return from my visit to Washington I wrote Mr. Sun at great length and in detail, describing the situation, telling him of my discussion with you and the conclusions which we reached, and outlining as clearly as I could the complete picture. I told him how difficult the problem had been made through the unwarranted interference by well-meaning but uninformed friends of Mary and that you and I had both come to feel that the arrangement with the Wittier School should continue for the balance of the year. I also intimated that I did not consider Mary responsible for the trouble and that my whole object had been to shield her from the interference of her friends whose attitude and actions could only tend to distract her thoughts and interfere with her work. I agree with you that under the circumstances a further cable message seems hardly necessary. The reference in one of your letters to Mary’s request for the release of "all restrictions placed upon her, such as receiving and sending correspondence and receiving visitors, since her going to Merrimac" is a bit difficult for me to understand. As I have explained to Mary, no definite restriction was placed on the correspondence by me except during the first two days she was at Merrimac, and then only for her own protection. I suggested to her, by letter as well as by telephone that she should not devote too much of her time to writing to her friends, only because this would consume time which should of necessity be given to her lessons. It was also stated frankly that she could receive visitors on the regular day set apart by the school for that purpose but that she must not ask for or expect to receive special favors in this direction that were not granted the other girls, as advertised in the school catalogue. Most certainly I have no desire to assume any attitude or take any steps that shall prevent Mary from having a reasonable and proper contact with her friends, provided only she doesn’t indulge in excesses in this direction which would necessarily interfere with her work and progress and hinder the attainment of the goal that we all had in mind for making the change of school and in investing the extra money that such a change made necessary. With sincere appreciation of your many favors and with kindest regards, believe me Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun Sao Ke Alfred Sze