149 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9e84a31b1788318cce8c54766e1c4081.jpg affd13a13e718250f003ac7629024e11 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 2 Tu, 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 C.H. Sampson, Huntington School headmaster, May 9, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.H. Sampson, Huntington School headmaster, May 9, 1929 Description An account of the resource Typed letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Huntington headmaster C.H. Sampson about K.Y. Tu. Has tried to persuade Tu to return to China though Tu's father has not agreed to the recommendation until recently. Informed Tu of the decision and asked Tu to visit to discuss, who refused. Held back allowance until Tu visited and will continue to do so. States Sampson's letter convinced Stearns Tu's best course of action is to return to 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 May 9, 1929 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource May 9, 1929 Headmaster C.H.Sampson 32 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts My dear Mr. Sampson Thank you for your frank letter about my so-called ward, C.Y.Tu. For two or three years now I have been trying persuade this boy to return to China, as I have been clearly convinced that he has been only wasting his time and his father’s money by remaining in this country. Up till recently, it has been impossible for me to secure the father’s approval of my recommendation. Several months ago, however, he wrote me saying that he had accepted my judgement and asking me to instruct his boy to return to China at an early date. I passed on the instructions, only to receive the usual remonstrances. Then I wrote Tu to come out and see me, but he has not come. Next, I wrote him that I would him no more money for his expenses in this country until I had had at least a chance to talk with him and convince that he must promptly acquiesce in his father’s decision and make his plans to return to China. I have not seen him since, though my secretary tells me that this morning he telephoned the office, asking for his May allowances, which I have not sent his, adding that he was coming out this coming Saturday morning to talk with me. Needless to say, I shall hold the allowance until his comes, and probably longer, though I do not wish him to leave the country, of course, until he has settled all legitimate bills. From the above you will understand how thoroughly I appreciate your letter. I am hoping that it will aid me distinctly in convicing the bot that there is only one thing for him to do now, and that is to start for China. Faithfully yours. C.H. Sampson Dr. Alfred E. Stearns K.Y. Tu https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/aaf7315a95e99156b5c5f534129821e9.jpg be8564ed8cbb6784310e623c8e9de2bc 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 Stearns Folder 4464, 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 C.K. Chien, February 14, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.K. Chien, February 14, 1923 Description An account of the resource Typed letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.K. Chien suggesting that Chien consult with Dr. Zelie in order to setup an hour in the evening for a meeting between himself and the Chinese students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute during Stearns' upcoming visit to the school. Agrees that such a meeting would be suitable. 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 February 14, 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 Relation A related resource February 14, 1923 Mr C. K. Chien, 80 Eagle Street, Troy, New York. My dear Chien: I have your interesting letter of February 11th, the contents of which have been read with care. Indeed, I should welcome the chance to talk to the Chinese boys at Troy when I coms there next Sunday. Perhaps you can best make definite arrangements with Dr. Zelie himself. I am due to preach at Williams College in the morning and, recording to Dr. Zelie, must leave Williamstown about soon for Troy. The service at Troy, I believe, comes at either four or five o’clock in the afternoon. Probably there would not be much time to meet you before that service, but the evening ought to furnish an opportunity, as I plan to take the late train that night, at Albany, for Boston. I would suggest therefore, that you talk the matter over with Dr. Zelie and see if we can’t work in an evening hour for the meeting in question. Faithfully yours C.K. Chien Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5dd3f5a888942e8f2642632265d4202d.jpg a7da0eda76c52a916670f53db2dab4a4 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 Stearns Folder 4464, 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 C.K. Chien, November 8, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.K. Chien, November 8, 1921 Description An account of the resource Typed letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.K. Chien in response to his letter of the previous month. Stearns expresses delight in hearing from former students of Phillips Academy and is glad to hear about Chien's time at Davidson College. 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 November 8, 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 Relation A related resource November 8, 1921 Mr. C.K.Chien Davison College Davision, N.C. My dear Chien, Your interesting letter of October 9, just a month old, deserves a much earlier answer than this. It is always a source of real pleasure to hear from you boys after you leave the school and to know where you are and how you are progressing. I hope you will find Davison College all you could desire and that you will be able to secure there that sound intellectual training and high moral purpose which, when properly combined, produce a real and much needed leader. You boys who are going to return to China in the near future have tremendous responsibilities resting upon you and a rare privilege, too, in that your countrymen will justly expect you to set standards and assume leadership which will enable China to secure justice at the hands of all nations and maintain her proper position of dignity and honor among the world’s families. I envy you your chance, difficult as your problem is bound to prove. I am sure your many friends here would join in sending greetings and good wishes to you if they know that I was writing this letter. Arthur Sun is in Tech, as you probably know. Lou is at Amherst, Chang at Yale and the rest of the group still with us here in Andover. She, Lin and two youngest Sun boys are still at my house. With sincerest good wishes for the days ahead, believe me always Faithfully yours. C.K. Chien Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3a5ed7b28df71dd45fa1a0802332bf31.jpg f608f72358cda25bd799742c04713250 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 Stearns Folder 4464, 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 C.K. Chien, September 8, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.K. Chien, September 8, 1922 Description An account of the resource Typed letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.K. Chien thanking him for his recent correspondence and catching him up on the start of the school year at Andover. Wishes that they remain in further correspondence. 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 8, 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 Relation A related resource 8 September 1922 Mr. C.K. Chien, Camp Shenandoah Island Ford, Virgin My dear Chien: I am very grateful to you for your letter of August 10th. We have all, including the boys, just returned from the North Country and and are ready to tackle the work of a new year. I am going to show your letter to the boys and trust that some of them will write you of the fine times they have been having at their camp this summer. In the meantime accept my best wishes for the days ahead. Don’t forget your old friends in Andover whom I am sure do not forget you. Arthur Sun, as you probably know, is now at Boston Tech and Frank Lin hopes to enter this fall. Sheh and the two younger Sun boys are beginning this fall their second year in Phillips Academy. Ever sincerely yours, C.K. Chien Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/db465a8099f084eae2ce0b122511fd71.jpg eae11c280fa255a71d0d51cbad107988 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 Stearns Folder 4055, 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 C.L. Chow, August 9, 1924 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.L. Chow, August 9, 1924 Description An account of the resource Typed letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.L. Chow acknowledging the receipt of his recent letter and that he will be out of town during his planned visit to Andover. Wishes to know more of Chow's plans and whether or not he can possibly take a detour to visit him in New Hampshire. 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 August 9, 1924 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 Home Camp, Pittsburg, N.H. August 9, 1924 Mr. C.L.Chow New York City, My dear Mr. Chow, Your telegram and your letter which followed were both forwarded to me from my Andover office. Needless to say I was much excited when they were received and I learned that you were in this country and planning a visit to Andover and your old school. I left Andover the first of July for my summer vacation in this northern wilderness. It is a long journey, and I seldom find it possible to make the trip to Andover again until I pack up for good about the first of September and return for the new years work. I can’t bear to think of the possibility of missing you altogether, but as your letter did not tell me how long you are to be in this part of the world I am still hoping that our paths may be made to cross before you return to China. Indeed if you could see your way to make the long journey up into northern New Hampshire a warm and very friendly welcome would be awaiting you at Home Camp. Perhaps that is too much to hope, but I do most earnestly desire to see before the American visit ends. Please write me more fully about your plans and let me know if there is the slightest chance that you can get up here for a little visit. If that is out of the question I surely must see you in Andover in September if you are still in the country. You have been often in my thoughts during recent years. Either a year or two years ago someone sent me a newspaper clipping announcing your arrival in America and giving what purported to be the substance of an interview with you. It was then about a week before the annual base ball game with Exteter and I at once reserved a ticket to that historic game for you and sought in every way to locate you. I telegraphed to the legation in Washington and got into touch with numerous Chinese friends, but no one could give me the slightest information as to your whereabouts. Finally I can me to the conclusion that the whole newspaper story must have been a myth. Anyway I heard nothing more of you or your whereabouts until your recent message reached me. And my disappointments was very great. Do write me of your plans. If you can possibily see your way to run up here for a visit I shall be delighted and will send you promptly fully insrtuctions as how the trip may best be made. With warm personal regard and the old time good will, believe me, Very sincerely yours. Chow Shou Son Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/58806f7c20699055255912dbd87f88db.jpg 4493d95f19c93c27db8aaa4267f0b65f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d17a1193fd1187f885cf14f11c354bfa.jpg a5bd66090a4bca48f97d4b63176d84e2 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/df2b66c91770810e4e321ebb7a2d9aba.jpg b6d4adfa28213c3312a35e1c7fbf98ae 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 Stearns Folder 4055, 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 C.L. Chow, February 7, 1918 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.L. Chow, February 7, 1918 Description An account of the resource Typed letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.L. Chow expressing condolences over the death of a mutual friend, his sympathies on the youthful brashness of his son, his desire to revisit China at some point in the future, etc. 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 February 7, 1918 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 7 February, 1918 Mr. C.L.Chow 45 C Robinson Road Hong Kong My dear Mr. Chow: Your most interesting letter of December 15th has been duly received and read with the deepest interest. Needless to say we all share your sorrow in the loss of our good old friend Liang Chen Tung. I had heard that he had been ill; but I had not heard, nor had any of his American friends apparently until your letter brought the news, that death had finally claimed him. His many and good friends in Andover share the common sorrow and feel the void that his loss occasions. Personally I valued his friendship highly; and I shall never forget those delightful days I spent as his guest with him in the Chinese Legation at Washington a number of years ago. His visits to Andover too were always most welcome and we were invariably cheered and encountered by his generous expressions of loyalty and good will. What his loss must mean to you, his most close and intimate friend, I well know; and my sympathy thereafter goes out to you in fullest measure. I wish that you would express to his wife, if the opportunity offers, my deep sympathy with here in her bereavement. It is disappointing indeed to learn that Chang has not yet awakened to the seriousness of life and its responsibilities, or has heard and answered the clear call of duty and privilege. He is still young, as you say, and fortunately many a man has awakened before it is too late to the error and absolute foolishness of his ways, when only selfish interests and passing pleasures have been consulted, and by a frank admission of his faults and a definite determination to make good has won for himself before life closed an enviable place in the world’s affection and esteem. I hope and believe that this will yet be true of Chang; though it will always be a source of the deepest regret to me that during the time I had a chance to to exert an influence upon him I appear to have failed so completely to instil within him ideals of life and conduct. Please tell him, if you feel it wise to do so, that I still have confidence in him, chiefly because of his inheritance, and that I shall never be satisfied until I learn that he is making good in the finest sense of word. The days that I passed in China are still a most delightful memory to me; and I love to let my mind dwell upon it whenever the opportunity offers. I try to make myself believe, and often say, that if I live long enough I mean to repeat the experiment and enjoy once more the fascination of your ancient and Oriental land. I must’t wait too long I realize, for after all the greatest attraction lies in the warm welcome of old friends out there whose cordiality and kindness I can never forget, surpassing as it did my highest expectation. Especially am I indebted to you, and I shall never forget how you looked me up in Shanghai that time and took pains to make me realize that I was by no means, as I then believed myself to me, a stranger in a strange land. That act of kindness on your part did more than anything else to enhance the value and pleasure of my visit to China. What you say of your Chinese civilization echoes the feeling that I have long held. I have often said that I believed we gained more here by the presence of Chinese boys and what they did for our American students than they gained from us. The qualities of your civilization which have enabled it to endure through all these passing centuries are qualities which are sadly lacking in the average American youth. Reverence, respect, obedience to the law and the strength and importance of family and how ties in my judgement are the essentials which must lie at the basis, as they do in the case of China, of any civilization which is permanently to endure. Scientific inventions and material achievements have undoubtedly turned the heads of the West, and I sometimes think that the good Lord has sent the present calamity on the world to teach us a lasting lesson and bring us back to humility and reasonable sense. How I would welcome the chance to sit down with you and talk over to our hearts content some of the great questions and problems which these unusual days are forcing upon us. We must study and think and plan as we have never done before, and in a far humbler spirit too, if we are eventually to bring order out of the present chaos; and it is a problem that will concern every race as well as every nation, for that time has passed when individuals, or nations, or races can set themselves up in self-satisfied isolation. We must learn from one another; we must profit by one another’s mistakes; we must help one another when the opportunity offers; and we must work for one common goal, the real brotherhood of man and the uplifting of humanity everywhere. Again let me thank you for your fine letter. May I express the hope that I won’t have to wait quite so long this time before I hear from you again. I can’t tell how welcome your letters are and how much satisfaction, and pleasure they bring me. With my very kindest regards to your good self, to Chang. and to any other inquiring friends in your part of the world, believe me always Very sincerely yours, Chow Shou Son Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/069da4baf44e600ec18c6825b3843168.jpg 492be4321e668c3395e576f4e342e18a https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1c033a6e0b729ac229498fbe99d3a78b.jpg 55486499d7e6a8e24793e6606a17fe5d 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 Stearns Folder 5552, 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 C.S. Crosby, September 20, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.S. Crosby, September 20, 1923 Description An account of the resource Typed letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.S. Crosby, immigration inspector, inquiring, in response to the detention of Mr. Chan, how Chinese students studying in America are expected to meet all legal requirements and hold in possession all legal documents when their passports are often taken from them upon entering the country. Stearns wishes to take the matter up in Washington should it continue to occur. 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, 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 Relation A related resource September 20, 1923 Mr. C.S.Crosby Inspector of Immigration North Stratford, N.E. My dear Sir: Thank you for your very courteous letter of September 17. Please that I have no intention whatever of criticizing you personally for your actions in connection with the detention of Mr. Chan. As I endeavored to make clear, I believed at the time, and still believe that you were doing exactly what you felt it was year duty to do under the circumstances and this belief was prompted by the exceedingly courteous way in which you dealt with the boy and with me at the time. What I cannot understand is how there Chinese students in the country, who are here legitimately and have complied with all the requirements of the law, are expected to act when, as in the cases of a number of them at least, the passports have been taken from them by the immigration inspectors when they first landed. I have dealt with these boys now for many years and have had something like one hundred of them as my personal wards over a period of twenty-five years duration. For nearly twenty years some of those boys have been with me almost annually at my camp at Connecticut lake. They have traveled all over the country without interference up to this time. I cannot help wondering, therefore, just what is expected of them by the United States authorities or whether, granting that the passports had been taken heretofore in a legitimate way, they should be expected to furnish official credentials which they cannot necessarily possess. My purpose in taking the matter up at headquarters in Washington should not in any sense reflect on your action in the case. I am merely seeking information which I evidently did not possess and by which these boys may be spared further and embarrassing annoyances in the future. I think you will agree what this is a perfectly proper position for me to take. Thank you for returning Chan’s certificate which arrived safely. Very sincerely yours. C.S. Crosby Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Hin-Cheung Chan https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f74e294f6ac0c28ca465e4deb3bae7e1.jpg 1d6eac798ccbfcf1f10f134c3f93f6fc https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7d67812e08e21d170bf004420089cd60.jpg ad63d92c9802224a470ca3334dfe980f 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 C.Y. Sun, December 18, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, December 18, 1926 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun. Provides updates on the Sun children and Quincy Sheh. Includes current accounts. States he is worried about Tom and Mary. Believes Tom will have difficulty gaining admission to Wharton Business School next September. Explains Mary's current courses were based on her obtaining a diploma and returning to China. States in order to prepare her college would require a change in schools and/or additional coursework. Asks for clarification on Sun's intentions for Mary's education. 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 December 18, 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 December 15, 1925 C.Y.Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Sun: I am herewith a statement of the accounts of your children and Quicey She up to the first of the current December. You will not that Arthur is keeping well within the limits; Quicey She likewise; and Charles to an excellent degree, even though the first expenses in college are apt to be a bit exacting. Mary’s account runs a good deal ahead of what it used to be when she lived at the house, but that is natural since regular boarding school charges in these days are high, even in those schools like Abbot Academy which do not claim to be among the most expensive. Thomas, I think, is doing better, but it is stills somewhat difficult for him to accept the pinch of real restraint in his expenditures. As to the work of the various members of the group, I am frank to say that all of them at present seem to be working with excellent spirit. Probably the best record to date has been made by Quincy She at Bowdoin College. My only fear is that he may overwork, and I have cautioned him strongly on this point. I have also asked the new physical director at Bowdoin, an old Andover boy and a warm personal friend of mine, to take special interest in Quincy’s case and give him much good counsel and help as he can. Charles is making an excellent start at Amherst, though he is disposed to feel a bit discouraged about some of his work. That, I think, is only natural for a freshman facing the new surroundings of college life, and especially when that freshman happens to be a foreigner. Charles has proved in every way to so faithful and dependable that I am not at all worried about his future. The two cases that trouble me most just now are those of Thomas and Mary. I am writing this morning to the University of Pennsylvania to see if some credit for admission cannot be allowed Tommy the basis of his Chinese studies in the past. Otherwise I am afraid he will find a bit difficult to gain admission to the Wharton Business School, as he hopes to do next September. A business course seems just now to be probably the best thing for Tom to aim at and that which is most likely fit in with his individual abilities and needs. Mary furnishes the real problem just now. Following what I understood to be your personal wishes, Mary has been taking the general course at Abbot Academy, with the chief aim that of securing a degree and on the supposition that this would round out her education in America. During recent months I have been hearing muffled comments from Arthur and Mary, and I think, too, from her other brothers, to the effect that you had now decided that Mary was to go to college. Mary had hoped to study nursing or something of this kind a little later, though she had always intimated that she expected to teach when she got back to China. The college proposition, if it actually represents your views, throws the present machinery all out of joint, for the course which Mary is now taking does not admit to our American colleges and if colleges is to be the next goal, there must be an immediate and complete readjustment and very probably another year of preparation. Before attempting anything o radical as thing, I am very anxious to have your personal and definite authorization. Please write me fully and frankly just what you desire me to do under the circumstances, for I don’t feel justified in undertaking anything quite so radical without full authority from you. If I can discover from Arthur or Mary before receiving a reply to this letter sufficient evidence to assure me that this is really your last and definite purpose, I shall be tempted to make an immediate readjustment which can go into effect at the opening of the next term, some two weeks hence. This would involve a change of school and courses, a pretty radical step but seemingly necessary under the circumstances. I hope to see Arthur within the next few days and shall ask him to please at my disposal all the information he has received from you that bears upon the problem in this new and somewhat unexpected phase. I hope to have all the boys out here for a day or two of the Christmas holidays, in any case, and only wish that my house arrangements were such at present that I could take care of them for the entire holiday season. This, unfortunately, is impossible, though Mary, who returned from school yesterday, will make her headquarters with me until the new term begins early next month. Hoping to hear from you soon and with my heartiest greetings for the new year on which you will soon be entering, believe me with warm personal regards Very sincerely yours Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/388a1215a52590e9f39f10e5b5f4a71e.jpg 0b40c58ca74ab701e0303835f32059bb https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/19a7fb3a833967929330d4d83511a411.jpg cbcfdd195b920f6a849cc4c85de1aa28 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 1 Sun Siblings, 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 C.Y.Sun, July 12, 1933 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y.Sun, July 12, 1933 Relation A related resource Archmeadow Danvers,Mass. July 12, 1933. Mr. C. Y. Sun, Tientsin, North China. My dear Mr. Sun, Your very kind letter of June 4th. reached me several days ago and was most welcome. Letters from my Chinese friends are always a source of real pleasure to me; and none are more so than yours. Naturally to one who is so keenly interested in Chine as I am and who claims so many good friends there as I do the big things that have been happening in your country during recent months have a special appeal. It is all very bewildering to one so far removed from the scene of action and the results cannot be easily or properly appraised. One thing is clear, however, and that is that the sympathies of the American people as a whole have gone out without reserve to the Chinese and that Japan has lost immeasurably such confidence ad good will as she may have enjoyed in the past. Her prestige has been badly undermined. Just now when the efforts of all high minded men throughout the world have been directed towards the high goal of smoothing out international difficulties, breaking down international barriers, removing causes of International suspicions and distrust, and creating confidence and good will, it is distressing to find that any one nation is willing to undermine it all in pursuit of its own selfish ends. That at least is the way the thing looks to those of us who have to view things as they appear and who may perhaps be limited in their understanding of what is back of it all. How I should love to sit down with someone like you and get the first hand information that I lack. My interest in your children has not lessened an iota since they have returned to their home land. Indeed it appears to increase with the passing of the months. Any word from or of them will always have a hearty welcome. Sometimes I wonder whether they have received the letters and messages that both Miss Clemons and I have sent them from time to time. Our sympathy has gone out whole-heartedly to Mary in her affliction. Eary indeed has she been called upon to face the hard things of life. And what about Arthur, Charlie, and Tom? I shall always feel that these fine children of yours with whom it has been my privilege to share my home have a very special claim on my affection and good will. My prayers and good wishes will always follow them. And may their life and achievements bring only satisfaction and happiness to you. It is no easy task to get adjusted to my new way of living. My health, I am glad to report, seems to be getting better steadily and I now feel very much like my old self, though I cannot carry too much of a load without realizing my limitations. But I have always in the past enjoyed such good health and have so relished active and hard work that the change comes a bit hard. For the past few months I have been taking life very easily out here in the country enjoying limited exercise about the place in my garden and orchard. If conditions in China ever change to such an extent as to prompt again your countrymen to wish to send their boys and girls to America I should welcome the opportunity to be of help to them as I have tried to be in the past. My country home is only a dozen miles from Andover; the house is large and the grounds extensive; local public schools are good; and altogether I think I could supply attractive and helpful surroundings and conditions for those who,like your own children when they came to us, would require a year or two of home life and special training before going on to the higher schools like Phillips Academy. This probably is only a dream of mine; but you see that I miss the old contacts and that 1 should welcome the chance to be of some real service in the world during the years that are still left to me. I think I wrote you how thoroughly I appreciated and enjoyed the tea you sent me some time ago, and which, if my memory serves me, came while I was abroad last winter. If I did not I must apologize and explain my negligence as me to the generally upset and unstable condition in which I existed for some months after coming from the hospital. Lately I feel as if things were on an even keel again, and I hope to be able to be more business-like in the future. My new home offers me splendid opportunities to use to the best advantage the many beautiful things that my Chinese friends have given me in the past. I wish you could see them as they now adorn the walls and tables in my library and lining rooms especially. They 'furnish me constant and happy reminders of good friends who may be far away in actual distance but who are constantly in my thoughts and whose friendship is one of the best things that my life and work at Andover have brought me. Please remember me most warmly to all of the children and tell them how happy I should be to hear from them now and then. And believe me, with kindest regards to you personally and every best wish to all the Suns, Yours most sincerely. 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, 1933 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/a35c1e3ce57fa17ae13231e0a23ac3e3.jpg 14ce99088ed579112578e9fc96cd157c 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 Stearns Folder 4464, 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 Chang K. Chien, December 12, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Chang K. Chien, December 12, 1922 Description An account of the resource Typed letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Chang K. Chien inviting him, if available, to come to Andover for the Christmas celebrations, where he can meetup with the Chinese students studying at Phillips Academy and meet up with old acquaintances. 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 December 12, 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 Relation A related resource December 12, 1922 Mr. Chang K. Chien 80 Eagle Street, Troy, Kew York. My dear Chien: Many thanks for your most interesting letter. I am glad the world is using you so well and prospects ahead seem so bright. If you are up in this section during the holidays do drop in on us for the annual Christmas celebration. We expect to have with us at that time whatever Chinese and other boys are stranded in Andover, and there will be a few of the former in any case, and among them some of your old friends. Wishing you all the best that life has to give for the days ahead, believe me. Sincerely yours C.K. Chien Dr. Alfred E. Stearns