164 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8c6a9bdfb628a6bec98ffe8e7e2e4dc1.jpg 9e7ea87717ccb5a1da8a120798b3b866 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/961d0dcae5c2a39406f439ffa28eaabc.jpg 153a8181278e25c29b69cef32794db03 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bdf6d0888ff4019c845a1c9f63498239.jpg 747dddb82e238bd82e2f30ed346048ff 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, March 27, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, March 27, 1923 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 March 27, 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 March 27, 1923 Mr. S. K. Tsai 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Tsai: Some time has passed since I last wrote you, and I am writing now to bring the report up to date. Kuo Fong, himself, has doubtless told you the readjustments which have recently been made in his life and work here. As I told you in the last letter, it seemed clear to all of us that the boy was not making sufficient progress in his work at Phillips Academy to justify a continuance of the school connection. Under the circumstances, therefore, the faculty decided that he could give up the Andover connection and advised a smaller school up to such a time as you should either approve of the arrangement or decide on something entirely different. On this basis I arranged for the boy to go to Mont Vernon which was his own choice and where he felt that ho would be able to accomplish most because of familiarity with the conditions there and the friendships already formed. He is at work there at present and writes me so that he has some hope of being able to enter Amherst or one of the smaller colleges this fall. This ambition ought to prove a stimulus to him, and I have, therefore, encouraged him to make his goal. I have never been able to determine satisfactorily whether the boy’s inability to get better results was due to poor health, lack of interest, or limited mental capacity. Outside of his books he has never shown any lack of mental ability; so that I have always felt that the real difficulty lay somewhere else. In order to be perfectly fair to the boy I finally decided that it was wise to have him very carefully examined competent medical experts, and this was done. Dr.Pratt, the diagnostician to whom I sent him, is a personal friend of nine and probably the leading man in his line certainly in Boston, if not in the country. The exhaustive report which he made to me, including his own letter. I an enclosing herewith. While not versed in medical language itself, it seems to me clear that the trouble is largely nervous and, to a considerable extent at least, capable of control by the boy himself. This I have endeavored to the best of my ability to impress on Kuo Fong, and he has promised me to work hard to force himself to believe that he is physically stronger than he has been inclined to think in the pact. I think that he is a good bit relieved himself to find that the examination had disclosed no physical conditions to justify anxiety. If this is so, he will have made a long step towards control and an attitude of mind which should help distinctly in general physical improvement. On this basis his scholarship, too. should gain. You have asked me not to bother to send you detailed statements of the boy’s accounts, but as I have them all in the cash book I have used for the various boys in my charge, I shall be glad to submit them at any time you desire; indeed I should feel a bit more comfortable myself to do so. Just at present the account has been overdrawn by $393.30. I believe that the boy himself has informed you of the situation; so that I am not worrying at all about it. His tuition has been paid at the new school until the close of the year, and of course he has not been charged for the final payment here. I have also allowed him $50 for spring vacation expenses. Please remember me most warmly to the boys and any other of my old friends who may still happen to be with you or in your general vicinity. I have been following as best I could through the incomplete reports that come to us in our American papers developments in China in recent months. What a wonderful thing it will be for China and the world when a stable and absolutely honest and responsible government is once established. Believe me with kindest personal regards Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ef5652de2fafca7570712c04c0e47a27.jpg 564534efb4898fbbdb36d3fe71693a0a 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 5037, 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 K.F. Tsai, The Stearns School, Mont Vernon, N.H. March 28, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, The Stearns School, Mont Vernon, N.H. March 28, 1923 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 March 28, 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 March 26, 1923. Mr. K. F. Tsai The Stearns School, Mt. Vernon, N. H. My dear Tsai: Evidently I left the enclosed bill out of the last envelope sent you. Please O.K. and return if it is all right. I believe I also mailed you the report of your medical examination in Boston. If so, kindly send it back to me, for I have promised it to your father and I do not feel justified in bothering Dr. Pratt to make out a duplicate copy. I have written your father fully about it and told him that I felt that now that you knew for a certainty that you had no real physical weakness to worry about, I had every reason to believe that you would be able to take hold of your work with better courage from now on, and that the relief to your mind would find itself expressed in a generally better physical condition. That’s my hope and belief. I trust you will realize than both. Faithfully yours, Charlie Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/71dc616f5dc0a41337aaf36bbe8e992e.jpg e8b4665dd55c575bde66957b72d2f065 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 5037, 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 K.F. Tsai, West Swanzey, N.H., to Alfred E. Stearns, March 30, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from K.F. Tsai, West Swanzey, N.H., to Alfred E. Stearns, March 30, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource K.F. Tsai (Charlie Tsai) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 30, 1923 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Charlie Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/676c55a6893f059490f916d7f9aeb90f.jpg b6a21f88b4ff5f6dc8ec54c8d9f289c6 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 5037, 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 K.F. Tsai, Hartford, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, April 4, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from K.F. Tsai, Hartford, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, April 4, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource K.F. Tsai (Charlie Tsai) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 4, 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 Charlie Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c6a98d1cbd65adac0198538abb042c6b.jpg e863ad578ffd157f90f2a5cbcd4fb14f 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 5037, 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 K.F. Tsai, Hartford, Conn. April 5, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, Hartford, Conn. April 5, 1923 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 April 5, 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 Mr. K. F. Tsai The Pines Hartford, Conn. My dear Tsai: Thank you for your two notes, received during the vacation and advising me of your whereabouts. Evidently they are a bit generous with their vacations up at Mont Vernon. I have heard nothing from your father since I last saw you. A letter which I dictated to him several days ago I am holding until I can see you, for I want to send him the doctor’s report, which I feel he ought to have, and which I know will cause him a good deal of relief. If you happen to have it with you, please send it on to me. I imagine, though, that you may have left it at Mont Vernon. If you can drop off here on your way back from Hartford, I shall be glad to see you. Faithfully yours, Charlie Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/360fc959df7ff44937a5f3d7e35f3bae.jpg 10f811c424e5bfc2b752a71ff4b92130 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, April 17, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, April 17, 1923 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 April 17, 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 April 17, 1922 Mr. Tsai, Shou Kie 35 Race Course Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Tsai: Thank you for you nice letter of March 22. The letter which I have more recently mailed you will have arrived no doubt before this, and hence it will not be necessary for me to repeat what I have already said in that communication. Kuo Fang at present is studying at the Steams School at Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. He is evidently working with good spirit and in the hope of gaining admission to one of our good but smaller England colleges this coming fall. Amherst, I believe, is his present objective. The goal is a worthy one and the plan has my full approval, whether or no you finally decide to permit him to pursue the college course in America. I hope you will approve. Again my sincere and kindest regards to yourself and the various members of your family circle. Faithfully yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/52cdd3b0a32bb76b7cb4250bab3ebc70.jpg eaa85bcf44c3478823eeb9962696411f 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, March 22, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, March 22, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tsai Shou Kie Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 22, 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 35 Racecourse Road Tientsin,China,March 22, 1923 Dear Dr. Stearns: I have for acknowledgment your letter informing me of the decision of the faculty in having Kuo Fang to withdraw from school owing to his poor scholarship records. I and his brothers were very sorry to hear of his failure to measure up to the Andover standards, and hope you will forgive us in having in the first place thrust upon your guardianship such a ward, who has been such a disappointment. Please rest assured that we appreciate, as only those who have come under your influence and tutelage can appreciate, the deep interest which you and the Faculty have manifested towards the boy. As I understand from Mr. Wickham of Hartford, the boy has already gone to Keene, N.H. , presumably to the Stearns’ School, where he was last year after the operation. If he is there and under your brother’s care and supervision, he will be very well looked after. I have already written very strongly urging him to make good and to show himself worthy of further expectations from his teachers and friends, who have taken so much interest in him in the past. I fully realize that his foundation, in subjects other than Chinese, is very sandy and poor, but in spite of such habdicaps I have discerned decidedly wonderful improvement in his English, for which I have to thank you and your colleague of the Academy. I have decided to give him another chance, and hope you will be able to find a smaller school for him. The Stearns’ School in New Hampshire will probably be the best place for him now until the end of the school year. In sending him to the States, I never entertained the thought of his ever taking a full collegiate course on account of his poor foundation. All that was expected of him was to acquire sufficient secondary education in order to enable him to take up business training, either experience to be acquired by working or by attending some business school. In spite of your disappointment of the boy, I hope you will continue to take an interest in moulding his future career, as you have done for Kuo-tsao and Kuo-pao. I hope you will agree with me that the best course for him to follow between now and the end of the school year is to remain in the Stearns’ School. As for next year, I shall await your advice before anything else is done. Kuo-tsao and Kuo-pao join me in sending their kindest regards and best wishes to. you. Very sincerely yours Tsai Shou Kie Dr.A.E.Stearns, Principal, Phillips Academy, Andover,Mass. U.S.A. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8e629a4f9e9faa4c46e0ddda356985d9.jpg d52fa894847709083101813a86416c02 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/accd2ffef564609513e0b17a1072514a.jpg 51425952c0d0b8b414188c41724b1435 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 5037, 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 Clarence Horace Wickham, Hartford, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, April 24, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Clarence Horace Wickham, Hartford, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, April 24, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clarence Horace Wickham 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 24, 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 Clarence Horace Wickham Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/df0124de51421c6f71567beb6a6fc32e.jpg 8e75ca05763891989c1e2eeed494ce9b 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 5037, 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 Clarence H. Wickham, Hartford, Conn. April 26, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Clarence H. Wickham, Hartford, Conn. April 26, 1923 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 April 26, 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 April 26, 1923 Hartford, Connecticut My dear Mr. Wickham: I have your letter of recent date and shall be delighted to meet you at a time mutually agreeable, and for the purpose of discussing Charlie Tsai’s situation. The two older boys, as you know, were pretty much in my charge when they were here in school a member of years go. The oldest one and his father went out of their way when I was in China in 1912 to extend all sorts of friendly courtesies to me. I shall always be their debtor for this , and my interest in this latest representative of the family is intensely keen. He has been something of a puzzle to me, however, and I have been very anxious about him at times. Just now he seems to be taking hold with good spirit in my brother’s small home school up in New Hampshire; but the distractions of the life in a big school like ours seem to have been a bit too much for him. Anyway, I shall be only too glad to discuss the whole problem with you. I am more sorry than I can tell you that I missed you when you last called. It is too bad that I did not know of your plan in advance. Charlie himself evidently failed to bring me the message reported by you, else you would have heard from me before this. I expect to be in Andover almost constantly from now until the end of the school year, barring a few trips close at hand, almost none of which will take me away for a whole day; consequently I think I can arrange to meet you at almost any time that would prove most convenient for you. Just notify me a day or two in advance if you can, either by letter or telephone. Very sincerely yours Clarence Horace Wickham Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bd04dd916ba6a1acadac0b35153f1742.jpg 4707f7c3f9b00d250c363f431379fd74 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 5037, 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 K.F. Tsai to Alfred E. Stearns, April 22, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from K.F. Tsai to Alfred E. Stearns, April 22, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource K.F. Tsai (Charlie Tsai) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 22, 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 Charlie Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns