207 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/003c7719b085796e78eda28d65c5d8ec.jpg bf979b53f9d8056f354e8dbefb4ad39c 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, October 13, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, October 13, 1921 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 October 13, 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 October 18, 1921 Mr.Tsai Shou Kie 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Tsai: You will be perhaps a bit surprised and a good bit interested, I am sure, to learn that Kuo Feng has just passed through the ordeal of an operation for appendicitis. The operation appears, I am glad to say, to have been wholly successful and the condition of the appendix removed was found to be such as to indicate clearly that the boy would doubles have faced serious complications from it in the near future if the matter had not been taken in hand at this time. Dr.Balch, the specialist who performed the operation, is one of the leading surgeons in Boston, and indeed in this country, and the one upon whom we regularly call I emergencies of this kind. The youngster has not been feeling quite himself for a number of weeks; indeed once or twice last year he had several semi-attacks which undermined his strength and robbed him of some of usual vitality. It seems clear now that all of those troubles were undoubtedly the result of the troublesome appendix which has now been removed. I am sure that the boy will find himself in far better condition from now on than he was before the operation was performed. Of course just at present he is suffering with natural after-effects of an operation of this kid and for a day or two yet will doubtless be a bit uncomfortable. I have just come from the infirmary and find that he is feeling much more comfortable and happy this morning than was the case yesterday. The operation itself was performed two days ago. I shall, of course, advise you promptly if anything unfavorable in the situation should develop, though the doctor feels confident that there is no ground for apprehension on this score. I trust that you will approve of all that has been done. We have acted as we would have done in the case of any one of our boys similarly afflicted and in your absence the formal authority for the operation was granted by me. I received a letter from Dr. Ferguson yesterday who tells me that there is some slight chance that I may have the privilege of seeing in this country again in the not distant future our mutual friend, Mr. L.T.Liang. Why can’t you join him, if the trip is decided upon? In view of the family connection, it does seem as if you were entitled to another glimpse of America with the consequent opportunity to renew old friendships and establish new ones. I can assure you that a hearty welcome will await you. Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/18a45a5ea016c993fb9bf0200ceb98d0.jpg 50ec8a99dd3dc9bf7edaa4b6a33bac18 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, September 28, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, September 28, 1921 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 September 28, 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 September 28, 1921 Mr. Tsai Shou Kie 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Tsai: Let me acknowledge the receipt of and thank you for your most interesting letter of August 31 and the accompanying draft for $1600 which I am depositing, as requested, to the credit of your boy Kuo Fang. The youngster appears to be getting on very well, though he has not made the high record in scholarship that we could all like to see. In this respect, however, he has done somewhat better of late and his record at the tutoring camp this summer was exceptionally good. I am hoping that the Andover record this year will be the best of his course to date. In every other way, the boy is open to little criticism, though I cannot help feeling that his general good nature and the popularity which this brings to him with his mates must be held in check a bit if they are not to exhort a bad influence on the boy’s character as a whole. In my relations with him, he his all that could be desired, for he never hesitates to accept my criticisms with good spirit and to do his best apparently to carry out such suggestions with good spirit as I have made to him from time to time. I earnestly hope that when he returns to China later he will be in every way qualified to meet and help solve effectively the big problems that your country confronts at this time. It is certainly a real pleasure to have had a part in preparing these boys for the great opportunities which lie ahead of them in their homeland. Yes, the photograph reached me safely, only a few days ago however, and I have not had the chance until today to thank you for it. It reposes in my study and I shall always value it highly, chiefly for its constant suggestion of your friendship and your confidence in me as well as the memories it prompts of personal kindness to me when I met you in China a few years ago. I am sorry to hear that you are still troubled with hard times in China in the way of floods and political disturbances. It seems as if the whole world had been compelled to face more than its proper allowance of hardship and disaster during recent years. The saddest part of it is that most of these troubles were man’s own making, though, of course, this cannot be said of famine and flood in China. I only hope that better times are ahead for us all. Please remember me next warmly to the other members of your family and accept for yourself this expression of friendship and goodwill. I wish that I might be privileged to meet you again some day either in your country or in my own. Sincerely and gratefully yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1436db38bfa42d38e75815b9de641783.jpg 0e140b104abec54586c78e4a8499b949 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 Edwin V. Spooner, Long Lake Lodge, North Bridgton, Maine, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 11, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Edwin V. Spooner, Long Lake Lodge, North Bridgton, Maine, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 11, 1921 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edwin V. Spooner 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 11, 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 August 11, 1921 My dear Dr. Stearns:— Enclosed please find bill for the "balance of Tsai’s tuition together with the incidental expenses I find charged to his account . We find that the boy has improved greatly during the past year. Ho is taking his work more seriously and is doing a better job than he did a year ago. You will be interested to know that last week he was on the camp Honor Roll. I trust that you are having a fine summer. Very truly yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Edwin V. Spooner https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e3fea06ca6d8d66794c6bffd8e0860b0.jpg 80f24a69543c2ca15ad0c9a0ae705e1e 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, August 28, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from K.F. Tsai to Alfred E. Stearns, August 28, 1921 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 August 28, 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 Charlie Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/65cab79a70811fd44a9644edadaf5899.jpg c12ba78596044a65bf0db11c4c26c7b1 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9380c1097958b06fb60cd1c1fd5ea488.jpg f485d5693b2dd31bdceb59fbfdba4893 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 Dr. A. E. Stearns, August 31, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Dr. A. E. Stearns, August 31, 1921 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 August 31, 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 5 Race Course Road Tientsin,China August 31, 1921. Dr. A.E.Stearns Phillips Academy Andover, Mass.U.S.A. Dear Dr. Stearns, I enclose draft for $1600.00 U.S.Currency for the expenses of my son Kuo Fang. Please acknowledge receipt of this in your next letter. I hope Kuo Fang is getting along all right and not giving you too much trouble. From what I hear, he is progressing nicely,thanks no doubt to your kind supervision. His letters indicate that he is quite happy and enjoying himself. He writes of his visiting Mr. Wickham of Hartford, my old schoolmate, and of their going to a circus' together and so forth. I am glad to notice the great improvement in his English. He also writes of playing football and other games, and I therefore rest assured that you are making a regular man out of him. By the way, I sent you a photograph through Mr.Wickham some time ago. I wonder if you have received it yet. Mr. Wickham was in China a few months ago, so you might find it interesting to talk with him about present conditions in China if you should happen to run across him. Right in the wake of the great famine came heavy rainfall and floods. We are now seriously afflicted with floods in several sections of the country. Some portions of our railroads have to suspend traffic on this account. We also have with us resumed fighting in Hupeh, Hunan and Kwangsi, and we do not know what the outcome will be. But we are looking forward with great expectations to the coming Pacific Conference in your country, and we hope that we with the help of your people we shall ultimately procure rights and justice in our international affairs. Wishing you a most successful school year, and thanking you for all that you are doing for my son, I remain, Yours sincerely, Tsai Shou Kie Yours sincerely, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/dc96b099f8205bffe066890d0e45e0f0.jpg 959f11d0896b732e27a5da7818acedd4 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/24cf1b2d6eb156f59e31016ff16e67d9.jpg c875b12594705e6bd0eeae62232e24f8 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 Charlie Tsai, Long Lake Lodge, North Bridgton, Maine, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 23, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Charlie Tsai, Long Lake Lodge, North Bridgton, Maine, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 23, 1921 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource 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 July 23, 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 Charlie Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a69dfb36bc42c52b80c6872a63e45b43.jpg 9a89dd98453442b5e659e12f14d30b31 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 Edwin V. Spooner, Long Lake Lodge, North Bridgton, Maine, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 20, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Edwin V. Spooner, Long Lake Lodge, North Bridgton, Maine, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 20, 1921 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edwin V. Spooner 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 20, 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 July 20, 1921. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, Andover, Mass. My dear Dr. Stearns: I am sending you herewith the bill for the balance of Tsai's tuition for the first half term. I am pleased to inform you that the boy is getting a good start in the work of the summer. I trust that you are having a pleasant season at Magalloway. Very truly yours, Edwin V. Spooner Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Edwin V. Spooner https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9f3fbe6c8a83505a1a8d94cc957aa075.jpg 31de3f1e2ec8986d1d96cba95ac006a4 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d7aff9033cf5b35b94863ec958c1538e.jpg 237c682707a0725f3b2dfe74e6379497 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, June 30, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from K.F. Tsai, Hartford, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, June 30, 1921 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 June 30, 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 Charlie Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/fce71f4d087b4c04515f418d7eb5bf94.jpg 10d569fdd7ed8d9064d7652a34e199ac https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/967e9ec3cfa174008ffac986f4077e68.jpg 89280ab332d4367832209a27c597016f 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 Kuo Fong Tsai to Alfred E. Stearns, June 29, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Kuo Fong Tsai to Alfred E. Stearns, June 29, 1921 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kuo Fong 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 June 29, 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 Charlie Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2b4a963e486e314a5e28e9c616b482df.jpg 3f81388f7808357b9053bf08e6205774 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, February 10, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, February 10, 1921 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 10, 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 February 10, 1921 Mr. Tsai Shou Kie 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Tsai: Let me thank you for your very generous letter of January 10. You have given me quite a contract, but I will do what I can, though frankly admitting my limitation, to see that Kuo-fang keeps his head within proper bounds. I do not believe that the boy is in serious danger of losing his balance, though undue popularity is always a dangerous thing for any fellow of that age. I have always found the youngster exceedingly responsive to suggestion and advice, and I have no reason to believe that he will not continue to maintain this friendly attitude towards me and such suggestions as I may feel called upon to give him from time to time. I feel more than ever in touch with China this year, as I have under my own roof five Chinese boys and one girl. Three of these youngsters, including the girl, are full members of my regular family circle, but the other three boys are merely rooming in the house and attending the school, but naturally I see a good bit of then all. It is a most interesting and delightful experience, for it would be difficult to find anywhere more agreeable or responsive members for my household. Very likely you know the parents of some of these youngsters. Those in my immediate family are the sons and daughter of Mr.Sun Chung Yin of Tientsin. Mr. She also comes from Tientsin, and Mr.Kung’s home is in Shanghai. Please remember me to Kuo Tsao and Kuo Pao, both of whom I still remember with the friendliest feelings, and believe me with personal regards Very sincerely yours, Principal Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie