218 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a755090d83f020bda7e25fc1bdbddb78.jpg dd0f9d86cfa108d70d0beff1f4fa41f8 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 3 Alfred And Helen 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 P.K. [Alfred] Tsai to Alfred E. Stearns, October 2, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from P.K. [Alfred] Tsai to Alfred E. Stearns, October 2, 1928 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 October 2, 1928 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 Alfred Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c877595b1ae45c5752df40a839b77553.jpg 7e4243f3abaa05c6933d050fcf155908 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/127593971a9d63775fc82c412258151e.jpg 3186c3726d9428b0ba6f5c92f7369664 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 3 Alfred And Helen 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 Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 30, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 30, 1928 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Helen 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 September 30, 1928 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Helen Tsai https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b5936ac0c45a0d5e9ed012241b0ce833.jpg 462ae203dbbab95b648dc0f3b2a4ac10 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8f0f4f0d7d0a008121a5dfd3c99860ee.jpg bd92ba6483daccf42fc03988270f40ac 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 3 Alfred And Helen 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 Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 23, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 23, 1928 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Helen 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 September 23, 1928 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Helen Tsai https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/284d0d3decceac47b2a2725a373145b4.jpg ab91f15b71e85252d648827bd5098dd9 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 3 Alfred And Helen 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 Telegram from Sister Mary Antony, Peekskill, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 15, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Sister Mary Antony, Peekskill, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 15, 1928 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sister Mary Antony 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 15, 1928 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Antony https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9f776f18de2af2782a83105581a97661.jpg 52721f65ebfdba5898277d9e6fce7705 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/134ca475a89c0c28ae8f7d49911c7e06.jpg 49432706a348b0f43dfdfc67e93e8f2d 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 3 Alfred And Helen 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 Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 19, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 19, 1928 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Helen 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 September 19, 1928 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Helen Tsai https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ee31675cf555ee9d89496b47d4ed2163.jpg 07c0a7d7ea7319d4f4ce11e650818c0c 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 3 Alfred And Helen 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 Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, September 20, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, September 20, 1928 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 20, 1928 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 Dear Helen: Your note reached me this morning, and I am glad to know that the new school and surroundings have already proved so attractive to you. I feel confident from what I hear from the most responsible persons on all sides that we could not have found a better school for you than Saint Mary's. I hope and believe that you will have a most successful and happy year there. I received yesterday a telegram from your Sister Superior, asking if your trunk had been sent. To my surprise, I discovered that the janitor here at George Washington Hall was still holding it, and as he supposes under instructions from Mrs. Reilly, who had told him that she would let him know just when and how you wished it sent. He called up the express office at once and started the trunk on its way to Peekskill within an hour after the telegram was received. I hope that you will have received it long before this letter reached you, and that you have not been seriously inconvenienced by the delay. I have also authorized Sister Mary Antony to purchase for you whatever she deems necessary in the way of school uniform, etc. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Helen Tsai https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0fd031a31fca166d1f9358a7a9d0d164.jpg 4a98fe1f6c6140213d4f2a835cde8934 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/aa8b8c862306e91e574ffee10f562ba1.jpg 0cae2d5dc39f0931b1eeae9c3f7157ac 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 3 Alfred And Helen 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 Alfred E. Stearns to Sister Mary Antony, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, September 19, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sister Mary Antony, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, September 19, 1928 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 19, 1928 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 My dear Miss Antony: On my return to Andover, I have been shown your letter of September 10 to Miss Jones, written at the suggestion in my earlier letter to you. Please accept my thanks for the prompt and efficient way in which you have cooperated with me in handling Miss Helen Tsai's case, and please accept, too, my thanks for your readiness to accept the girl at this early season. I found on my return that Miss Jones had arranged to have someone accompany Helen to Peekskill, and while the selection made was perhaps not in every sense ideal, the available candidates for the position being naturally few, but the wife of one of our employees was finally pressed into service, and I infer from her report that she at least succeeded in placing Helen safely in your case. I was not able, however, to explain to her in the way I would have liked to do in order that she might discuss with you frankly Helen's problems and needs. Very probably these will reveal themselves direct to you in time and can be handled properly by you without much suggestion or interference on my part. In general I think you will find Helen exceptionally amenable to the school's regulations and influence. She needs to be taught something of the refinements of life, for while her instincts are all of the best, I find that she has comparatively little idea of the ordinary proprieties, and is inclined to be a bit too free and easy with everyone, especially on comparatively short acquaintances. Perhaps I should not call this a real weakness. I think it is rather pure ignorance, and I am confident that a word of advice now and then along these lines will be helpful and accepted in the best of spirit. She told me when she arrived from China that she had received the nickname of "tom-boy" on the boat coming over, and was quite amused at the fact. I warned her that this seemed in itself to indicate a little lack of control and restraint on her part but I am afraid that my suggestions were not fully appreciated. These characteristics, however, are in my judgment wholly superficial, and I know that they can and will be properly dealt with at St. Mary's. In my experience with many Chinese wards, I have come to feel strongly that it is not wise to press them too early or too strongly with matters and problems relating to religion. Helen, like a number of others of her countrymen whom I have had in my care, comes from a progressive family. Her father is distinctly a scholar who spent many years in his early life studying in this country, but who, I judge, like most of his friends, still lives the Chinese life and follows the Chinese ways. That he probably wishes something better for his children, I have no doubt, though whether he will be willing when the time came to make the sacrifice necessary to bring this about is the real question. It is my guess that he would like to see his children become professing Christians, though he would perhaps not be willing to say as much as this. A friend of his, Mr. C.Y. Sun, one of the most progressive men in China today, who has had four children under my charge, three of them still in this country, wrote to me frankly that he would be glad if his children would of their own accord decide to join the church. The three boys have done so since, and with very little, if any, direct pressure exerted on them to this end. From my experience with the Chinese nature, I am pretty sure that pressure tends to breed an undercurrent of opposition, cleverly concealed on the outside, but strong and very much alive. Where response to such pressure is apparent, it is pretty apt to prove superficial in the end. All of these things I should like very much to talk over with you in person, and perhaps the opportunity may yet appear. I am just thinking aloud a bit at the moment in the hope that these thoughts may prove of some help to you in your dealing with this interesting and promising representative of the Orient. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Antony https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b4379d79c98a3034dcb3573bdb03c5b8.jpg b9756b439eb7ca7cc12bfeffc29feed8 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/73e1507334bd203c9026938d9c4b5707.jpg 90d5bce69c55c9cc4dff8f52720a8a41 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 3 Alfred And Helen 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 Sister Mary Antony, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, to Miss Mabel Jones, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., September 10, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Sister Mary Antony, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, to Miss Mabel Jones, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., September 10, 1928 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sister Mary Antony 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 10, 1928 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 10, 1928 Miss Mabel Jones Phillips Academy Andover, Massachusetts My dear Miss Jones: I am in receipt this morning of a letter from Dr. Stearns in regard to Miss Helen Tsai and particularly in regard to her care until the opening of our fall term. It would be quite convenient to have her come to us at once. There will be three other girls who will have come early before Miss Tsai arrives. One of our Sisters is spending a few days in South Duxbury, Massachusetts, with the Sisters of Saint Margaret, and will return on Wednesday. You could get in touch with her and make an arrangement by which Helen would be properly chaperoned to Peekskill. I am writing,too, to Sister Columba, asking if she hears from you to co-operate in every way in the care of the child. I do not know whether Sister Columba has arranged to come by the Wednesday night boat or by train. It will be no inconvenience whatever to have Helen come early. In fact I shall be glad to have the opportunity of becoming a little acquainted with her before the rush of the school year begins. Dr. Stearns has also spoken about the matter of her dress. I should think, from what he says of the girl and her attitude last year, that she would be happier if she wore the regular school uniform. That is not a matter of great expense. It seems almost a pity, however, to put aside the very attractive Oriental dress and perhaps from time to time she might be able to make use of a part of her Chinese wardrobe. Would you not think it advisable that I talk with her after she comes and then write you? I am looking forward to having Helen in the School and I hope it will be possible to make her happy and to feel that she has gained something from her school year. Very sincerely, Sister Superior, C.S.M. [Handwriting followed below] Mary Antony secretary to Dr. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/64493e5c86a65a462c8d3b6f1efbf331.jpg d1f96b8a84e9173f72c87c1069dfed06 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 3 Alfred And Helen 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 Mabel L. Jones, Andover, to Alfred E. Stearns (regarding Helen Tsai's clothing for school) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mabel L. Jones, Andover, to Alfred E. Stearns (regarding Helen Tsai's clothing for school) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mabel L. Jones, secretary to Dr.Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Helen Tsai secretary to Dr. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3312e451e0aba5c63282d1512fa32dad.jpg d1cf63d94a74067683cb6d0f9228180c 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 3 Alfred And Helen 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 George K. Sanborn, Cockermouth Camp Director, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 6, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from George K. Sanborn, Cockermouth Camp Director, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 6, 1928 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George K. Sanborn 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 6, 1928 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 Dear Dr. Stearns: I am pleased to report that I believe Alfred showed a marked improvement in his general attitude throughout the summer. At first he showed an imperious attitude and seemed to expect things to be done just about his way. It was a manner that tended to make him very unpopular with the other boys, and we paid special attention to trying to make him see that he was not better than the others and that he would receive no special favors of such a type as his money has unfortunately seemed to give him previously. As a result his whole method of going at things changed, and I think that he not only enjoyed camp more because of having more friends, but also that he left with the reputation of being a good fellow. I hope that he does not slip back into his former attitude because, from other boys, I have heard that it made him unpopular at the Stearns School, and I know that it would not gain him any friends at Andover. Mr. Mills gave Alfred ten hours tutoring, nearly all in English. I hope it helps. Mr. Mills seemed to think that his main trouble was an inability to understand questions, but that, once they were clear to him, he had little trouble. Sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns George K. Sanborn