273 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4f0403fd6ab82d4a397dd8f7aa3a43cb.jpg ae9ee114fe7b22a5c5faaebef1db00a6 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/99a9a29b3e6cc50415a72635362d5beb.jpg ed60ed642cb880c47215d8c9540911c0 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/20082be884c2ebf9205388acbd423cb8.jpg eae3395f15e8f61b2fee893657bf981e https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4de4fdcd05e890f6038a2e0e2f5d47d8.jpg 294c334671eca6af727f75735120e302 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 29 Sun Siblings July-December 1927, 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 Mary Sun, Elmira College, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 30, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Elmira College, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 30, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Sun 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, 1927 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 Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/776869cabbc5f1c040b99918018ba323.jpg b1e219f3fc70760541d7ca6621c46c01 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0e04c9e147b25411ecf4c20a1d3d4010.jpg 5a53f300f178a3a5934fcb0167a41cf8 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 29 Sun Siblings September-December 1926, 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 John R. Freeman, Providence, Rhode Island, October 7, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to John R. Freeman, Providence, Rhode Island, October 7, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Freeman: I believe that you are personally acquainted with Mr. C. Y. Sun of Tientsin, China, whose four children have been under my care during their stay in America these past five years. The oldest of the group, Arthur Sun, hopes to secure his degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this week and is seeking, at the request of his father, a position with some engineering firm in this country where he can gain practical experience before his return to the home land. Arthur Sun has recently applied for a position with the Metropolitan Water Supply Company of Boston, and, as he has been specializing in sanitary engineering, he feels, as do I, that a position of this kind would furnish him with just the best kind of an opportunity to put the finishing touches, so to speak, on his Technology training. I am wondering if a word from you to some of the officials of this Company would not carry a good deal of weight, provided, of course, your knowledge of and Interest in the Sun family would justify you in speaking a word in the boy’s behalf. Mr. Sun, Senior, has asked me to try to help his son secure a position of this kind and naturally I feel a good bit of responsibility in the matter without knowing exactly just how to accomplish the end desired. If the above suggestion is not practicable. I shall be ready and glad to receive any suggestions from you that may aid me in carrying out the father’s expressed wishes and in giving the boy his chance with some good American firm. Thanking you in advance for whatever help you may be willing to give me, believe me Very sincerely yours, 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 7, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns John R. Freeman https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f00d5cc03a6980155a678d12c555bd34.jpg d7e46c43cabeb0740ea7dcffe85384aa 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 29 Sun Siblings September-December 1926, 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 Frank Winsor, Metropolitan District Commission, Boston, October 7, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Frank Winsor, Metropolitan District Commission, Boston, October 7, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Winsor: Mr. Arthur Sun, a Chinese ward of mine who hopes to secure his degree this fall from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is applying, I understand, for a position with the Metropolitan Water Supply Company in order to secure the practical experience that such a position would give him. I am sending this note merely to express the hope that you will be able to act favorably on this application. Arthur Sun is one of over sixty Chinese boys who have been under my care during the last twenty-five years while they were students in our American institutions. The boy's father is a prominent wealthy and progressive Chinese who has generously aided good causes at home and abroad. He was chairman of the Chinese Red Cross during the World War and has served in the same capacity on a number of famine and flood relief committees in his country since that time. Naturally I feel a good bit of responsibility towards his four children who have been under my care in this country for the last five years, and I am especially anxious to make possible the realization of Mr. Sun's expressed wish that his son should have a year or two of practical engineering experience following the Technology course. Any assistance you can consistently extend to the boy will be very deeply appreciated. Very sincerely yours, 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 7, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Frank Winsor https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/064fae30aa7ea042f545ca065ce8bbd4.jpg 234a296dd38baf742fa6710d93bcca28 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 29 Sun Siblings July-December 1927, 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 Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., October 1, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., October 1, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: Thank you for your good letter of September 30. I am glad to learn that the data I sent you for Norwich University finally reached you in safety. I expect to be up in Amherst before the month is over to attend my first meeting of the Trustees, and I shall certainly hope to see you at that time. Please tell me whether the report that has reached me recently, to the effect that you have been taken into [illegible], is correct. If some good fraternity up there has taken you or doesn’t take you soon, I shall have a pretty poor opinion of undergraduate judgment. With best of wishes to you, believe me Very sincerely yours, AES/G Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 1, 1927 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 Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c7288cc623ae62a6be993036575d993c.jpg a64bf9df42e262a94563197bb63cf49a https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4edf6f1221e9be6917cb82f4ac3984e6.jpg bfcb19d1d6753b26ac591ad42d6d3c04 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 29 Sun Siblings September-December 1926, 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 Arthur G. Robinson, Kansas City, Missouri, October 4, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, Kansas City, Missouri, October 4, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Robinson: I have your letter of September 28 and am enclosing check to cover the expenses listed on your statement. Kindly return receipt for my files. I am dreadfully sorry about this whole unfortunate mix-up over Mary's room at Elmira. Frankly, I doubt if anything would be gained by sending Mary's letter on to her father, especially since the Elmira authorities were so emphatic in their statements to me that the plan we had discussed was unwise and that Mary was acting entirely in accord with their desires and methods in taking the dormitory room. Of course you must remember that Mary has now been in this country a number of years and is older and mature than many of the Chinese girls already in college. For the past two years, especially, I have given her increasingly more responsibility in handling her own affairs, though, even so, I imagine from what I have seen that she has been more carefully directed in such matters than almost any other Chinese girls in the country today. The one thing that I most seriously blame her for in this particular mix-up is her failure to advise me that she was planning to invest the week-end on her way to Elmira with a friend in Trenton. The plan would doubtless have had my approval had it been explained to me in advance, but, as it was, I was left in the dark for the time being as to her whereabouts and that only added to the confusion and the anxiety. Again my thanks for all you have done to aid me and my regrets for the unnecessary anxiety and trouble you have been caused. Very sincerely yours, 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 4, 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 Arthur G. Robinson Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0274bf3efb2e3b96c4d716c6689669cf.jpg c5ae1f3a015c64a67b21dbaef6bb72a0 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 29 Sun Siblings July-December 1927, 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 Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns, September 30, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns, September 30, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charles Sun 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, 1927 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 Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3036dab31b84b88822396962b90cb3ff.jpg 2d86be5f3b9751f203ca78d1ec443c6d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/42d27110a44fcc8df44bdada3f951fc9.jpg 7686f2dccd0125ac7ee1e80dd1810374 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/53f80b9a8c1ebe5f3c8a60e6cb3d472d.jpg 6bfae7e82ee95e554b31e687b041b821 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 29 Sun Siblings September-December 1926, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, October 4, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, October 4, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of August 23 with instructions as to the readjustments of the credits of the accounts of your children. Following your request, I have transferred form Quincey Sheh's account the sum of $1,000.00 and have added this as credits of $500.00, each, to the accounts of Mary and Tom. The new school year starts off with the last of your children leaving Andover for a higher institution. The last one is Tom, who has just entered Middlebury College, having succeeded, somewhat to my surprise but greatly to my satisfaction, in passing off the final entrance requirements this fall. Tom did some good hard work this summer which has borne fruit. Middlebury is a college of excellent standing, though one of the smaller ones, and Mr. Moody, the president, has expressed great personal interest in Tom's case and has promised to follow him closely. Moody is a very close personal friend of mine and the son of Dwight Moody, the famous American Evangelist and the founder of the Northfield Schools of international reputation. Arthur is just about to take his make-up examinations at the Institute of Technology in Cambridge in the hope of securing his too long deferred degree. He is anxious to get a position for the coming year where he can secure practice experience, but, as he seems unwilling to start as a draftsman, such a position is exceedingly difficult to find. I have suggested to him that it would be well to being even in this humble capacity and then bend every effort to prove himself worthy of broader work. Of course if he should by chance fail his make-up examinations, though I hope this may not happen, he will find it almost impossible to secure a position of the kind he seeks. He is to confer with me the moment the results of his examinations are known. Charlie returns to Amherst and goes on his steady and dependable course. He is in every way a most satisfactory fellow to work with and his record has been an increasing source of satisfaction to me, as I am sure it must be to you. Mary's problem has been a bit trying of late. With Minister Sze's help, arrangements were made for her admission to Elmira College, as you know. To complete the necessary preparation to visit approved friends during that period. With my endorsement she went to Springfield, Mass., for the last week of the vacation to stay with a friend there, planning to go direct from there to her college for its opening early the following week. At the end of the week in question Mr. Robinson arrived and we discussed together, of course, the situation of all the children. Mr. Robinson seemed to think it very desirable that someone should accompany Mary to Elmira. Since for the past two years she has had a large experience in handling her own affairs, I felt that she was perfectly capable of taking this next step alone, as nearly all of our American girls are accustomed to do and as I know many Chinese girls have done also. Yielding to Mr. Robinson’s feelings, however, I got in touch with Arthur and Charlie by telegraph, only to find that it would be impossible for them to adjust their plans to make the trip. Mr. Robinson then suggested that he would try to meet Mary himself en route to Elmira and accompany her there and that, if this proved impossible, he would get his sister to go. Consequently I endeavored to advise Mary of the situation and plans but discovered that she had already left Springfield Saturday and was passing the week-end with a school friend in Trenton, K. J., and thus avoiding the necessity of investing: a night in New York City or elsewhere on the way to Elmira. The plan she was carrying out was in every way a proper one though her failure to notify me in advance caused both Mr. Robinson and myself for the moment a great deal of confusion and some anxiety. I am sure, however, that Mary felt that she was doing the right thing and did not realize that any confusion might result. Mr. Robinson from the outset was very insistent that Mary should room her first year at Elmira in a private home, and, as he told me that this was your earnest wish, I naturally accepted the plan and advised Mary accordingly. Mary’s reply indicated great distress, which, for the moment, I could not understand, later, however, I received a letter from the Registrar at Elmira, in which she expressed most emphatically disapproval of the arrangement which she said was wholly contrary to their practices and which the college authorities felt strongly would be unwise for and unfair to Mary herself. She added that the college freshman dormitory provided surroundings in every way wholesome and best conducive to the welfare of students entering. Naturally under these conditions I felt it would be unwise to carry out Mr. Robinson’s plan and that you, yourself, would feel so too, if you were in possession of the information from thee college authorities which had just been placed in my hands. Further, Mary had already signed a contract for the dormitory room with my full approval; so that there was in a sense another obligation involved. Mr. Robinson in the meantime had arranged with some missionary family in Elmira to take Mary in: so, of course, it was necessary to explain matters to them which I attempted, to the best of my ability, to do. I hope that my final decision will meet with your fullest approval. My one desire was to do what was proper and best for Mary and at the same time follow a course that would be approved by you. Mr. Robinson’s arrival just as the college was about to open and the injunction of the new plan naturally upset things a good bit, and the complications were a little more pronounced because of the intimation, riven by Mary in one of her letters, that Mr. Robinson might not fully represent your real views in the matter, especially if the actual facts and conditions had been fully known to you in advance. Of course this intimation, and I am passing it on to you in confidence, did not affect the situation or influence me in my final decision. I simply felt that the college authorities knew best what Mary ought to do and that their own statement to me that for me to place Mary outside would be unwise and contrary to college practice must be relied on. Please pardon these somewhat lengthy details, but I am anxious that you should have all the facts before you so as to understand just what has been done and why. There are times when I would give almost anything to be able to talk matters over with you, for even just a few minutes but face to face, for I feel a pretty heavy sense of responsibility in attempting to work out by myself and at this distance all the problems which confront me in connection with the care and education of your four children. With warm personal regards, believe me always Very sincerely yours, 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 4, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1987090504100b75088340ca7e9d3c14.jpg 888066ce3084de1f30f7d9ff11108dfd 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 29 Sun Siblings July-December 1927, 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 Mary Sun, Elmira College, September 28, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, September 28, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Year telegram has just reached me, but unfortunately I wrote your father several weeks ago, and prompted by your own urgent request, endorsing heartily your proposed plan to take the course at the Yale Nursing School. I shall await the receipt of your letter with interest to know what has led you to change your plans so suddenly but in the meantime I am sending this note at once so that you may know how matters stand. Every sincerely yours, 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, 1927 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 Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/353c559fd07fa89ce7436410ff10fd74.jpg 87db81e0e1bc6e0a7734819fa585c212 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 29 Sun Siblings July-December 1927, 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 Mary Sun, Elmira College, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 27, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Mary Sun, Elmira College, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 27, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Sun 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 27, 1927 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 Telegram Relation A related resource PLEASE DO NOT MENTION YALE NURSES SCHOOL TO FATHER IF YOU HAVENT YET LETTER FOLLOWS Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b545744e300b121c6401fea60396b50a.jpg b1fba69e831b7ca0c79190cb70cebfc5 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 29 Sun Siblings September-December 1926, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 22, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 22, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns, I am in receipt of your kind letter of July 16th informing me the receipt of the remittance of G. $7,500.00 for the account of the children for which I wish to thank you. The statements of the accounts of my children & Quincy Sheh that have sent to me by your Secretary Mr Greenwood recently I found Quincy has the biggest credit balance than others, I therefore suggest that you credit him with $500.00. Instead of $1,500.00 out of the last remittance of $7,500.00., as to the $1,000,00. difference thus created I propose to place to the credits of Mary’s & Tom’s accounts each with $500,00. Trusting this will not give you too much trouble. With kindest regards very cordially yours Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. Sun 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 22, 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