283 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9b3f5900c908d83c91e2d8e3dc5d85ba.jpg 75af3d8198226ec1dfe0e322b01f162c https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/37f670bfedd815e658f90361166ade9c.jpg 924fc4754a0997def013a211c1fb2cbc 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 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, March 7, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, March 7, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun, Let me thank you for your very satisfactory letter which reached me several days ago. I should have written you long before this but I have delayed in the hope of securing some fairly satisfactory basis on which to estimate a proper charge to make for the housing and care of your children. My only regret is that this matter has to be considered at all, for I am free to admit that I thoroughly enjoy having the youngsters with me. For the first few weeks they were a bit on the defensive, which was only natural, and I felt a bit apprehensive as to how the experiment was going to work out. But as soon as they found that they were among friends their reserve changed to warm friendliness, and they have been as responsive and as eager to cooperate as one could ask. Before deciding what would be a fair charge I allowed several months to pass in order to see just how my house bills were running under the new regime. I also talked the situation over fully with Mr. Robinson in New York, for I know that he had been back in the country long enough to appreciate something of the nature of the present high prices in America. As a result of all this it has seemed that a charge of twenty five dollars a week for each of the children would not be far from the actual cost to me, and hence I have made the charge on that basis. In Arthur’s case I am charging only the room rent, as he boards at the school dining hall, and at the customary rate obtaining in the private houses where our boys are allowed to room, namely seven dollars a week. I confess that the charge seemed to me at first too high and I had hoped that I could figure it at a lower rate. In this I was disappointed. The biggest and most difficult problem with which I have to deal is the servants. You can hardly appreciate its character. The excessive prices paid by our mills during the war completely demoralized the whole servant question, bad enough even before. Servants are hard to get in any case, and when secured they demand from three to four times what they received only a few years back. More than that they will generally refuse to work for a family that counts more than three or four persons at the table. When the children first arrived last fall both of my maids promptly struck for higher wages which I was obliged to pay to keep them. In spite of that they left shortly after, and since that time we have had to change many times. My housekeeper has had to spend many days in Boston in employment offices hunting for new maids. And in addition to all this we have found it necessary to employ a third maid to help for a few hours each day with the cleaning. My help alone cost me at present no less than thirty five dollars a week, and that does not include their board which I have to furnish. These details very likely have little interest to you, but I merely desire to acquaint you with all the circumstances that you may form some idea of the nature of my problem and the general basis of my estimates, Some of our food prices have already fallen a bit, and I can assure you that if a shrinkage here on in any other housekeeping expense makes it possible to reduce the charge mentioned the reduction will be gladly made, for I do not wish to make money out of the transaction, Were it not for the troublesome servant problem I should look upon the presence of these youngsters in my household as an unalloyed pleasure though not unmindful of the significant responsibility involved. I have also tried to view the situation from other angles for the purpose of checking up my figures. The charge at a local boarding house not far from the school is thirty five dollars a week. At the Phillips Inn, the small hotel run in connection with the school, the charge is still higher. Again the good boarding schools are now charging from twelve to fifteen and even sixteen hundred dollars a year, and as these schools are regularly in session only about eight months of the full year those who attend them must still meet the expenses of the other four months. On the basis of the arrangements which I have made for the children the total expense ought to be less than it would be if they had been placed at the outset in boarding schools. At the same time I think they are getting fully as much as if they were so located. Our local public schools are good and I have secured the cooperation of the superintendent in getting them the best teachers available. Miss Clemons, who has charge of my house, is deeply interested in her new charges and is unusually well qualified to give them what they need. For a number of years she conducted a private school of her own in a neighboring city and later taught in one of our best boarding schools. My own daughter had been under her care for several years and at was from this work that she came to take charge of my house and family after it was found necessary for my wife to go to a hospital. She is very fond of children, devotes herself without stint to their welfare, but is strict and insists on proper obedience. In my judgment the combination of the public school and the personal care that Miss Clemons gives offers as much as if not more than the best schools would ordinarily supply, at least for the first year's stay in a new country. Of course the children have in addition the advantage of being able to enjoy and profit by all that the big school here offers in the way of games entertainments, musicals, lectures etc. I should not dwell on all of these things if my problem were not a bit unusual, I should very much have preferred to sit down with you in advance and agree upon proper terms before undertaking to carry out my part of the transaction. Tat [sic] would have been the business like way of doing things: but of course that was out of the question. The fact that you have placed such complete and such unusual trust in me in leaving all details to my decision renders me all the more sensible of the obligation I owe. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 7, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7110a6525a5a54f957932841be7f07a5.jpg 349f091ab5aa372b8d071b87025cd9b5 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 1920-1924, 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 M.T. Liang, Tientsin, April 11, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, April 11, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Liang: Your most interesting letter of March 6 is before me and I have enjoyed it thoroughly. Although the Sun children hear frequently from home, they always relish a word from the home land which comes through another channel, and so when I passed on to them a few remarks from your good letter to me, they were welcomed with eagerness and delight. Deeply as I appreciate your generous sentiments, I do with that it were possible for us all to eliminate from our minds any thoughts of material and business benefits that may result to either nation from a more friendly and intimate contact and relationship. I get thoroughly disgusted at times when I read articles in the American press and magazines which harp eternally on that one theme. Perhaps neither eastern nor westen civilization has been of a high enough standard to disassociate material from the moral and spiritual realm, but Heaven knows we ought to strive a bit harder to attaint that goal, for it is the only one which offers a future of world peace and happy and inspiring relationship. I congratulate you heartily on what you have done and are still doing in the work of your famine relief. It must be a tremendous burden and yet at the same time a most inspiring task. Committees are still actively at work in this country, and their appeals are constantly reaching us. I note, too, and with satisfaction that contributions are still coming in. Please remember me to any of my good friends you may happen to see out there in the Far East, and accept for Mrs. Liang and yourself my very kindest regards and best wishes for the days ahead. I do hope that we may have the pleasure of welcoming you again to this country and to the Andover home with which you are at least somewhat familiar. 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 April 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns M.T. Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ff7a1239818e32e15350f34238bb0cb9.jpg b9b7d2aa97892d30e3fc0cae00fe7ed5 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 1920-1924, 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 Walter Humphrey, Registrar, MIT, April 13, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Walter Humphrey, Registrar, MIT, April 13, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Humphreys: We are having a little trouble in straightening out the work of Arthur Sun, one of our Chinese students now in the Senior class, with reference to admission to the Institute next fall. The case has already been called to the attention of your office, and has undoubtedly been dealt with very fairly, but Mr. Newton, our Senior Class Officer, and I are wondering whether it may yet be possible to secure a little more in the way of admission credits from the boy's previous record in China, notably at Tsing Hua College. I believe you will allow a substitution of Chinese for the regular German requirement? If so, that particular difficulty will be taken care of. Is there no way that the History requirement can be made on the basis of the work covered in China, which includes a large amount of Chinese History and Literature? Also is it possible that some subject of subjects on that list can be used for the two-year elective requirement. If an answer to those inquiries can be made in the affirmative, I believe we shall have no difficulty in rounding out the boy's preparation and sending him to you next fall. I am sending back the Tsing Hua certificate for your assistance. I might say that Arthur Sun, the boy in question, happens to live in my own house. He is a very earnest and hard working fellow and has real ability in certain lines; in Mechanical Drawing he is one of the best in the class. With personal regards, 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 April 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Walter Humphreys https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/35ec7113ccf1c2acb6e15dc2a47c1908.jpg 2e6c05bd8e266af8aacbbd2f1b9b9750 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/195c7c8bb9d0e31f3375d955f3855a4c.jpg 9aaacc29e2aabe0c6fef2d52f188f3c1 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 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, April 16, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, April 16, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Your very kind letter of February 7 reached me sometime ago and should have been answered earlier. I always find it difficult to write to those to whom I have more than the usual amount to say, and hence I have deferred my answer to your letter in the hope that I could find the time to treat it and the other problems as they deserve. As it is I must make the best of the limited time at my disposal and hope for better luck later. In response to your suggestion I am asking for duplicate reports of the work of the three younger children in the public schools. Unlike the reports of Phillips Academy which are sent direct to parents and guardians for preservation if desired, the reports from the public schools are sent for inspection only and must be returned to the school authorities. These reports have regularly come to me, and after inspection and signing have been returned. I am glad to say that they have been uniformly good and that the record has been confirmed in such conversations as I have had from time to time with the teachers, themselves. Just at present I am corresponding with the authorities of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in regard to Arthur's admission next fall. If the Institute will allow him credit on some of the history and language work he has had in China, his present schedule will shape up in a very satisfactory way. I am hopeful that these concessions will be granted. Let me take this opportunity also to thank you for your most generous but wholly unnecessary thought of me and the other members of the family circle in the remembrances which you advised me are being sent to us through your friend, at present, I believe, in Europe. Your generosity is altogether too great, for I can assure you so far as I am concerned it has been only a pleasure, and an increasing one at that, to have these youngsters in my own family circle. The strain, such as it is, comes entirely upon Miss Clemons who has charge of my house and who watches with care the children, themselves, and provides as best she can for their special needs. The generous and friendly cooperation which they, themselves, regularly give makes the task, while strenuous at times, far from disagreeable. Of course there are still some of our American ways which the children find it hard to accept, but it has been our endeavor to insist only upon those things which we are accustomed to regard as essential in this country for well brought up girls and boys alike. I do hope, therefore, that merely because the children are under my roof you will not feel that you are obligated in any way to me for their care and oversight beyond the definite charges which the actual expense involved seem to make necessary. Very deeply as I appreciate your generous thought of me, I should be distressed to believe that this could in any way prompt you to feel yourself under special obligations. On the whole the children have been in the best of health. Mary is just recovering from a cold which while not at all serious prompted Miss Clemons to hold her in bed for a couple of days as a precaution merely. Charles had a week's setback in the form of pink eye or conjunctivitis which did not seem to yield readily to treatment. To make sure that he was being handles in the best way, I sent him to an excellent oculist in a neighboring city where by the aid of special instruments it was discovered that the trouble had arisen from the presence of a slight piece of foreign matter in the boy's eyeball and directly over the pupil. This was removed and fortunately no ill consequences resulted. The oculist feared a possible infection because of the presence of the conjunctivitis and the consequent inflamed condition of the eye, and it was a great relief to us all when the period of danger passed without serious results. While he was in this condition, Charles remained at the school infirmary, both because of the care he could receive there and also to avoid the possibility of contagion for the rest of the family. Arthur continues to work hard, but finds some of this studies, notably the languages, very difficult. His instructor in Mechanical Drawing, on the other hand, reports that his work in that subject entitles him to rank among the very best boys in the class. I am constantly urging Arthur, as you have requested, to meet all of the school requirements promptly [illegible] no disposition to neglect his school obligations. Again assuring you of my very deep and genuine appreciation of your thoughtfulness and with personal regards, believe me, Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 16, 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c39355d374b0bb363626d090a99d11fe.jpg 90891422cc493bbb495b0a559f99e30e 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 1920-1924, 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 Hsu Shian Lin (father of Frank Lin), Tientsin, to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, May 16, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Hsu Shian Lin (father of Frank Lin), Tientsin, to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, May 16, 1921 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hsu Shian Lin (father of Frank Lin) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 16, 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 Dear Mr. Liang, My son, Frank C.F. Lin, is at present studying in Phillip's Academy, Mass, where Mr. Stearns is the Principal. As I am not acquainted with this gentle man, I shall therefore be obliged if you will kindly write to him to act as Guidance of my boy. I would have to see you personally, had I not been called away to Peking for some important mission. Thanking you in anticipation, Yours sincerely, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Frank Lin Hsu Shian Lin M.T. Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1cedd1cb3d24c1f59cd3ae5700762ffa.jpg 19f52c2736d87dee81135bd4d55cdd3f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2a1a618de845313326893885fd4f232a.jpg fb4f2f6871c8b7a721ba2566a5fd5e6f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/83753c9444cb53f7d362e9759479e2c1.jpg 1e3ea14863083986fbbb55bf27dd4b15 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 1920-1924, 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 M.T. Liang, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, May 21, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from M.T. Liang, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, May 21, 1921 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource M.T. Liang Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 21, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns M.T. Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/637b89ba3da02f766829d3894e5defcd.jpg d08ca51899fb227205cd36f651c9675e https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/52812c924400956dacfc6b22476c23e5.jpg 3b4ef1f8608769cb6860436a653404b9 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 1920-1924, 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 M.T. Liang, Tientsin, June 24, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, June 24, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Liang: Your fine and generous letter of May 21st has just reached me. As we are just closing the school year and making our plans for the summer I am in the midst of an unusual rush and will only attempt to acknowledge the receipt of your missive and send you a brief word of appreciation and good will. I find it quite a problem to make satisfactory arrangements for the summer for all the Chinese boys entrusted to my care. It seems best to let them all go to summer camp, but not too many in one place. The two younger Sun boys will go to my own camp at Connecticut Lake, and probably one other of their countrymen will be in the party. Arthur Sun, Quincey Sheh and Frank Lin will be placed in other and good camps which are in the control of men who are my personal friends, and who would take special interest in the boys in consequence. Only yesterday I slipped down to the Town Hall in the afternoon to attend the public exercises in connection with the graduation of upper grade of the Grammar School. Charles, Thomas and Mary were members of the class and they were anxious to have me present, as I was indeed to be there. Each pupil was called in turn to the stage to receive his or her diploma, and friends and partisans expressed their approval by the usual hand clapping. What interested me chiefly was to find that those three children from the Far East received greater applause than did any of the American classmates, a clear indication that they had won their way into the hearts and affections of their friends and play mates over here. I am not surprised, for it would be hard to find three nicer youngsters than these, and when I attempt to express an opinion of Mary I really can't find words to do her justice. I doubt whether I have ever met a child with a sunnier, sweeter and evener disposition than that girl possesses. Before the summer is over I hope to send you some further word of our whereabouts and doings. How I wish you might be with me to enjoy the mountain air and glorious scenery of my summer home up in northern New Hampshire. Accept please my heartiest good wishes for the days ahead, and kindly remember me to any old and inquiring friends of mine whom you may happen to run across from time to time in your part of the world. I always remember with deep appreciation and pleasure the friendly good will of Mr. Chow, good will which must have been tested pretty severely when I attempted so unsuccessfully to do something worth while — for his somewhat rebellious son. 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 June 24, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns M.T. Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/472d3f93922b83a9e158281da0992f97.jpg 43be3f4e6bd7a454ef2d5af9d19221f2 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bde30b436b5ac0bc7783bfe7b6f08e8d.jpg 5885dfbce2bc5094dfa1fcbbca7d9d42 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 1920-1924, 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, July 11, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 11, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns, First of all I wish to acknowledge receipt of your three letters dated March 7th., April 16th. and May 24th respectively. I am not unaware of my guilty in not having fully answering them much sooner than this and having allowed your letters to accumulate. But since August last, I have been exceedingly busy in the famine relief work. It is strange to say that it had taken almost all my time and energy and today I feel the effect of such an effort. During the last month, I was compelled to go to the mountains for a complete rest. Answering your letter of March 7th., allow me to say that while having never been in your country and come into intimate contact with the economic situation in America, I fully appreciate the effect of high cost of living upon every phase of American life. I can readily understand your servant problem. And I sincerely consider what you charge for my children’s room and board is only fair and just. As I have repeatedly assured you, what in your judgment to be right is satisfactory to me. I am much indebted to you for the care you exercise over my children in every other way than the financial matters, which are so well taken care off. Let me thank you also for the statements so carefully prepared showing a balance on March 1st. to be: Arthur $185.59; Charles $491.14; Thomas $483.82; Mary $587.41. I am glad to hear that the children are not unruly and are happy. I have no doubt that they have improved greatly since they were placed under your oversight. In this connection, I am not ungrateful to the kindness of Miss Clemons who takes such a care of them. My especial thanks are due her for her care to Mary when she was sick with a cold. I also very deeply appreciate your kindness to Chareles [sic] when he was operated upon. In short, I consider it a great fortune to the children to have the help they receive from you. Regarding the plan for the summer, I will again leave the matter entirety to your judgment and, moreover, my letter will reach you after such plans are made I know you will give them the best that is obtainable. I am glad Mr. Robinson has paid you a visit recently. He has been a good friend of ours when he was in Tientsin and it is really good of him to have come to see the children, and talked over their well-being with you. I am afraid, some of the children, knowing my situation, may have given you the impression that their expenses are a little higher than their parents would them to bear and even made to suggestion of going to some summer camp where fees are relatively lower. I must say such suggestions are altogether unwarranted. I am glad you did not approve of their going to the camps they suggested. From the letters I receive from the children, Charles and Thomas are members of the Boyscotts [sic]. I am glad they are. If there is a girlscott [sic] in Andover, I wish Mary will also join. From the last paragraph of your letter dated May 24th., the party in your house is about to be broken up next fall. Arthur going to Boston, Charles and Thomas entering Phillips and Mary going somewhere else. If you think time has come when these youngsters are qualified to be away from your personal guildance [sic], let them go where they will receive the fullest benefit. I know you will not fall in placing them always under the best Christian influence for I wish to see them develop to be true Christians. As to Arthur's language difficulties, I am much concerned, I think he should be fully equipped with facilities to express himself fully when he returns. I consider an education is not complete without a thoroughly efficient command of the English language, however well he may be informed in technical subjects. I know you will see that his English is improved even he has to spend a little more time just for this particular subject. I am perhaps too ambitious to entertain the hope that these children will come back to China with the best education and will be ranked among the returned students as among the best. I envy our friend Mr. M.T. Liang whose elderest [sic] boy, Paul, recently returned from England with the highest degree and is now rapidly gaining reputation in Tientsin as a surgeon. In this connection, I doubt if it meets with your approval to have some of the younger children to take up Latin next fall. I think foreign language can be best learnt while they are yet young. If you think none of them is yet ready to study Latin this coming fall, any foreign language perhaps will be just as suitable to them. At any rate, I leave this, as all other matters, to your best judgment. Once more, let me thank you, dear Dr. Stearns for all the care I imposed upon you. I also wish to thank Miss Stearns for her kindness to Mary. With my best wishes and regards. Yours gratefully, P.S. I enclose a letter addressed to my children. Please be good enough as pass it onto them. 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 July 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/74daa8f542ece73285f3ee02af407dfe.jpg fd8c4542d889590c4766318b6d6c14cb https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/875e68fed54595be4c2057869da3bbef.jpg 583b629e0265312706c4f195c030f671 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 1920-1924, 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 10, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 10, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns; Mr. Liang has been good enough as to show me your letter to him dated the 24th June. It goes without saying that I was much interested in its contents. I am glad that the children, under your eminent guidance, have met with successes in their career. Mary wrote to me about the ball game, Andover vs. Exeter. I am much astonished at her excitement she betrayed upon Andover's victory and how she went to ring the school bell. She was rather a reserved girl a year ago. It is such a change in her temperament. During the year past she must have learned the true meaning of sympathy and how to respond freely and fully to the right stimuli I feel that she is now free from that restraint common to our old custom and observed by our young girls. After reading carefully once more the letters you wrote me and the letter I sent to you on July 11th, I have just one more word to add. From your letter I gathered the impression that all the four children are likely to be separated by the coming term. I hope you understand that their leaving your house is the least thing I desired. Though under changed circumstance and with your approval, I must agree to their seeking new homes elsewhere. It is most gratifying to learn from Mary that she will go to the same school with your daughter. As to Charles, Thomas, I hope you will still keep them in your house as they are to enter Philips [sic] Academy only. I wrote to you in my last letter about these youngsters to learn Latin. Whether they should take it up or not I leave the matter wholly to your expert judgement, though I think that these children may be benefitted by acquiring a scholarly preparation now besides whatever profession they may take up afterwards. From my observation they have the languist [sic] talent. Do you think it would be advisable for them to take up German besides French and English. Regarding to Arthur I have not heard definitly [sic] about his having passed his examination, as I have only received 3 diplomas. From the tones of the letters I received I presume he will be qualified to enter college. I am glad to hear that Arthur has joined camp Aloha of New Hampshire with Quincy and that the three younger ones are enjoying camping with you. Inclosed please find herewith a draft on Irving Rational Bank of N.Y. No I2/226 dated Aug. 3rd ’21, to your order amounting to $3,000. Please credit same as follows; $1,000. to Arthur, $1,000 to Quincy Shih (by his father’s/request) /$400, to Mary and $300. each to Charles and Thomas, and much oblige. In conclusion permit me to thank you most sincerely for all the trouble you have taken on my childrens' behalf. Your very sincerely, 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 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5608a0b5f2719316cf8af989af142d99.jpg 1f4930cbd482816f8770c7b3ffb4e82d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1cc0323e96ad24fb5532c7c519c38c8a.jpg 97246d5dbbddb3fca30406bd081e63ab 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 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, September 14, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, September 14, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Your welcome letters of July 11 and August 10 were duly received and should have been answered before this. The past few weeks, however, have been unusually busy ones, and at this moment the rush attending the opening of a new school year is at its height. I shall write you more fully later but send this word to thank you most warmly for the kind sentiments you have so generously expressed and to tell you briefly the plans that have been made for the children for this new school year. Let me first, however, acknowledge the receipt of your check for $3000 which, as requested, I have credited as follows: $1000 to Arthur $1000 to Quincy Sheh $400 to Mary $300 to Charles $300 to Thomas During the summer Arthur has been at the Camp Aloha Summer School where he has seemingly done excellent work in his studies and where he has made many and good friends. Quincy Sheh was at the same camp, and I have had from those in charge very warm words of commendation of both the work and spirit of these two boys. Arthur will enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston the last of this month. As he will be only about twenty miles from us I hope we shall see a good bit of him during the year. Quincy returns to Andover to complete its college preparation and will room in my house, though boarding in one of the regular school houses. Thomas and Charles are entering the Academy this week. They are a bit nervous, I can easily see, over the new responsibilities, but I feel sure that they will soon gain the confidence they need and will find it possible to meet the new school requirements in a satisfactory way. Owing to their ages which slightly below most of the boys who enter the school, I have not deemed it wise to give them full schedules this year. It is the usual practice here to allow town boys who live at home to enter the school somewhat younger than do the boys who come from a distance. To lighten up their work for the first two years and to permit them to take five instead of four years to complete their course this is the plan I have outlined for these boys and on this basis their schedules will include this year; regular Algebra; French; and a double course in English. In order that they may handle the other work to the best advantage it is very essential that the English foundation be made as strong as possible. If I find that the situation requires it, I shall arrange to give them some special work outside or the regular classrooms. I hope that this will not prove necessary. During the summer Tom and Charles have been at a summer camp up at my own summer place where they won the hearts of all and were among the most popular boys in the camp. I had them do a little work in English up there under a tutor in order to strengthen their knowledge of that subject. It seems best for me to keep these boys for another year in my own house where Miss Clemons, who has mothered them so satisfactorily this past year, will still be able to help and advise them. I had planned to have them board at the School Dining Hall and supposed that they would welcome this change. Just now they seem to prefer to remain with me, and I find that this is a deep-rooted preference, I shall hope to be able to allow them to stay. Mary was at my own summer home throughout the summer months. Unfortunately she does not like the woods and mountains and I am sure had a pretty unhappy time of it, especially as we were without maids during the last month and had to do a good bit of our own work. She did not, however, allow her feelings to mar the fine spirit and instincts that have always been hers and which stamp her as a rare and unusual girl. For this school year she has gone with my own daughter to Northfield Seminary. This is the school established by the late Dwight Moody, the well known Evangelist, and is now in charge of his son who has been a close and intimate friend of mine since boyhood. The Christian influences at this school are pronounced, though the restraints, in some ways, are more exacting than I would naturally prefer. I confess, however, that in America today practically all of the well known boarding schools for girls are so honeycombed with fads and fancies and modern superficialities that I dread the thought of subjecting a high-minded cultured girl to their influence. Northfield is as free form these things as any modern school could well be, and the courses of study there are of the very best. Most of the girls, it is true, come from families of limited means, but I do not feel that this fact can prove anything but helpful to both of the girls concerned. My home, of course, will still be Mary's, and I cannot tell you how much we miss her wonderfully sunshiny spirit from the household. I can see from your letter a trace of anxiety as to Mary's development, your feelings evidently being based upon the report I made to Mr. Liang of her excitement at the time of the Andover victory over her rival school. Please do not think that she has lost any of that inherent modesty and refinement that are so pronounced in her, and which it is my aim to preserve in every possible way. The Chapel is just across the street from my own home, and when she, Marjory, and Miss Clemons, in the enthusiasm of the moment, decided to pull the bell rope there, following an old custom, they were in as much seclusion as if they had been in their own back yard. I think I forgot to refer to the Latin situation in connection with Thomas and Charles. My feeling is that it will be better to limit the language work this year to French and English and to hold the Latin in reserve for next year, in case it seems wise to give them that subject. The larger majority of our Chinese students have not taken Latin, but I realize none the less its value and would be disposed to encourage the boys to include it in their schedule if they can do so without too great a strain. Of course a foreigner who works at a language is really working at two languages at one and the same time, since the medium through which he works, in this case English, is also a foreign language to him. The matter of the German also can be decided later. The main thing now is to give the boys a good and fair start. Let me state to you again in closing what a rare privilege I consider it to be allowed to have these most friendly and responsive children in my home circle. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 14, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns