288 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2cd35dd520a3b0064ba360ec7d06840a.jpg 2508113307b76b0a2333cf8adfd87bb4 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, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Charles Sun, MIT Dorm, August 29, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Charles Sun, MIT Dorm, August 29, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: Your letter of August 24 has been read with very great interest. I should much prefer to discuss with you in person the proposition suggested, rather than attempt to reach a decision at this distance. I have decided, however, to fill out the application as requested and am returning it herewith, leaving you to complete the form and send it on to Norwich, if you so desire. I can't quite think of you as a military man, for it seems as if your natural inclinations and tastes were of a higher order. On the other hand, if there were a stable government in China, or if your military knowledge can aid in establishing one, I should favor the scheme most heartily. Military men of high ideals like Gen. Leonard Wood, for example, can do wonderfully constructive work in the world and of the very finest kind. The average military man, however, is content with much less important things, and often become a mere troublemaker. I am sure that you would be actuated by the highest motives in whatever profession you engaged, so that I am perfectly willing to endorse this plan of yours, if you really wish to carry it through. I should do so, however, on the understanding that your father would approve. On that point I am not qualified to speak, though probably you know how your father would feel. Anyway, I can see no harm in filing the application, for probably it could be canceled later if you desired. Even if you decide on some other profession, a year of military training at Norwich would be bound to prove of real value. Though, of course, it is possible that you might invest a year to better advantage if you were going into another line of work. I shall hope to find an opportunity to talk the plans over with you in person, in the not distant future. For since I have recently been elected a trustee of Amherst College, I shall probably have occasion to visit Amherst oftener than before. Trusting that the coming year of college will prove to be best of all to date. With kindest 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 Letter from Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Charles Sun, MIT Dorm, August 29, 1927 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 29, 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/95cff80e65e3a2d987889fbde2bacbeb.jpg 9edeba144faaf5f67947783ad7e5a75a 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 1930, 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 Postmaster, New Haven, Conn., December 29, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Postmaster, New Haven, Conn., December 29, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Sir: Will you kindly send the package mentioned on the enclosed card and addressed to Thomas Sun to: Mr. Thomas Sun C/o Miss Mary Sun 350 Congress Avenue Hew Haven, Conn. I am enclosing stamps to cover the postage. Very truly yours, Secretary to Mr. A.E Stearns Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Secretary to Mr. A.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 December 29, 1930 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 secretary to Dr. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/59d7cf1e71c0b7b6cb97e41416ee819d.jpg 68b9c7a2a21bc7614310ced9f81063f0 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1321f80b7bb3e7c78f068f177c430b74.jpg 4c62c68c9f48a41dbba0e1a74f140174 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, MIT Dorm, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 24, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Charles Sun, MIT Dorm, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 24, 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 August 24, 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/7aa0513f8de0fdfa8ba2ca1d331ca1aa.jpg 8c4b936ddb5c6702647ad42591f97ab5 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, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, August 29, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, August 29, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Many thanks for letting me know where you are, and your plans for the future. I hope that the time won’t hang to heavily on your hands before college re-opens. With all good wishes, 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 August 29, 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/620457d5859623aa700d22112dd94289.jpg b0ae1d78529981613051cb09488db6a7 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 1930, 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 10, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 10, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Thanks for your good letter of November 8 and for the detailed account you have given me of your expenditures to date. I am enclosing a check for five hundred dollars to replenish your account, or rather, to increase its size so that you may not feel nervous as to your financial status. Five hundred ought to carry you for some time, as the heaviest expenses of the year, barring the tuition, have already been met, and Christmas vacation ought not to draw too heavily on your balance. I don't know about your physical condition, though I had always supposed it was about as good as could be asked. If you have any dentistry to be done, however, don't put it off, please. It never pays to do so, and most of us live to regret our shortcomings in that respect. I am delighted to know that Yale is getting more bearable and that you are not so lonesome as formerly. Don’t forget that you can never expect in any large university the friendly and chummy atmosphere that you find in a small college. You will, however, in time develop your own circle of friends and will find life pretty interesting and worth while after all. My very best to you. 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 November 10, 1930 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 Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ecb6ab50a73f348e60249b2b5e7c2043.jpg 6076dd658fed304f4199952ddf9e3e27 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/35b11146a1384c3d69c4e7a61ac79247.jpg 35d3789846cb4c55d5dc8692caa0ab62 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7d5de3462462d02b6706881d73bbdf20.jpg 6545b3e2a4ef7dd541645889bf39b360 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, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 21, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 21, 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 August 21, 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/eb0b1ad2de1203be59bbec788aee0c4c.jpg 324ef2a09622b784ef3cb83d40cbb189 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, MIT Dorm, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 18, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Charles Sun, MIT Dorm, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 18, 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 August 18, 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 Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Stearns: I received your letter and the check for one hundred dollars this morning; thank you, Sir, for them both. I am surprise[d] to hear you are at the Lake. The same fellow, whom I mentioned in one of my previous lettets [sic], told me that the water had been raised in the first Lake, and that your cottages are only one hundred yards away from the shore. In that case, I should think the lake would look prettier; since the water is brought up high enough so that the very brim of the lake is lined with trees. And no wonder it is cold in the mountains, for even in Boston the weather has been very chilly. I am planning to return to Amherst soon but not until then shall I beg you to send me more money to cover my college expenses. The sum you have just sent me is sufficient to carry me through the rest of this month and a greater part of the next. The meals in Boston cost almost the same as that of Amherst, but the room is considerably dearer. If it were not for the latter, I could gone through the summer with three hundred dollars. Neither Arthur nor Quincy has yet written us as to their arrival; it requires, I suppose, a few more days yet for their letters to reach Massachusetts. With my best wishes to you and Charlie, Obediently yours, Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e8502f3e7f712283ac874ada088c8887.jpg ec230580cf026742d323abdea92cf745 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c1cf5f7fac1fcd08748e076a44fb9451.jpg 3af1501e27f685f7c53dc06543041ed3 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 1930, 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, November 8, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, November 8, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Stearns, I received your very good letter two days ago, and I am indeed thankful for what you said therein. As for the money part of it, I just merely mentioned for you to give me all the money as a pass word. It was a result of one of wondering thoughts from which I can not shake myself loose for a long time. However, I am a little better composed now, so you need not be alarmed over any more crazy ideas from me for quite some time. I am beginning to get used to Yale and its surroundings. I came to the conclusion that I am not at all alone in my contentions and opinion of the University. Majority of the graduate students know no one except their most immediate friends, and this is true to a very large extent among the undergraduates also. So I am not the only lonesome one here. If they can stand it, I should think I ought to be able to do it also. As I said in my last letter that I would be needing some more money in the near future, I am writing you this letter to ask you of that favor. I have told you that New Haven is a rather expensive place, especially when the university is in session. I encountered my heaviest expenses during the first few weeks here, when I was trying to get settled. Then I bought things which I thought essential. Now I am well stocked with whatever I need for the rest of the winter, I hope. The only thing I might need now is may be another winter suit. I don’t think I have to have that even. I have one now, and I think that will carry me throw all right. The following figures will give you a rough idea of how my expenses run: — Typewriter- $60.00 Suit 45.00 Top-coat 35 .00 Hat, shoes, and gloves 18.00 Shirts, socks, ties, underwears—14.85 Laundry to date 10.18 Room-rent to date 45.00 Garage rent 24.00 Board averaging 10.60 per week 95.40 Tobacco, magazines, amusements---20.00 Football season ticket 8.00 2 Trips to New York-- 15.00 Gas and oil for oar— 5.25 Books, file cards, notebooks, card¬holders, official documents,etc ink, paper, stationary, and other supply 28.85 Toilet articles 2.50 Y.M.C.A. membership 15.00 $442.03 The above is my total expenditures. I have now at this moment $207.93 on hand. As yet they have not sent my tuition to me, and they promised that I would receive the bill by the second week of this week, which will take at least $150.00 from what I have left. $150.00 is the regular tuition, and whether they will add anything onto it or not, I do not know, but I see no reason why they should. After I pay that, I will have 57.93 left, and I hope that will last me till the money which I hope you will send me comes. Send me whatever amount you wish. I am still a little green about expenses down here in New Haven. You sent me $650.00 last time. I think you know better than I do about it, although I have been down in New Haven for over two months. However, with Xmas vacation coming, I think the same amount will be about right. I will reserve my judgement for your better vision. If I can receive the money within ten days or a week, my mind will rest easier, because I don’t know what turns up next. From what the physical examiner told me at the University Department of Health, I have to visit dentists, doc¬tors and whatnot. Whether or not I will obey their orders, I do not know. As yet I have had no trouble with my health whatsoever, and I see no reason why I should visit doctors when there nothing wrong with me. That will remain to be seen. At any rate, I do wish you can send me whatever sum you consider right in a week or ten days. Very sincerely yours Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas 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 November 8, 1930 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 Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d0848b4c1789260ed5ec4b76fff12762.jpg e2f5e4f79b016d2cbd8c14f8b25454b5 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b27a26fd05f49ce4937316843c7638f4.jpg ed9f06a91ff0223905c058852426c81e 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, MIT Dorm, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 11, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Charles Sun, MIT Dorm, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 11, 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 August 11, 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 Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Stearns: As the hour of execution for Sacco and Vanzetti drew near last night, thousands of hearts seemed to stop beating and the entire city moved uneasily. Boston was armed up to the teeth; policemen in countless numbers patrolled the streets. The house of President Stratton of M. I. T. was guarded by four policemen; had any bombs been thrown into that house, I certainly would have heard it, for I slept in the dormitory in a room which is not more than ten feet away from the back yard of the President’s residence. In spite of the heavy precaution taken by the state government small riots and parades took place almost all over Boston and many place in Cambidge [sic]. But when the news arrived that the execution was delayed, things seemed more quiet. Nothing happened today as yet. I just had my old tennis racket restrung and am playing a lot of tennis for recreation. Except for a few rainy days the Boston weather has been fine and it simply invites one to go out of doors and play. I went to the Boston zoo the other day with some of my Chinese friends, and we had an enjoyable afternoon there. The sight of trees made me almost homesick for Amherst; I think I certainly had enough of summer vacation now and am ready to resume working any time. I plan to stay in Boston till the beginning of September, then I shall return to Amherst to room in my former landlady’s house to wait for the college’s reopening. But I shall need a little more money to get through the vacation; so if you please, I would like to have about one hundred dollars. Faithfully yours, Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ab4ed1f30a2f8707657eb9ef38b17519.jpg 4d1cfb86922765801c73eb04c0abb5b5 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8e61c3a377fabc3a783532f6155aa125.jpg 5714b96755cece8300a4a4ec002b94c8 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 1930, 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 5, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 5, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: I have read with great interest your most recent letter, and will try as best I can to answer some of your numerous inquiries. First of all comes the question of Mary’s return this summer. I have written your father to secure if possible an expression from him of his plans and wishes, but so far have heard nothing definite. I believe that Charlie as well as you has been hoping to accompany Mary back when she goes, so that I am not in a position to advise you as to whether or not it would be fair or even wise for you to consider such a plan too hopefully. At any rate, it seems to me that this is a question for your father rather than I or you to ultimately decide, and I would suggest that you write to him at once and frankly. I don't see how he can possibly be hurt by a letter of this kind from you, for you can put the thing in such a way as to indicate, of course, no desire or intention whatever of overriding his expressed wishes. Yes, I can well imagine that Yale and New Haven are much more expensive propositions than Middlebury College and Middlebury town. If you can secure a scholarship later, well and good. Your chances naturally will be greatly improved if your record this year is a good one; so make that the best possible. Your financial situation is about as it has been; that is your father regularly keeps a small balance with me to protect both you and Mary against emergencies. I hope for his sake, however, for I am sure he will find it difficult to understand a wide variance in expenses, that the New Haven expense account is not going to mount too fast, even though it must necessarily be a bit heavier than that at Middlebury. When it comes to the system of handling your allowances, please understand that I am not treating you a bit differently from the treatment accorded both Mary and Charlies, and Arthur, too, for that matter, when the latter two were here. The plan still holds in Mary's case. When Charlie left for London, his father wrote me explicitly to turn over to him the balance of the amount standing at that time to his credit. This I did, and since that time I have had nothing whatever to do with Charlie's funds. I am perfectly willing that you should have a reasonable balance in your bank account at New Haven, so if that balance is getting low at this time, let me know and I will be glad to replenish it a bit. I know exactly how you feel about your father’s wishes in respect to an American collegiate degree for you. Like many another Chinese father, I cannot help feeling that your father has attached as you have intimated a mythical value to a degree in itself. Perhaps because we here in America are fortunate enough to know how little of real value there may be in a degree just by itself, and how widely the values in these degrees vary, with that knowledge we are certainly not in any danger of attaching to a lone degree the high values that some foreigners do. I have discussed this proposition with your father in a number of letters in the past, but have to be a bit careful for I know he is perfectly sincere in his feelings and I would not for the world hurty [sic] him. Don’t be too sure that the Chinese representatives at New Haven are as bad as you think they are just now. If they are, then perhaps you can give them a lot of helpful advice. Anyway, look them over pretty carefully and be as friendly with them as you can until you can find out just what they need from you. In the process I am inclined to think that you will find that they are better than you now believe, and that some of them here and there may even be worth cultivating and eventually helpful friends. Just now I know you are in a pretty blue and discouraged mood, but that is natural enough after the happy year at Middlebury. But these changes are bound to come to us wherever we are, and it is our job to make the readjustments as smoothly as we can and without losing our faith and courage. Ever 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 November 5, 1930 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 Tommie [Tom] Sun