31 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d5e74de085fe88c6e5d1bbefdf0c71f8.jpg e4e99195901c1374bc48c9555e62a855 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 27 Folder 3 Alfred And Helen Tsai, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Alfred Tsai, Stearns School, Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, October 12, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Alfred Tsai, Stearns School, Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, October 12, 1927 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 12, 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 Alfred: I sent your raincoat by mail several days ago and trust that it has reached you safely. Pardon me for not sending it at once. I found it in the car on my return to Andover and took it upstairs with the intention of shipping it to you at once, but my cook saw it in the hall and hung it up in the closet where it escaped my notice until your letter came. I sent you a check yesterday for $5.00 to cover your allowance for incidentals for the month. Yes, Helen is back again at the Whittier School in Merrimac. Do write her often. Very sincerely yours, Alfred Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d83e0f091d6aa550b7476a1e4ca6643a.jpg 9907dfec4be36ff969784a21f5d6e52e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 27 Folder 3 Alfred And Helen Tsai, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Alfred Tsai, Stearns School, Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, October 3, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Alfred Tsai, Stearns School, Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, October 3, 1927 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 3, 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 My dear Alfred: I have your note of October 1st and am going to allow you an allowance of $5.00 per month. This is wholly for incidentals which can hardly be called necessaries. What you need for stamps and other necessary articles my brother will supply and charge to your account. I am asking him, however, to see that these expenditures are kept within decent and rigid limits. Frankly, I am greatly distressed at your readiness to spend money freely and thoughtlessly whenever the inclination moves you. I have had several Chinese boys in my charge who have exhibited this tendency, and not one of them has ever amounted to anything or been a credit to his family or his country. The fact that you are still young leads me to hope that you are going to overcome this weakness and promptly. Unless you do, I shall be forced to write your father advising him to call you back to China on the round that your further stay here would be only harmful to you and a needless expense to him. The sooner you learn to cultivate and understand the value of money, the sooner I shall be ready to feel that you are gaining from the American contact. I have no desire to keep you from having anything your father would wish and that is necessary or likely to be of real value to you. When it comes to needless and foolish expenditures, however, I put my foot down and hard and with the full assurance that I have your father’s hearty approval of my position. The current year has got to be a year of reasonable expenditure and definite progress in your school work. Faithfully yours, Alfred Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d91f278a81ae67146d30fa71cd50295d.jpg 9e01c276669780d016773bd9d3b343d4 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/403a3e757a88a91b5800b1ade2211d9a.jpg 75a76cf91b16dc3273cfda8bf80f025c 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 30 Sun Siblings 1923-1926 Folder 1, 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 Annie B. Russell, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass. May 25, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Annie B. Russell, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass. May 25, 1926 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 May 25, 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 Relation A related resource May 25, 1926 Mrs. Annie B. Russell Whittier School Merrimac, Mass. My dear Mrs. Russell: Thank you heartily for sending me the information about Mary’s work at Abbot and with you. This is just the material that Elmira College desires, and I am forwardly it to the College this morning. Only yesterday I received a most gratifying letter from the President of Elmira, acknowledging the receipt of my formal application for Mary’s admission next fall and telling me that they were ready to take her in on my recommendation, even though she might fall to pass all the regular entrance tests. I am not sure that it is rise to mention this to Mary for the present, for my understanding with the College authorities is that Mary will continue her work during the summer so as to bring herself as near as possible by September to the standards regularly imposed on the girls who enter. Mary writes me that her work with you ends June 3, and I am a bit at a loss to know just what arrangements to make for her for the rest of June. My own house and time will be terribly crowded during those closing days of the school year here, and it will be difficulty to provide for Mary under these circumstances; and I am not at all anxious for her to be hanging around Andover with extra time on her hands and in such close and intimate contact with the influences emanating from Abbot and elsewhere which have already caused me so much unnecessary trouble. If it is not practicable for Mary to continue work with you beyond the date mentioned, I shall try to make arrangements for her to go at once to Elmira and start operations there with a member of the faculty with whom I hope to have her continue work during the summer. Very sincerely yours Annie B. Russell (Mrs. W.C.Russell) Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8c82624a7c8a29dbce2b9d5b9906460a.jpg 62e4e662e9755206a9313214211cf587 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 Annie W. Goodrich, Dean, Yale School of Nursing, April 19, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Annie W. Goodrich, Dean, Yale School of Nursing, April 19, 1930 Relation A related resource My dear Miss Goodrich: Thank you for your letter of April 17 in which you have answered so fully my inquiries about Miss Sun. I do not think that Mr. Sun intended to have his daughter return to China for a vacation only, for he has never done as much as that even for the boys, and as you doubtless know, the daughters of the household do not regularly receive as much consideration as do their brothers. The questions put to me was merely as to the date on which Miss Sun would complete her course at Yale. I am delighted to hear that Mary is doing so well in her practical work, and I trust that the one deficiency which still stands against her in her studies will be cleared away in time. It is too bad that you were not able to meet Mr. Sun when you were in Peiping recently for he is a very unusual man and I am sure would have enjoyed meeting, as you would have enjoyed meeting him. If I had known that you were to be in Peiping, I would have been only too glad to write Mr. Sun myself. One simply cannot trust Chinese in matters of this kind, as I have long ago discovered, and I have no doubt that the daughter for some reason, probably known only to herself, may have decided not to write at all. Perhaps I am unfair in this suspicion but from experiences of my own it is a natural one. Again thanking you for your helpful letter, 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 19, 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 Annie W. Goodrich Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/01316c33811bda3d95981ab3eb85dd8c.jpg b7aca8fc8d04cebb8520bf7998b35685 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 27 Folder 3 Alfred And Helen Tsai, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur F. Stearns, Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, December 1, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur F. Stearns, Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, December 1, 1927 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 December 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 Relation A related resource Dear Art: Thanks for your letter and the statements covering Tsai's extra expenses. I am enclosing check herewith to cover the latter. Yes, I did notice how much better Charlie not only speaks English but handles himself than his fellow countryman, Alfred. You have done a wonderful job with the former, and I hope in time that you will be able to get Alfred going, too, though I am well aware that his kiddishness seems still a bit irrepressible. Excuse a hasty note, but I am just trying to clear up my desk after several days' absence and it isn't any too easy a task. Affectionately yours, Arthur F. Stearns Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9e67542d590493e728d1e55887f5e6e3.jpg 6451fe3836836c46e248144717fe9682 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1257439d4c34cc3f46489b32377546e8.jpg 89e2b105a3454ae70d3e3ab9a3fec20b 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 (YMCA), New York City, September 15, 1926 (regarding Mary Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson (YMCA), New York City, September 15, 1926 (regarding Mary Sun) Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Robinson: I have been trying to find time to consider Mary's problem and answer properly your letter of September 11, but these opening days are hectic ones, with the office crowded every minute, and committee meetings, the last one terminating at midnight last night, more than fill the evening hours. I am trying to get hold of Charlie Sun and have wired him to call me on the phone so that I can discuss Mary's plans with him. I have also asked Mary to wire me the exact day on which she intended to leave for Elmira. If Charlie can accompany her, I shall be glad to have him go, though I am perfectly sure that Mary is capable of managing the journey alone and will even be inclined to resent a bit the suggestion that she needs a chaperone for the trip. If I can't get hold of Charlie or Arthur, therefore, I shall be disposed to let her go to Elmira alone, for she can doubtless go right through from Springfield with very little, if any changing of trains. I am enclosing a letter just received from Mary, so that you can see how she feels about the plans made for her. My feeling is that your plan is the wiser one for freshman year, at least, and I am writing Mary to this effect today. Mary enjoys immensely companionship with large groups of girls, but I am not sure that her work benefits from the contacts, though, on the whole, I don't think that she is inclined to abuse them. Anyway, the arrangements you have suggested with the Pitman family seem to me very attractive. I do hope I am going to have a chance to see you for something more than a brief and hurried visit before very long. Please let me know when you are likely to be in this vicinity again. 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 September 15, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/15035ef3941fcf5bd9484954f646788e.jpg 57664cd9b57237d8923ecc100dda8059 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f09454dc9596aa9b2f5c5fed1bc38b6c.jpg 679591385292cb59ded2e8f1b55d6539 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 (YMCA), St. Louis, Missouri, September 23, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson (YMCA), St. Louis, Missouri, September 23, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Robinson: Yesterday morning I received your special delivery letter of September 20, but, as I was just leaving town to place a new Chinese ward of mine in his school for the year, I have had no chance to reply until today. As it is, I am afraid I can't add much to my last letter. After visiting Elmira, your sister wired me that it seemed best to accept the dormitory plan, as this arrangement was vigorously endorsed by the college authorities. The next day I received a letter from the Registrar, urging very strongly that the dormitory arrangement be approved and stating that the proposed plan for a room in a private house outside was unusual and did not meet with the approval of the college authorities. Under the circumstances I could only wire your sister to approve the selection of the room assignment already made for Mary in a dormitory. A long letter received from Mary explains that her presence in Trenton over the week-end was due to the fact that she had to go to New York in any case to reach Elmira and would have to pass a night either there or somewhere near by on the journey. She felt, therefore, that it was not only proper but the wise thing to do to stay over the week-end with one of her school friends who lived in Trenton. I wrote her that I could not blame her for the decision but that I did blame her very severely for not keeping me fully posted as to her plans and movements, her failure to do so in this instance causing both you and myself serious anxiety and wholly unnecessary investment of time and labor. 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 September 23, 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/957a5950e917320c8013e28700f38bf4.jpg 21f32ac143dd0dd1f28f9ca0e9d8abb7 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d9bd8526806a81cfd32d878b0e3b5b84.jpg 51963f717f97ef529539942a3d705aad 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 January-June 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 Arthur G. Robinson, Kansas City, Missouri, January 28, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, Kansas City, Missouri, January 28, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Robinson: I have your letter of January 19 but have delayed my answer owing to my recent absence from home. Yes, Arthur Sun is working for the Metropolitan Water Company, a position there having been secured for him by the combined efforts of Mr. Freeman, Mr. Spencer Murray, and some of his Technology instructors. I hear from him constantly, and he seems to be enjoying and profiting by his work. He secured the position after he finally passed off his Tech examinations and became eligible for the coveted degree. I hope you will have a chance to see the children before you go back to China. Mary, as you know, is at Elmira College, but seemingly quite homesick and, according to her letters, eager to return to China next summer. Apparently her homesickness and discouragement are due almost wholly to the fact that she had always expected to be able to go back this year and has recently been told by her father that she was not to return until her college course had been completed. At about the same time Mr. Sun wrote Arthur urging him to remain still another year. This put Arthur "up in the air" also, and I think that the two youngsters have reacted on each other. Their letters to me, at least, have been distinctly distressing, and both have urged me to do what I could to get their father to relent. I imagine, though I may be wrong, that Mr. Sun is naturally loath to have the children return to China until conditions there have settled down a bit. Charlie is of course, at Amherst and Tom at Middlebury College. Just when their vacations come, I don't know but they will doubtless give you the information if you ask them direct. Frank Lin is still plugging away at Tech trying to win his degree, and Sheh is rounding out his final year at Bowdoin with a splendid record behind him. Faithfully 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 January 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 Arthur G. Robinson Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d8dc24a525476d1644c445fc9d75d136.jpg 94205b90337fa41c1d23cc511279ba5d 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 15, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, Kansas City, Missouri, October 15, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Robinson: I have just received your letter of October 11. Arthur has at last succeeded in passing off the deficiencies standing between him and his Technology degree. I understand that the formal presentation of that degree will take place in December. In the meantime, we are searching for a job, and, as I have been able to interest Mr. John R. Freeman and Mr. Spencer Murray, two of the most eminent engineers in the country. I ran hopeful that our efforts will erelong be crowned with success. Arthur has been out recently to talk things over with me, and we are working together on the proposition. I have written Mr. Sun very fully and in detail about the complications and difficulties of our problem in connection with Mary's start at Elmira. From my letter Mr. Sun will certainly be able to see how earnestly you sought to carry out his wishes, and I am sure that he can never blame you if anything that savored of a failure can be recorded. Very sincerely yours, AES/G 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 15, 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/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