337 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/456477ac9cf8879512b64e3f29c9209d.jpg b5673c5eb6199c2591d762170259d2f7 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c057644f57622758e83692d0825f129f.jpg 55416bf1e4e56d89656c7646684b1351 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 1927-1928, 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 William E. Souter, Chinese-Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns April 26, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from William E. Souter, Chinese-Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns April 26, 1928 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William E. Souter 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 26, 1928 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Shanghai, 26th April, 1928 Dear Dr. Stearns, I sent you a copy of the "World's Health" with an article in it mentioning Mr. C.Y. Sun. I thought you might be interested. It is the first publicity he has ever had, and even the sparing mention I made did not please him for he certainly practices not letting his left hand know what his right hand does. Mr. Sun, as I told you when in Andover, was a wealthy man but lost most of his money and has just enough to get along with: and what he has he is not sparing in putting all he can into charitable work. In addition he does not spare himself. He has been with me here for 4 months, away from home, and working voluntarily late and early on a relief-campaign in which his high organizing ability and unique personality counts for more than I can tell. He certainly is one of the most self-sacrificing man I have ever met. Please don’t mention that I have written you, for he much prefers to work quietly. Arthur is here in what looks to me like a real job. There is not much money in it but it is of real service to the struggling Nationalist Government. He likes his work and gets plenty of it. Arthur went to his home in Tientsin and a job was to be made for him by friends of his father (without his father’s knowledge) but the lad turned it down and, on his own, secured this position in Shanghai. My wife and I have him out to our home and will try to help him in his friendships here. Mr. Sun often tells me of how grateful he is to you for all your trouble and care with his children. You have the satisfaction of knowing that you are helping a man who is spending himself in service of the highest order in China. I often recall with my wife the happy day we spent with you in Andover and we trust you are having continued success in your work which I know from many sources ranks high on every count. Yours Sincerely William E. Souter We don't ever see Mr Sun's name on our heading paper holding any office although he is probably the most prominent man on the relief committee. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns William E. Souter https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bcdedb135dacc6741ed83eb881792eb8.jpg 0dfd3665b3d7f7492728bed6762da258 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 1927-1928, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 21, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 21, 1928 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 21, 1928 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource May 21,1928 Mr. C.Y.Sun 44 Cambridge Tientsin, China Dear Mr. Sun: Thank you for your letter of April 21. I shall give a good deal of thought to Mary’s problem before allowing her to make any radical changes in her present plans. In the meantime I shall, of course, take into most careful consideration all of the suggestions which you have so wisely offered. I do not think that you need to worry about Charlie seeking a military career, for I am sure that at heart the boy has no real talent or interest in that particular line. He ought not to have, in any case, unless he should find the profession a medium for doing so something really worth while economically, morally, and politically for his country, and the the history of the nations of the world reveals only too clearly the fact such rare leaders are few and far between. As I wrote in my letter to you of April 24, the remittance of $4,000, to which you refer, was duly received from the national City Bank of New York. The check came direct from the Bank without any other comment than that it was being forwarded at your request and so I acknowledged Its receipt at the time, February 4, 1928, direct to the Bank. The amount in question was deposited at once and to the credit of Charles, Thomas, and Mary which I assumed to have been your wish. With personal regards, believe me always Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/43b2175985081fbe5d9e961a298bb47a.jpg 017e87dd6f2658a49fb21c195f36b868 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 1927-1928, 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 April 21, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns April 21, 1928 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 April 21, 1928 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource My dear Dr.Stearns I thank you for your kind letter of the 17th, March which I have just received. I wrote you on the 27th.March and in that letter I think I spoke of what I have in mind about Mary and that I would leave it to your kind decision. From what you say about Mary being depressed etc. makes we wonder if her nervous state will be able to stand the strain of nursing work particularly in operations and dressing of wounds. If you couId try and influence Charlie away from his desire for a military career I would be very glad indeed. As to what you say about Norwich University I am glad to know it. What I wrote you came from the best American scholastic people here and it looks as if they need to have their records brought up to date. I am glad you share my views and judgment about Charlie and I hope he will be ready to give up the idea of a military career. It is very nice to know that Tommy is doing good work at Middlebury. As to Arthur I told you in my last letter about his taking up a position in Shanghai and being happy in his new work. He desires to be most kindly remembered to you. You do not mention it in your letter but I take it that the remittance which you should have received in January reached you safely. With cordial good wishes, I remain, Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8a7667fc7bcbfef3820d1318cb060bb3.jpg 8a8e49bb9cdcbd077a021b8e4a090e76 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cf51df2f12538052a2506d7dceff39f1.jpg 95e133d28f57ddf4b7051445a46c4089 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 1927-1928, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin April 24, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin April 24, 1928 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 24, 1928 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource April 24, 1928 C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: I have your letter of March 27. for which please accept my thanks. The remittance of $4,000.00, to which you refer, was duly received from the national City Bank of New York. As the check came direct from the Bank without any other comment than that it was being forwarded at your request, I acknowledged its receipt at the time, February 4, direct to the Bank. Evidently I should have mentioned this in my next letter to you, as well, though I assumed that evidence of the fact that the check had been duly delivered to me would come to you through the local branch office in Tientsin. The sum was divided, as usual, between the accounts of the three children, one-third to each. As to Mary’s further work, I am still troubled, but I shall not press the matter further until you have received and had a chance to consider carefully the suggestion offered by the Dean of Elmira College and which I forwarded to you in a recent letter under date of April 17. In at least two of my earlier letters I had expressed my interest in the nursing plan for Mary but had gathered that you would not be satisfied to have Mary take such a course. Dean Harris’s suggestion is apparently a voluntary one on her part, since I did not even know that Elmira College provided such an arrangement as she outlines. May I give herewith one paragraph which appears in a letter which I wrote you on March 17, last, and which will indicate definitely that I have had this matter in mind: Mary still plods along without much success in her studies and with an evident lack of enthusiastic interest in her work. Very little while I get distinctly depressed letter from her which prompts me to send her cheering and encouraging words, for she evidently needs to be strengthened in this way in her endeavor. Personally, I can't help regretting very deeply that it has not seemed wise to you to let Mary take a course at the Nurses Training School at Yale for example, a plan which has long Appealed deeply to her and in which she would seem to have a genuine interest. Evidently, too, she has some natural gifts for this sort of work, which, as I intimated in an earlier letters, is coming more and more in this country to be regarded as a high grade profession for women. The fact that Yale University has recently added the course to its regular graduate courses is indicative of the trend of sentiment. Perhaps I am wrong, but I can’t help feeling that Mary’s college degree, if she succeeds in reaching that goal, is not likely to prove of any special value to her in her later life. If she were a natural scholar and had been able to hold a higher rank in her studies, I might hold a different opinion. Of course I understand that you will be keenly disappointed if Mary returns to China without a regular college degree, even though I am inclined to think that many of the Chinese who are studying in this country are disposed to overemphasize the value of a college degree by itself alone. After all it should be what the degree stands for rather than the degree itself that counts. In Mary’s case it begins to seem as if the regular college degree was out of her reach, though it is difficult for me believe that she has not the actual ability to secure one. The Dean’s latest intimation that Mary might have to give up her college course at Elmira unless some readjustment in her course of study were made natural stirred my interest. I wrote at once to Mary begging her to bend every effort to avoid such a catastrophe, but I am not sure that she can do this now except possibly along some such line as Dean Harris suggests in the letter which I have sent you, and I know from recent letters that Mary has written me that she herself is thoroughly discouraged. I am urging her again to keep up her courage and do her best with the present tasks assigned her, at least until we hear further from you. Charlie and Tom both seem to be doing very well in their respective colleges. The records which come to me from time to time, and which I have forwarded to you, indicate eminently satisfactory progress. I do hope that I may be able later to send you better reports of Mary’s standing and progress as well. With kindest personal regards, Believe me, Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/07474e3402589997896652cae00fbf6d.jpg c4dc9e4b292fb006e74d3d75cc41ccd1 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 1927-1928, 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 March 27, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns March 27, 1928 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 March 27, 1928 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource 44 Cambridge Road, Tientsin, 27th.March,1928. My dear Dr.Stearns, I am writing this from Shanghai where I have been for the past three months. In a letter just received from Charlie he mentions that he had seen you and that you had spoken of having written me with the suggestion that Mary take up nursing. I have never received this letter from you or I would at once have written in regard to your kind suggestion. It has along been my desire that my children should return home with a College degree. If Mary does not remain in Elmira there seems to be no alternative but to take up nursing. I wrote her last year and mentioned domestic science, but I have not had a reply I also wrote again recently. Do you think desiging work would be a useful thing to take up? If Mary returns home without a college degree she will find it rather hard when she moves around among the returned students from America. However, I leave everything to your kind decision and I am very much indebted, to you for all the trouble you are taking. I am very sorry that your letter to me has gone astray somewhere and trust that you have not been put to inconvenience in this matter. With my thanks and best wishes, I am, Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun P.S. I have ordered a remittance or G. $4,000.00 through the National City Bank of New York from their Branch office in Tientsin which I hope has reached you in due course. C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9485330d4acda042dc75379811b08975.jpg c548e1abe1b3dba864571be7e8ab0458 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9ec5effdfe2d2d83a2d35aa8b2c67df6.jpg 26210a653ba02c4f35e7b5c6e28d835e 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 1927-1928, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin March 17, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin March 17, 1928 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 17, 1928 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource March 17. 1928 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: Many thanks for your good letter of "February 22 and for the accompanying copy of year letter to Charlie. I am inclined to share your judgment as to the wisdom of a military course for Charlie. Just why the boy leans that way, I can't understand, for he is anything but a militarist in spirit. He is naturally a scholar, idealistic, and with definite literary gifts. You are absolutely sound in your contention that what China needs today more than well trained generals is men who are trained to fill responsible positions in your government and Courts. Charlie would seem to admirably fitted by nature for this sort of work, and I shall urge very strongly on him the admirability of making that kind of a future his goal. Your judgment as to Norwich University, however, is not quite fair. West Point, of course, stands out preeminently as the best military college in the United States. Outside of West Point there are three or four institutions to which the Government extends aid and over which it exercises a certain amount of supervision because of the high caliber of the work done. Boys graduating from these institutions are granted by the Army definite credits, and many of them take high positions in the Amy and (government service in later life. In this limited group Norwich stands very high although it is a comparatively small institution and not often in the public eye. For a boy unable to gain admission to West Point I know of no institution that could probably give him a better military and all-round training than Norwich. Mary still plods along without much success in her studies and with an evident lack of enthusiastic interest in her work. Every little while I get a distinctly depressed letter from her which prompts me to send her cheering and encouraging words, for she evidently needs to be strengthened in this way in her endeavor. Personally, I can’t help regretting very deeply that it has not seemed wise to you to let Mary take a course at the Nurses Training School at Yale, for example, a plan which has long appealed deeply to her and in which she would seem to have a genuine interest. Evidently, too. She has some natural gifts for this sort of work which, as I intimated in an earlier letter, is coming more and more in this country to be regarded as a high grade profession for women. The fact that Yale University has recently added the course to its regular graduate courses is indicative of the trend of sentiment. Perhaps I am wrong, but I can’t help feeling that Mary’s collage career, beyond the final attainment of a college degree, if she succeeds in reaching that goal, is not likely to prove of any special value to her in her later life. If she were a natural scholar and had been able to hold a higher rank in her studies. I hold a different opinion. I hear little from Tom directly during the college year, but such reports as I get from time to time indicate that he has been giving a good account of himself at Middlebury College. Please remember me most warmly to Arthur who, I trust, is measuring up to your hopes and expectations for him, and believe me with kindest personal regard Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/272e5e535395054fb50344a6ebd85416.jpg dc8f5c3a6b5f8f1d6e01dd9d372f820f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/830337cb917412593e8013e832a35cff.jpg 5948c1a5607f66f0cde13ac4d858eaba https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/370b88066b58763d579a18282d437c54.jpg bca0fa34355732436dd00d46c0435fee https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ee3ae773132076f410d60113ea04b32f.jpg 2a1fada9d4cc2a546530cc299c4847cd 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 1927-1928, 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 February 22, 1928 (includes copy of letter from C.Y. Sun to Charlie Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns February 22, 1928 (includes copy of letter from C.Y. Sun to Charlie Sun) 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 February 22, 1928 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource 44 Cambridge Road, TIENTSIN, 22nd. February, 1928 My Dear Dr. Stearns, I wish to thank you most cordially for the picture of yourself you most kindly sent me. I am specially glad to have this picture for now I can see before me a friend who has done so much in looking after my children and in guiding them in the right way of life. Charlie wrote me last year that he wished to study military science but he later gave that up on account of it being too late for him to start in on the long years of training required. He then thought of a business training, but he also gave that up, and now he writes me expressing a desire to take up the study of military science and asking me to approve of this and an application to enter Norwich University. You will see from the enclosed copy-letter to Charlie that I am strongly opposed to his taking up military science, and unless he is altogether and entirely set in his desire I will not agree to it. My reasons are. 1. Charlie is too old to start such a long training. As for the Norwich University he speaks of Americans here in touch with scholastic things do not know the place at all. If it ever does come to a discussion of a suitable military training there is only one worth considering – West Point, but to enter this is a stiff work for it requires recommendation from the Chinese Government as well as an educational standard of about College graduate class, besides, I believe that now only one student of a foreign nation is admitted and even this is hard to get. 2. The military profession is a very unpopular one here, but even after years spent in training in America Charlie would come back here and require to spend, more years training before he could begin to be of any service while if he took up law or diplomatic work he would be ready as soon as he got back to China to give real service to his people and nation. The military life out here could throw a man with associates who certainly would not be of the same mind as Charlie and his high principles of life would not fit into military work in China. I feel sure he would be greatly disappointed and all his years of training would be wasted so far as his future career is concerned. 3. Charlie is of a quiet reticent nature with some literary bent. and I am sure this would better fit him for a career of law or diplomatic service and in this work there is a future before him in China with many many opportunities for service. My greatest desire is that Charlie would give up all thought of a military career and go in for the study of law or diplomacy. I would only agree to his study of military science if he persists in the matter, but if he does this I confess I do not quite know how to act. I thought he had for ever given up any desire for a military career, indeed he wrote me that he had,but again he returns to this and wants to go into some unknown college. I hope we can persuade him not to think of military science. I have tried to express my strong objections and if you will be so kind as to assist me by talking things over with Charlie I will be very grateful to you. If Charlie agrees to go in for law or diplomatic work I do not know if Amherst provides a suitable course, but if it does not, would you be so kind as to recommend a good school for this purpose. He could take up law alone if that suits him, indeed I could agree to almost any special study & training provided it is not that of military science, although I do think that our land needs good lawyers & judges as well as men trained in the science of government. Again thanking you for the kind thought in sending me your picture which I value highly, and hoping to have soon a favorable reply from you, I remain, Sincerely yours, 44 Cambridge Road, Tientsin, 21st, February 1928 Dear Charlie, In your letter of the 2nd January I see that after you have given up the idea and desire for business you now wish to take up the study of military science regardless of circumstances. All this is so far apart from your former thinking and opens up very real difficulties for you that I want you to reconsider the matter more fully. You know how Tommy gave up all thought of a military career because it was not at all suited to his Christian principles. and I am sure you want to take as firm a stand as Tommy on the question of high Christian principles. Whatever step you take now at your age will settle your future prospects for a life of service to our people and country. And I know you would not want to make a mistake for everything in the future for you depends on your wise thinking now. Think of the years of training you will have to take before you could qualify for a military degree that would be anything in China. You speak of a Norwich University but none of the Americans here who know the standard of college have ever heard of this Norwich University and in any case it would not be worth while thinking of any small college. The only place that is worth considering is West Point and they require a high scholastic standard before you can enter, besides West Point are hardly admitting any foreign students. I think it is one cadet from each foreign nation, and if there did happen to be a vacancy it would require a recommendation etc from the Chinese Government. Now even after the many years of hard training in America (which at your age makes a very difficult problem, for it may be too late) you would return to China and would then have to go in for more years of training in a junior job. You would also be with men who did not have your outlook on life or your high principles, and I am sure you would be very much disappointed at being in an unpopular work where you could not be of service to the people. You would find yourself out of sympathy with your colleagues with little or no opportunity for work of any high order. On the other hand if you took up a training for law or diplomacy you would be ready and able to take up a very useful service for the people and country as soon as you returned here. A soldier can be of service to the nation but without good law and government even the best soldier is not able to function or serve the people or country. The first need if for good men as lawyers and jusges also constructive work in the diplomatic and government service, and work of this kind ranks high in the estimation of all and you would find immediate opportunities for valuable service along these line as soon as you returned to China. Your study of political science would already be of some value to you in taking up the study of law or diplomatic service find your literary bent and your reticent nature would fit into such a study. You could of course take up law alone and if Amherst does not provide for such a course of study you could consult with Dr.Stearns. Dr. Stearns will advise as to & suitable college or university. After taking a degree in America I would be quite willing for you to go to say Oxford or Cambridge for a post graduate course with the object of taking a barristers degree in England. I have written this very fully for it concerns your future career, I want you to know why I am against you taking up a military career and why the study of law or diplomacy would suit you so much better and enable you to be of real and immediate service to our people and land. I would, only agree to your study of military science if you now persist strongly in the desire, and as I said before it would be a waste of time think of entering a small college. West point is the only place where your training and degree would count and I have also stated the difficulties of age and entrance etc. you would meet with in trying to enter West Point. C.Y.Sun Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cfdb9a605b5a9599fccaac16637c9730.jpg ff3517f6d0c1d3f4d5f57c9d19c627fb 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 1930-1932, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai June 26, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai June 26, 1930 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 26, 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 Relation A related resource June 26, 1930 Mr. C. T. Sun Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee 13 Jinkee Road Shanghai, China My dear Mr. Sun: I have read with the greatest interest your frank and friendly letter of May 27, and thank you heartily for it, and also for the friendly way in which you have accented my perhaps unwarranted suggestions as to Tom and Charlie and their futures. First, let me express my heartiest sympathy with you in the loss of your daughter. I shall say nothing to the children, of course, though as you say the news may naturally filter through to them by way of other channels. I am sorry indeed that you have had to carry this added burden after the load you have carried for so long in behalf of others. The latest plan for Tom, after further talks with him, is that he shall put in the current summer in the special summer school in French held each year at Middlebury College. This is one of the best modern language schools of its kind in this country, and I feel that Tom will be far better off in this old environment where he is so well adjusted than he would be if he were wandering about, or especially located in New York. In the fall he will go to Yale for his post-graduate work, unless, of course, something develops in the meantime to alter the plan by offering a more attractive opportunity elsewhere. It is doubtful, of course, whether I can hope to get him a position in our State Department, but I am willing to inquire of Secretary Stimson, who is a personal friend, and who just possibly may be able to give us some worth while advice. Again my thanks for your very kind and explicit letter, and with warm personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9ef65098867a9e3a84a7b6a7f555ef9d.jpg 2991b3ebdb7d12ee2b8ca86a0f71be6b https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/30edefb5788bd34ee0da9e8679f935ef.jpg 419ef8edac216cb84575e9282af76e0b https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7a1342bda9958dabfd03275338fbb51c.jpg 5a1e16d88e08eadf5ad0728ed0ad10d4 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5d86e4a27990c02f69b368e3626042be.jpg 2a3809b3d7c3b0e040d10f213aabaa58 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 1930-1932, 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, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns May 27, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns May 27, 1930 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 May 27, 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 Relation A related resource Shanghai, 27th. May 1930 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Phillips Academy Andover, Mass. U.S.A My dear Dr. Stearns, Your most kind and interesting letter of April 7 and 21 reached me, and I most heartily thank you for going so very fully, and with so much sympathy, into the problems relating to the educating of my children. I have just come to Shanghai for a much needed rest and change after a very sad and trying time at home for many months back. After a long spell of illness, with one sickness upon the top of another, I lost my 3rd daughter. We had the very best attention for her including night and day nurses, but she wished me near her most of the time. The constant attention required of me when I was in poor health myself, and the fact that I was the only member of the family that knew there was no hope for my daughter's recovery, just wore me down, and I had no time, or even thought, for anything else. This is the reason I did not feel able to even try to meet Dean Goodrich. It was not Mary’s fault, for she did write me that the Dean was coming to China, but I was entirely taken up with my sick daughter to the exclusion of every other thing, indeed I quite forgot all about Mary’s letter. I am sure you will understand, and if you get a chance to explain to Dean Goodrich, please tender his my apologies, I very much regret that the special circumstances prevented me from making arrangements to meet him. And it would be a favor if nothing was said to Mary or Tommy. It is of course possible that the news of my daughter’s death will filter through to them, but my thought opportunity for him to do some hard work in preparation for his coming course at Yale. I have given due consideration to your very kind and thoughtful words about Tommy’s popularity, with the danger of his taking on so much of American ideas & ways so as to possibly hamper his future readjustment to the life and atmosphere in China. A father naturally appreciates very very much all the kind things you tell me of the large place Tommy has made for himself in Middlebury College, but he will soon be thinking of leaving all his kind friends there and meeting the new conditions among strangers at Yale. This will be a new angle in mixing with men and should work out for good. Now, as to your suggestion that I might think over the possibility of Tommy taking a year at home in China before pressing on with his further studies in America. From a practical point of view, I do not think it feasible, for the pull of family-ties, and probably his own disinclination to tackle his further studies after a year's break, would, I am sure, mean the end of his ever going back to America. And, after all, will his waiting for another year or so in America to undertake his specialized studies make much difference to the question of his readjustment to his life and work in China? Tommy is young enough to successfully face this question after his Yale course of special study. All things considered, I feel he should carry on from Middlebury to his Yale course and attain to proficiency in the work he is going to specialize in on his return home. I trust my viewpoint on this meets with your acceptance, for like you, I have tried to look at the problem all round, keeping in mind particularly Tommy’s future when he sets out to find his feet in China. I thank you for your statements of account for Mary & Tommy and covering the period from October 8, 1929 to April 21, 1930. I am very glad to hear that you think the necessary repairs can be made to the blackwood-stand. Please have this done at my expense, and I shall be glad to hear from you that the repairs have been done in entirely satisfactory manner. It is not easy for me to express my gratutude, as I would like, for these two letters of yours, so clear and asympathetic and yet well covering the whole ground. I always feel that I never succeed in expressing what my heart feels of very grateful thanks for your large personal interest in my children. With kindest regards and most cordial good wishes, I am, Yours very sincerely, C.Y.Sun C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3f591725804547f7ba5238cd0d156ea2.jpg e2b768934f02dacfa837b48381cdc6b3 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/77550dff7e3d8ac4681d23db436922b2.jpg 3e9e6d056c5268d8e4383edb804f5b36 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 1930-1932, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin April 7, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin April 7, 1930 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 7, 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 Relation A related resource April 7, 1930 Mr. C.Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: Your letter of February 18 reached me just before my return from a recent and somewhat hurried trip to England. Since that time. I have been more than crowded with work here and my answer to you has in consequence been delayed. Please accept my apologies for tho delay. What you write me of the attitude in China usually assumed towards a higher degree is most interesting and confirms thet impression I had already formed on that subject. Under the circumstances, I can readily understand why you should wish Charlie to secure as much outward evidence as possible of hit attainments and progress in America. On the other hand, I am still of the opinion that some of the returned students, at least, have leaned too heavily on the degrees that they carried back home with them and have allowed the fact of their possession to curtail their own initiative and effort in lines of active and worth while service. Whether Charlies has higher degrees or not, I am sure that he will give a good account of himself and more than realize your high ambitions for him in his later life and work. I had several delightful little visits with him in London, and have heard from him once since my return to America. In my judgment, he will enjoy and gain increasingly from the life and work in London, even thought he found both a bit distasteful at the start. I have only recently had an interview with Tom who came down to talk over his problems with me. At present it is a bit difficult to know just what to advise him, but we are making inquiries of several of the leading universities, including Harvard, to discover if possible where the best courses in government administration, international law, etc. can be found. If this plan does not work out to our complete satisfaction, there is a chance, of course, that I might be able to get Tom a temporary position in one of our own government offices, though of course I cannot promise this, ae I am not sure just how far such procedure would be in conformity with the customary practices in offices of this kind. I shall be only too ready and glad, however, to investigate and discover what can be done. Frankly, I am a little worried about Tom lest his success and unusual popularity at Middlebury College leave him in a position where he will find it extremely difficult to readjust himself to conditions and life at home after his return. I have seen similar developments in the case of one or of my Chinese wards and in those cases have been led to feel that the stay in America had been prolonged a bit too long for their own individual good. Tom himself feels that the change is going to be a very severe one to meet and I am sure that he is right. This is in no sense a reflection on him or his spirit, but an inevitable situation which confronts a boy who becomes thoroughly imbued with American ideas and takes naturally to our free American ways, winning as he goes along the confidence and good will or his American school and college friends. Tom has done this to an unusual degree and hence the problem becomes more acute in his case. I cannot help wondering whether in view of this situation it might not be well for Tom to have a year in China in order to get back a little more into the spirit and atmosphere of his own people before he goes further with his work in America. I have not said a word to Tom about this myself, but since his last visit, I have been more than ever impressed with the nature of the problem which the boy is bound to face and which I can see is already causing him some inward uneasiness. I am just thinking out loud, as it were, to you, and am not prepared to recommend what course you should pursue, since that naturally is a matter for you and not for me to determine. The fact it I am not altogether clear myself as to what would perhaps be the wisest thing to do. Please don’t worry about the carved black wood which forms the base for the lovely piece of jade you sent me recently. The break in the wood is of such a character that I am sure it can be mended without revealing its impairment. Madame Sze kindly delivered the jade to my boy in New York, from whom I received it recently and brought it home. I can’t tell you how deeply I value it and how thoroughly I appreciate your generous thought in sending it to me. Mary writes me enthusiastically of her work at New Haven, and gives me a most interesting and amusing account of her experiences in practical nursing, something required as part of the regular course of all those who are at the Yale School of nursing. The remittance to which you refer of three thousand dollar has not as yet reached me, but doubtless will in due time. Both Mary and Tom have surpluses to their credit on their accounts, so that I am not worrying on this score. with warm personal regards, and sincere good wishes, believe me Very sincerely yours C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns