35 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bc24c23081a1c11e45bbe92063c878f5.jpg 437a648fbd7e74eeeb4a5a0d4041fe31 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 1929, 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 12, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin April 12, 1929 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 12, 1929 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 12, 1929 Mr. C. Y. Sun 144 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun, I have just received a most interesting and cheering letter from the Dean of the Yale Nursing School in regard to Mary’s work and recent progress. While Mary is still finding some difficulty with one or two of her subjects, the Dean reports that she has done distinctly better of late, and even better than she herself had supposed would be possible. She feels very much encouraged, therefore, as to Mary's future, and assures me that she takes great pleasure in sending this distinctly better report. I am passing this on to you since I know how keenly you will appreciate the news. I have also written Mary, congratulating her and expressing the hope that she would be spurred to still greater effort and achievement. With kindest regards and trusting that by this time your health is greatly improved, believe me Very sincerely yours. AES/C 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/4c1c30b54462b846fd083d2caecc5e7e.jpg d6e2a244ec8c843e27b88d28e97667c0 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 1929, 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, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin April 24, 1929 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, 1929 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Sun: Charlie writes me quite happily that he has definitely decided to return to his home this coming summer and has written you to that effect. My purpose now in writing you is merely to thank you for your decision to allow the boy to return, and to express my personal conviction that the decision is eminently wise. Of all the Chinese boys whom it has been my privilege to meet and deal with during the last thirty years, none has more fully won my confidence and good will than has Charlie. As I have watched him in his college course, I have been a little disappointed that the boy has not been able to enter more actively into the general life of the college, but this has been due evidently to the seriousness with which he has taken his responsibilities and the very earnest way in which he has gone at his studies. For the past year, the boy has seemed to me a bit fagged. In this country, we would be accustomed to use the expression as applicable to him of having "gone a bit stale". In other words, he seems a little tired mentally and physically, and I am sure that he will profit in the end by going home at the close of his college career this summer even if it should be deemed wise for him to return later for post-graduate work. Tom seems to be going along smoothly in his work at Middlebury, and the last report that I have had about Mary was a decidedly encouraging one, as I wrote you at the time. I watch with keen interest such fragmentary reports as we are able to get in this country of the conditions and developments in China. What a wonderful thing it will be for China and for the world when a stable and responsible government once gets authoritative control and the days of war lords and adventurers can be regarded as belonging wholly to the past. It is my sincere hope that this day may speedily come and that perhaps some of our old Andover boys may play their effective parts in bringing about this happy outcome. With kind personal regards, and trusting that your health is steadily improving, believe me Very sincerely yours, 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f3ac17a399e101e93df2b4b6910f24ba.jpg 257710919261ce9c332b512bb2beb1b3 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a8aac21ccc3f5a66428179fc565ef20d.jpg bfcab126ab38f6a8653059352dcc4dac 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 December 13, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin December 13, 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 December 13, 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 December 13, 1928 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: Let me thank you for your letter of November 14, which has just reached me. I am forwarding the enclosed letter written by you to Mary to Mary at her New Haven address, and I have read with keen interest the copy which you were good enough to send to me. I hope with all my heart that this most recent experience may prove of constructive value to Mary in bringing her to realize a little more clearly her responsibilities and in developing within her a clearer perception of her proper obligations to you. So far as I am concerned, I shall count any anxiety or trouble I may have suffered through Mary’s actions as more than worth while if the results are indicative of stronger character and higher ideals for living for her. I have only recently been in correspondence with the Dean of the Yale University School of Nursing in order to find out just how Mary is getting along and what her prospects are for a successful career in her chosen line. From what the Dean writes me, I imagine that the freshman year is the hardest in that it embraces a good deal of book work in Anatomy, physiology, Psychology, etc., some of which apparently does not come easy to Mary, though I understand that she is maintaining an excellent standing in Chemistry and Anatomy. The Dean seems to feel that she will do better in Psychology and Physiology as she becomes better acquainted with the work. If she is able to secure eventually a good standing in her work. I have no doubt that she will give an increasingly better account of herself as she indulges in the more practical work which is to come later. Charlies and Tom seem both to be going along in a very satisfactory way. Only this morning, I had nice letter from Charlie telling me of his plans for the Christmas holidays and the general character of his work and life this year. Tom’s college record to date has been on the whole much letter than I anticipated it would be when first entered college. The vacations are naturally difficult times for the children, and I only regret that my own situation is such that I cannot offer them the full friendly privileges of my home as I was able to do in the earliest yours of their stay in this country. Again let me assure you of my appreciation of the spirit in which you have always cooperated in every endeavor I have put forth in the best interests of the children. May I express, too, along with my heartiest and friendliest Christmas and New Year greetings, the hope that you will have completely recovered by the time this letter reaches you from the sickness from which you were suffering when you wrote me your last letter on November 14. Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/59944c532bc20e5fe8dd575bd24be252.jpg 3c0546c10a8ac0da572f3cc5dcaf0887 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 1929, 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 December 2, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin December 2, 1929 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 2, 1929 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 Mr. Sun: I have just received your letter of November 6 and note your request in regard to additional funds for Charlie. As Charlie has already sailed for England, and indeed is now doubtless in London, I will see that a draft on London is forwarded to him covering the balance of his account to date. In addition to the necessary passage money, I had already given Charlie a sum that would enable him to meet early and needed expenses in his new environment. The exact balance remaining, I cannot state at the moment, as my account books are at my house and I am writing from my office. I will send you a memorandum later, however, indicating the amount transferred to Charlie in accordance with your instructions. With kindest regards and the greetings of the Christmas season, believe me Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4c9c49e0c8dff62130b0e6639e2115a0.jpg b9bfbc8568ddff99fe6031565fdfcbe6 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b09921ec563201185f4c46a055d986fb.jpg 08437b5afe18277adb417b538f5d2cfa https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/db8f16f34ec2ebf90e21378dbf057110.jpg a6292f7129efc9ccdf99b528f785df64 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 1929, 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 December 27, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin December 27, 1929 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 27, 1929 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 Mr. Sun: First let me thank you and most warmly for your generous Christmas gifts. Mary sent me the embroidered hangings and Tom forwarded from Middlebury the small silver plates and the carved piece. The exact nature of the last I regret to say I am not able to determine, for the bottom piece had been broken completely off in transit and whatever was inserted in the semi-circular arms at the top had entirely disappeared. I am writing Tom to find out if I can whether these losses occurred after the box left him or some where earlier transit. If the former, it is just possible that I may be able to secure some restitution from the express company, though I am rather doubtful about it. Nonetheless, I am just as appreciative of and just as grateful for your exceptionally generous thought, so please don't allow the fact that the goods were damaged to worry you for a moment. You have already done far more than was necessary or expected by way of showing your appreciation of what little I have tried to do for your children. The deepest satisfaction that has come to me from the whole process has been the evidences that have been steadily increasing in recent years of the development in the youngsters, if I may still call them that, of poise and character and purpose that seemingly have more than justified your investments in their behalf and in realizing more fully as the days go on your hopes and ambitions for them. In this connection, I do wish that I could just sit down with you and discuss frankly face to face some of the questions that are now confronting us in connection with the further education of the children, Charlie and Tom especially. I have recently talked with both of them, and Charlie has written me several letters since he reached the Legation in London. Both of the boys have been developing remarkably well in my judgment. I always expected as much from Charlie, but was a little puzzled at first about Tom, as it seemed to take him longer to find his footing and develop a serious purpose. His record at Middlebury, however, has been one of steady gain, and in a talk I had with him only a few days ago when he came out and had lunch with me, I was more than ever impressed with the boy’s increased maturity, judgment, and his sensible viewpoints on many of his problem. Just at present I am truly worried about Charlie. The boy is naturally homesick, and we must make reasonable allowance for that. On the other hand, even before he left this country, he was inclined to be a bit morose and discouraged, a tendency which seems to have been growing on him and to regard his future with anxiety, if not actual apprehension. We cannot afford to allow the boy to continue in this mood, which in a more active stage would mean the definite undermining of his future development, if not actually something more dangerous. Charlie has so much ability and such fine traits of character that we must guard against the possibility of placing him in a position where these cannot have their fullest and finest play. Just at the moment the boy is thoroughly disheartened at the prospect of having to work for a degree of some kind outside of and in addition to his duties at the Legation. Charlie himself feels that the combination is altogether too much for him to handle satisfactorily. Personally, I cannot help feeling that he is probably right. Nor can he appreciate just what value is to attach to the added decree even if he were to get it. Neither can I. Frankly, I'm convinced that most of the Chinese boys who have come to this country and have pursued that intellectual will-o-the-wisp termed a degree for the sake of the degree alone - and scores of them have done this - have been far more injured than benefited in the process. A good many of us here in America are coming to look with increasing suspicion on some of the degrees sought for and frequently secured by our own students. I myself, and the same may be said of most of my headmaster friends in our our beet American boarding schools are far less likely to take a man on to our teaching force who has done special work for a degree than we are one who has not. In other words, this specialized study has generally lessened the ability of the individual to do the high and broad grade of work that we desire. I have found from my many years’ experience in dealing with these Chinese boys and their parents that my good friends in China seen to have, from point of view, a distorted and altogether too exalted a view of the value of a degree in itself, and I have not hesitated to argue with them on this proposition and to state frankly my opinion. I should not be a good friend if I did otherwise, and it is only because I wish to play the part of an absolute friend with you and your children that I am venturing to speak with such frankness now. Whatever work Charlie, or Tom either, for that matter, can do to strengthen his knowledge and broaden his viewpoints, with special reference to the kind of work which he is going to do in later life, the better for them. If a degree come naturally in this process, there is little to criticize, but the work and development are the main thing and not the degree, and I am perfectly sure that those who are eventually to lead China out of her present chaotic condition and to help put her in her proper and deserved place as a nation are not going to be those who have labored primarily for degrees in foreign institutions. The foreign training, the foreign contacts ought to prove tremendous assets to the Chinese leaders of the coming generation. Degrees in themselves will mean nothing. I may have interpreted absolutely wrongly your attitude towards and ambitions for the boys. If so, you will pardon I know this unnecessary and perhaps uncalled for expression of opinion on my part. I could hardly have a less sincere and deep interest in their development, however, if they were my own sons, for they have been, as it were, a part of my family circle now for a good many years and I am tremendously interested in them and in their future. I wish it might be possible for them to take a little breathing space in the American education in the shape of a vacation trip home, even though the visit might necessarily be very limited in time, and talk over with you in person their problems and future plans. If that is not practicable, we will try our best to work them out over here. Please understand always that my suggestions are suggestions only and that I am always ready to carry out so far as I can your instructions and to help you realize your ambitions. These necessarily take precedence over any of my own and that fact I clearly understand. Knowing your general ambition for the children, however, I cannot help wondering at times whether the best procedure is being adopted for the attainment of the high goal which you hold for them. It is only that questioning which justifies me in offering anything savoring of suggestion or advice. Trusting that you will fully appreciate the spirit which prompts me to write with such great frankness. and that you will not label me an intruder because I have done so, and with heartiest New Year's greetings and good wishes to you and yours, believe me Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3616c90a1b723e576ce2ea0e952f3a15.jpg 1691da2e8632277bdf13f2e197efa1d6 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 February 27, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin February 27, 1931 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 February 27, 1931 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 February 27, 1931 Mr. C.Y.Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: Several weeks ago I received from London a draft for three thousand dollars, which I assumed was from you, but as the letter form the National City Bank of New York which accompanied the draft did not specify definitely the sender, I wrote to London to check up. Yesterday I received their reply, stating that I was right in my supposition that the dollar draft referred to was for your account. Consequently, I have credited the sum in question, one-half each, to the accounts of Mary and Tom. I am taking the liberty, also, of enclosing statements of their accounts to date. As you will note, each has a generous balance. Apparently Mary doesn’t care to take the European trip before returning to China, but desires very much to start for home as soon as she completes her work and receives her degree at Yale. Evidently Tom, too, has reached the point where his homesickness is likely to interfere a good bit with his progress in his studies. No doubt this is accentuated a bit at the present time as the boy realizes that his sister is going home so soon. I can’t help feeling, though, and very strongly from what I have seen of and heard from Tom in recent months that even if he were to continue his postgraduate work for the next year or two, a short visit home this summer would be of inestimable value to him and would give him a real and much needed freshening up. Viewing the situation only from my own personal angle and hence perhaps in a limited way, I can’t help feeling that it would be wonderful thing if Tom could accompany his sister home this coming summer, even if he were to return to America later. With every best wish to you and yours, and warm personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/28483cfdb013b0af257ab7a72affb795.jpg 646aafece4a5538c08519ce2e0297ab9 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 1929, 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 February 28, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin February 28, 1929 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 February 28, 1929 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 February 26. 1929 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: I am writing to acknowledge the receipt, through the National City Bank of New York, of the sum of $4.000.00 from you which I am placing to the credit of the account, of Charles, Tom, and Mary in equal amounts. The reports received from the boys thus far this year have been highly gratifying. Mary's record still troubles me, and I have had some very frank correspondence with her dean at the Yale Nursing school to discover, if possible, just where the trouble lies. Apparently Mary finds some of the subjects which she has to study in connection with her work very difficult, though she seems perfectly competent to handle the practical end of her tasks. Mary herself feels that she will be able to improve her work as she becomes better acquainted with the subjects on her schedule, and I am hopeful that this will prove true and that I shall be able, therefore,to send you more encouraging reports before the year is over. with kindest personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours. AES/c C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c32ea13b4827113ec1c5b71e550aa321.jpg be10c9442a79a157169ed7c602bd09d2 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 January 11, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin January 11, 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 January 11, 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 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: Thank you for your good letter of December 18, which has reached me only this morning. Charlies writes me frequently and evidently is finding the adjustments in England a bit difficult at the start. This is to be expected, of course. The boy has been homesick and I imagine that his Christmas season was particularly difficult for this reason. I have written him several letters, however, endeavoring to the best of my ability to cheer him up. The last two letters that have come from him bear evidence that the hardest period in the new surroundings has passed. We are having real winter here too, though apparently we have not suffered to anything like the extent to which you in China have. From the newspaper reports I imagine you are experiencing one of the hardest winters in many years. Please accept heartiest New Year’s greetings and every best wish to you and yours for the days ahead. Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns