38 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/80490951d723f3d7bbc8f3f67d9de50e.jpg f71761814df4f3983b78f547d1eb8c54 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 25, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin April 25, 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 April 25, 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 April 24, 1931 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China Dear Mr. Sun: Thank you for your good letter of April 2. It has just reached my desk after having made seemly an unusually fast trip to the States. I have written Mary telling her of your decision that she is to return direct to China without going to Europe, though I imagine you have already yourself sent her this information. I have also told her that I am ready and I shall be glad to arrange at once for the proper reservations as soon as she tells me when she will be ready to sail. She spoke in a recent letter of desiring to go on the same boat with some good friends of hers and hence I imagine she has definite ideas of the boat and time of mailing. I will see also that she has not only the necessary passage money but the additional one thousand dollars as requested. I am disappointed, naturally, at your decision in regard to Tom who I very much fear may not so fully as you anticipate realize your ambitions by remaining in this country. Tom has been pretty desperately homesick and a bit discouraged since his graduation from Middlebury, where he did so well and stood so high in the estimation of his many friends. It is not for me, however, to dispute your judgement or question your vision. I shall do everything in my power to encourage Tom to put his best effort into the work before him and to justify your high hopes in his behalf. My great fear is that by his long continued stay here, Tom will have grown so far away from his own country, its customs, traditions, and ideals, as to render him less efficient when he does return for the high service he ought to be able to render. Perhaps my fears are ill-founded. I hope so, anyway. With renewed assurances of my esteem and friendliest greetings to you and the other members of your family circle, believe me Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f655a0d90d27f2ae7c0ced2c68faa718.jpg 77ea1c54f605d777f4c249b745d3e2b9 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, December 28, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, December 28, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Please accept my very hearty thanks for your moot generous and wonderfully beautiful Christmas present. The lacquer vases were forwarded to me by Minister Sze, with a note saying that they had been sent at your request. They are about as attractive as anything that ever came into my house and will be much admired by those who see them. To me, however, beside their intrinsic beauty with its natural appeal, there will always be the stronger attraction based on the friend and the friendly thought back of them. I have heard from or seen all of the children at various times during the Christmas holiday season. Arthur is working at his new position and wrote me only a day or two ago from Amherst, where he had gone to get a glimpse of Charlie and also in the hope of seeing Mary, too, at Springfield, where the latter is visiting one of her school friends. I had a nice letter from her only this morning, and she seems happy and well. The morning’s mail brings me also a letter from Charlie who has Just returned to Amherst after a brief visit to New York. The big city does not appeal to him at all, and he writes me that he will not again leave the college town when vacation comes. Tom came through his first term at Middlebury College with a much better record than I anticipated. He stopped off here for a couple of days at the beginning of the vacation and is now visiting Frank Lin in Cambridge where he also has a chance to see Arthur from time to time. Altogether all four of the children seem to be making pretty steady and even progress this year. An invitation to speak to the girls at Elmira College, which I accepted a few weeks ago gave me a good opportunity to see Mary and look over the situation at her college. She tells me that she finds some of her work rather difficult, but her teachers seem to think that she is going to be able to master these difficulties and handle the course satisfactorily. She seems to have made some good friends, too, and to have fitted nicely into the college life. Please accept again my thanks for your many kindnesses to me and my heartiest good wishes to you and yours for a happy, healthful, and prosperous new year. Sincerely and gratefully 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 December 28, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2ce655992cfd55439e7f3b19db8e100a.jpg de4d93b9ff0c3d844d4e99de74314422 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, January 30, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, January 30, 1930 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: I have taken the liberty of giving this letter of introduction to my good friends, Mr. Carl H. Elmore and his wife, of Englewood, New Jersey. Dr. Elmore is pastor of one of the largest and most active churches in Englewood,- a church with which many of our Andover boys have been associated, and now attended by many of their fathers. He has also been a regular preacher at Phillips Academy and is a warm friend of the school. I shall appreciate very deeply any courtesy which you may be willing to extend to Dr. and Mrs. Elmore if they happen to be in your vicinity and have the privilege of meeting you. 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 January 30, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4cfe02d51c545366da4f8f88b9a6ba69.jpg d6b5a8d3f24355aff459a292db27d8c6 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, November 4, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, November 4, 1930 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: It has occurred to me that in the pressure of work at the opening of our school year I may have neglected to send you direct acknowledgment of the receipt of your last remittance of three thousand dollars which reached me on August 25 last, and which was deposited as requested, one half each to the accounts of Mary and Thomas. Sometimes the remittances come in such form as to assure me that the formal receipts which the bank asks me to sign in due season reach you or your bank. This may not always be true, however, and hence I mean to take the added precaution of sending you myself notice that the money has come. The children seem to be progressing well. Mary is nearing her graduation at the Yale Nursing School, and I am sure she must be looking forward eagerly to the chance to see her homeland in the not distant future. I assume that she is to return shortly after her graduation, though I shall await definite advice from you on this point. Tom is, as you know, at New Haven, taking post-graduate work at Yale, he finds the life in a big university and a big city very different from that of the quiet country town and small New England college with which he has been associated for the last four years, and where he made a big place for himself in the esteem and affection of students, faculty, and townspeople alike. His letters have a note of discouragement, but I have a feeling that he will gradually become adjusted to the new conditions and find life increasingly pleasant as a result. Charlie writes me from time to time, and his letters always bring me a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction. He seems also less homesick than during the first months of his London experience. With kindest personal regards, believe me always Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 4, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/de7350f33ea533a37d90da1829e43876.jpg 1e9d9ed9f16cecd3cf273826ebae8052 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bc9668d7595d7b33f2542a4aba1ae923.jpg 5d162be40b7ed97fd9bc0fef3bc75d40 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 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 17, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, April 17, 1928 Relation A related resource My Dear Mr. Sun: A short time ago I received word from the Dean of Elmira College that Mary's work in at least two subjects was very unsatisfactory and that her status in the college was consequently precarious. I wrote at once to the dean and asked for a frank analysis of the situation as the college authorities viewed it, and I am enclosing herewith a copy of the Dean's reply. Mary's case has worried me a good bit for some time. Early in the year she wrote me a letter, prompted evidently by her dissatisfaction with her work and distress over the situation in general. It has been my feeling that Mary has plenty of ability to meet the college demands, even on the basis of her present schedule of work, but that her utter lack of interest in most of the subjects she is taking and her failure to find in the general college course that which she believes will be of value to her in later life have completely undermined her ambition and that without that ambition progress has been rendered practically impossible. I still feel that, if Mary’s interest in nursing, for example, could be encouraged and permission given her to shape her work along that general line, it would mean a complete change in the picture, and for the better. Dean Harris evidently shares my views, though I do not recall that I have ever discussed this particular phase of the matter with her; nor did I know before that Elmira College provided a course of this kind. Very probably Mary herself may have told the Dean of her ambition, though I can only guess as to that. As I view the matter now, it looks very much as if the college authorities would feel that Mary's work did not justify them in allowing her to return her membership in the college much longer and complete the college course and graduate. Frankly, I should be very anxious as to the effect on Mary of a forced termination of the college career. Such a distressing outcome should be avoided if possible, and I am beginning to wonder whether that can be done without altering completely Mary's present course of study and allowing her to choose a different goal and one more in accord with her natural tastes and ability. I shall, of course, accept your judgment in the matter and urge Mary, as I have always done in the past, to abide by your wishes and do her best to justify your hope; but these latest reports from Elmira naturally make me anxious and lead me to wonder whether we are handling the case to the best advantage of all concerned. May I rely on you to advise me frankly on receipt of this letter just what I ought to do under the circumstances. Please give my warmest regards to Arthur, and believe me with constant good will. 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 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b741f70d76fe5c1bb03fae08d7b0b242.jpg 2f9174f6d82778a140855f920cd45bce https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3bc103205c1cb32c4202ff83b354a387.jpg 8335c2fd15a9503982e39f1d796b99f9 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, April 21, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, April 21, 1930 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: I have received from the Dean of the Yale University School of Nursing, in response to my recent request, the following statement: "Miss Sun does not complete her course until February, 1931. Furthermore, she will not receive her degree until the following June at the regular Yale Commencement exercises. The University desires whenever it is at all possible that the students should receive their degrees at this time, and the School of Nursing very much prefers to have them do this." I take it from the above that you will wish Mary to remain until her course here is completed next year, even though you may not care to have her stay for the actual awarding of the degree in June. I should myself, however, desire to have her present at the degree awarding if this proves practicable, though I am not prepared to urge that point. Undoubtedly she would find plenty to keep her busy along the lines of her regular work from February to June should she remain for the commencement exercises. Dean Goodrich adds the following also: "In case Mr. Sun desires his daughter to return to China during the vacation months, I think I should also inform you that our vacation periods extend over a month only which would not enable her to make the trip, nor do I believe in her case particularly it would be advisable to give her an extended leave of absence." My impression is that you would not wish Mary to return merely for a brief vacation with only a year of work ahead of her here and the prospect of returning to China for good at the end of that period. I shall await further instructions from you, however, before making any definite report to the Yale Nursing School authorities. Dean Goodrich adds further: "You will be, I am sure, glad to know that on the whole Miss Sun is doing very well. She has made up all but one of her deficiencies, and in the practical field she compares well with the other students." At the end of the letter Dean Goodrich says, "I have recently returned from a trip to the Orient, I had hoped that Mr. Sun would get in touch with me while in Peiping, as I understood his daughter had written him, but such was not the case." I am sorry indeed that you did not have this opportunity to talk with Dean Goodrich in person, for I am sure that you would have welcomed the chance to secure this first-hand and intimate information about Mary and her work and progress at the Yale School of Nursing. Evidently Mary must have carelessly forgotten to write you. I am enclosing a statement of the accounts of Tom and Mary to date. Your last remittance of three thousand dollars came to the Andover bank the latter part of February while I was abroad. It was credited to my account there, though I did not learn until a few days ago that the money had been received, and hence I had not entered it on the accounts of the children. This, however, has now been done, and the enclosed statement shows the accounts, including the remittance in question. Tom has recently been making inquiries at both Harvard and Yale, and apparently has found at the latter institution the courses in Economics, International Law, Government, etc., which he desires. I think it more than likely, therefore, that we shall decide to let him continue his graduate studies at Yale for the coming year. With kindest personal regards, believe me always Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 21, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/92b631cfbd69a4d33aa03e95237a7efe.jpg 83b86e7b7c31be530a5859d2ee8f76d9 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, August 26, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, August 26, 1930 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: I am writing to acknowledge the receipt from the London office of the National City Bank of New York of a draft on New York for three thousand dollars to be credited to the accounts of Mary and Thomas. I am crediting these accounts fifteen hundred dollars each, and have sent my acknowledgment of the receipt of the draft to the London office of the National City Bank. I am in Andover for the day only, and hence am sending a brief note. So far as I can judge, both Mary and Tom are well, busy, and happy during these summer months. I am hoping that Tom is going to gain much from the coming year at New Haven, and am glad, also, to feel that he will be in closer touch with his sister. With kindest regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6a60abe89103057c65fad22b63ec3f9c.jpg ad0b581762a149553f663108eca8c5f8 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, February 7, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, February 7, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: I am enclosing statements of the accounts of the children up to January 20. I have carried them to this date so as to include the latest remittance of $1,000.00 received from you at that time. As I have already explained, these accounts do not carry the details which were regularly included in the earlier statements, owing to the fact that I have recently, and since the children have moved farther away for their education, handed them lump sums to be banked and drawn on as occasions arose. I have asked them to keep careful accounts of these expenditures, which they have done, and these as well as other receipts will be sent to you if you so desire. Indeed I have filed receipts for all expenditures made by me ever since the children first arrived but have not felt that you would necessarily care to be bothered with them. If you should desire to have them, however, I shall be glad to take steps to have them forwarded to you. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource February 7, 1927 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 7, 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 C.Y. Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bbf953b7f1c5ee719683481d683d4c3b.jpg c233dc3d10b059c9ccac033794f9113a https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b3f95f61e237fc9fbda1c6b72734cfe8.jpg d724f5c168ac3fb5ca5b03b4d1f8b167 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, October 15, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, October 15, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: I am enclosing a report which I have just received from the Sea Pines School which Mary attended during the past summer months and which I am sure will please you. Mary evidently did her best to make the most of the opportunities offered her at the school, and the report indicates how well she seemingly succeeded. The last word I had from her from Elmira was to the effect that she was busily engaged in her new work and happy in the new life and contacts. I hope to see her early in December, as I accepted an invitation to preach at the college at that time, and chiefly that I might have this chance to see for myself how things were going. Arthur writes me that he has finally succeeded in passing off the last of the requirements that have stood between him and his degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is good news indeed, and we are now trying to find a place where he can get some practical engineering experience for the coming months. I have written to both Mr. John R. Freeman and Mr. Spencer Murray, who are the most eminent engineers in this country, and have received the friendliest kind of letters in reply. Both of these gentlemen have promised to use their influence to help find Arthur the right kind of a position and have already written letters in his behalf. Mr. Freeman you know personally, I believe. Mr. Murray has two boys in school with us at the present time; so that the approaches in both cases were simple and direct. I venture to quote the closing paragraph in Mr. Freeman's letter received only this morning: "I had not previously known that you were looking after the education of Mr. C.Y. Sun's four children. I am glad to find them in such capable hands. The father impressed me as one of the finest characters that I met during my stay in China." This morning's mail also brings me a letter from Charlie, in which he tells me of his work and life at Amherst. All the reports I can get from my friends at Amherst, and I naturally have many there, for that was my own college and the town my home town for most of my life, are enthusiastically commendatory of Charlie and his work and spirit. I have had nothing very recently from Tom, though the last reports were good, and I have reason to hope that he is making an earnest start in his college life. With warm personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 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 Alfred E. Stearns C.Y.Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3036dab31b84b88822396962b90cb3ff.jpg 2d86be5f3b9751f203ca78d1ec443c6d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/42d27110a44fcc8df44bdada3f951fc9.jpg 7686f2dccd0125ac7ee1e80dd1810374 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/53f80b9a8c1ebe5f3c8a60e6cb3d472d.jpg 6bfae7e82ee95e554b31e687b041b821 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, October 4, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, October 4, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of August 23 with instructions as to the readjustments of the credits of the accounts of your children. Following your request, I have transferred form Quincey Sheh's account the sum of $1,000.00 and have added this as credits of $500.00, each, to the accounts of Mary and Tom. The new school year starts off with the last of your children leaving Andover for a higher institution. The last one is Tom, who has just entered Middlebury College, having succeeded, somewhat to my surprise but greatly to my satisfaction, in passing off the final entrance requirements this fall. Tom did some good hard work this summer which has borne fruit. Middlebury is a college of excellent standing, though one of the smaller ones, and Mr. Moody, the president, has expressed great personal interest in Tom's case and has promised to follow him closely. Moody is a very close personal friend of mine and the son of Dwight Moody, the famous American Evangelist and the founder of the Northfield Schools of international reputation. Arthur is just about to take his make-up examinations at the Institute of Technology in Cambridge in the hope of securing his too long deferred degree. He is anxious to get a position for the coming year where he can secure practice experience, but, as he seems unwilling to start as a draftsman, such a position is exceedingly difficult to find. I have suggested to him that it would be well to being even in this humble capacity and then bend every effort to prove himself worthy of broader work. Of course if he should by chance fail his make-up examinations, though I hope this may not happen, he will find it almost impossible to secure a position of the kind he seeks. He is to confer with me the moment the results of his examinations are known. Charlie returns to Amherst and goes on his steady and dependable course. He is in every way a most satisfactory fellow to work with and his record has been an increasing source of satisfaction to me, as I am sure it must be to you. Mary's problem has been a bit trying of late. With Minister Sze's help, arrangements were made for her admission to Elmira College, as you know. To complete the necessary preparation to visit approved friends during that period. With my endorsement she went to Springfield, Mass., for the last week of the vacation to stay with a friend there, planning to go direct from there to her college for its opening early the following week. At the end of the week in question Mr. Robinson arrived and we discussed together, of course, the situation of all the children. Mr. Robinson seemed to think it very desirable that someone should accompany Mary to Elmira. Since for the past two years she has had a large experience in handling her own affairs, I felt that she was perfectly capable of taking this next step alone, as nearly all of our American girls are accustomed to do and as I know many Chinese girls have done also. Yielding to Mr. Robinson’s feelings, however, I got in touch with Arthur and Charlie by telegraph, only to find that it would be impossible for them to adjust their plans to make the trip. Mr. Robinson then suggested that he would try to meet Mary himself en route to Elmira and accompany her there and that, if this proved impossible, he would get his sister to go. Consequently I endeavored to advise Mary of the situation and plans but discovered that she had already left Springfield Saturday and was passing the week-end with a school friend in Trenton, K. J., and thus avoiding the necessity of investing: a night in New York City or elsewhere on the way to Elmira. The plan she was carrying out was in every way a proper one though her failure to notify me in advance caused both Mr. Robinson and myself for the moment a great deal of confusion and some anxiety. I am sure, however, that Mary felt that she was doing the right thing and did not realize that any confusion might result. Mr. Robinson from the outset was very insistent that Mary should room her first year at Elmira in a private home, and, as he told me that this was your earnest wish, I naturally accepted the plan and advised Mary accordingly. Mary’s reply indicated great distress, which, for the moment, I could not understand, later, however, I received a letter from the Registrar at Elmira, in which she expressed most emphatically disapproval of the arrangement which she said was wholly contrary to their practices and which the college authorities felt strongly would be unwise for and unfair to Mary herself. She added that the college freshman dormitory provided surroundings in every way wholesome and best conducive to the welfare of students entering. Naturally under these conditions I felt it would be unwise to carry out Mr. Robinson’s plan and that you, yourself, would feel so too, if you were in possession of the information from thee college authorities which had just been placed in my hands. Further, Mary had already signed a contract for the dormitory room with my full approval; so that there was in a sense another obligation involved. Mr. Robinson in the meantime had arranged with some missionary family in Elmira to take Mary in: so, of course, it was necessary to explain matters to them which I attempted, to the best of my ability, to do. I hope that my final decision will meet with your fullest approval. My one desire was to do what was proper and best for Mary and at the same time follow a course that would be approved by you. Mr. Robinson’s arrival just as the college was about to open and the injunction of the new plan naturally upset things a good bit, and the complications were a little more pronounced because of the intimation, riven by Mary in one of her letters, that Mr. Robinson might not fully represent your real views in the matter, especially if the actual facts and conditions had been fully known to you in advance. Of course this intimation, and I am passing it on to you in confidence, did not affect the situation or influence me in my final decision. I simply felt that the college authorities knew best what Mary ought to do and that their own statement to me that for me to place Mary outside would be unwise and contrary to college practice must be relied on. Please pardon these somewhat lengthy details, but I am anxious that you should have all the facts before you so as to understand just what has been done and why. There are times when I would give almost anything to be able to talk matters over with you, for even just a few minutes but face to face, for I feel a pretty heavy sense of responsibility in attempting to work out by myself and at this distance all the problems which confront me in connection with the care and education of your four children. With warm personal regards, believe me always Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns