42 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/675b67c2d2df1848b679a72a7a84fbc3.jpg a5bafca9cfe1d7d4e401549bedaa28eb https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9156a65e6c012114c4b70eeccccbc7be.jpg 41b4461bfa972524240d19668b7170f0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings September-December 1926, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass., October 19, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass., October 19, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: I have this morning received a note from Mr. Freeman, enclosing copies of the correspondence he had had with Mr. Winsor and also a copy of the letter he has recently written you. I have written Mr. Freeman in reply that I felt that you ought to be ready to accept a position for this year without salary, provided, of course, each a position appears. I feel pretty sure that your father would be glad to meet your living expenses for another year in return for the valuable experience you would gain from such a connection. Of course if you can find a place with salary attached, so much the better, but don’t let a good opening go by on account of that particular consideration. The main thing just now is to get a job, and a good one, with the practical experience that the job offers. The added benefits accruing to you would more than offset the financial conditions involved. By the way, I have just had some correspondence with the Tech Bursar about Condition examinations. I recently received a bill for $5.00, the bill indicating that $10.00 had already been credited to your account by an earlier check from me and that the $5.00 was still due. As I had mailed you a check for $15.00, I could not understand the discrepancy and wrote to Mr. Ford for information. He writes me that $5.00 of the amount in question was returned to you in cash. As you gave me no notice of this, I was wholly in the dark and must admit that I do not consider this a fair or business-like attitude on your part. Further, the last bill I paid at the Harvard Cooperative Society on your account specified two individual items but gave the main item under "bill rendered" which, of course, gives me no chance whatever to check up on the character of the expenditures involved. Furthermore no bill had been rendered to me, at least before that time, for I have paid promptly every bill that has come into my hands. I have done everything in my power to handle your affairs in a business-like way but get comparatively little cooperation, for frequently bills sent to you to be OK’d, with return stamped and addressed envelopes accompanying them, do not come back to me until weeks later, and then generally with an accompanying request for personal funds. This has been my experience frequently with you and Tom, but not with Charlie and Ouincy. For your own sake, I hope you will appreciate the importance of handling matters in a different way from now on. It is in your interest and not my own that I am concerned and make this request. 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 19, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e170ef6e7104dde1cc7b6618eb70739d.jpg cc1fc2101ed1f8fbad8c5373db09a513 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 John R. Freeman, Providence, Rhode Island, October 19, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to John R. Freeman, Providence, Rhode Island, October 19, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Freeman: Thank you for your note of October 18 and for the copies of your letter to Arthur and of Mr. Winsor' s letter to you. You have been more than kind in this matter, and I deeply appreciate your interest, as I am sure Mr. Sun, Sr., will when he knows of it. Under the circumstances Arthur Sun ought, in my judgment, to accept the position regardless of any salary. I imagine that his father would be very willing to carry the minor expense of the boy’s living for another year in return for the valuable experience he would gain from a position of this kind. I am writing Arthur to this effect and trust that he will be governed in his further actions accordingly. 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 19, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns John R. Freeman https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6f0855ed86e8f9948019283faba43106.jpg ba397885238b148583fe10acdc3c0baf https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/478f45e1a61ff9d544a2724228bc1418.jpg 608839d66d1f1b331a35034004f64112 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 11, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 11, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: Thank you for your letter and for the enclosures. I will see that the bills are promptly settled. That of your dentist is heavy, of course, but dental operations are always very expensive things, as I know from my personal experience. In view of general charges made for this kind of work, I don’t think that Dr. Gibbons’s bill can be considered excessive. Now about Mary. I don’t know quite what to say. She wrote me only a few days ago a letter very similar to the one she has just written you, and I answered it promptly telling her that I felt sure she was suffering, when she wrote, from her cold and consequent run-down condition and that she would see things in a brighter light when her health improved. I told her further that I had received no information from the college itself that would indicate that her work was badly off, as she protested. My impression is that she is homesick chiefly and that her other complaints are naturally exaggerated by this fact. Very possibly it may be worth while to take the matter up with Minister Sze, who, through his friends at Elmira, may be able to locate the trouble better than you and I can. I am going to write him along this line, anyway. Your reference to Mary’s lack of frankness with you is interesting, because that is just what I have found myself in my dealings with her and it has troubled me not a little. When I happened to mention this once to one of the Abbot Academy teachers, I was given to understand that I was altogether wrong and that Mary was a model of frankness with all. Indeed I learned later that the Abbot authorities had criticized both Miss Clemons and me very severely and unjustly for intimating that this lack of frankness on Mary’s part as a weakness which had to be reckoned with at times and which it was our duty to help her overcame. Of course the attitude of the Abbot teachers only made matters worse, and that is one of the reasons that I have been a bit impatient with them ever since. Certainly the years of intimate contact in my home that I had with Mary gave me a better chance to judge her qualities, good and bad, than did the comparatively brief and irregular contacts which she had with her Abbot teachers. I had felt, though, that Mary had been outgrowing this weakness, and I am sorry to have you intimate in your letter that you evidently did not think so yourself. I am returning Mary’s letter, as I assume you wished me to do. Please let me know when you hear anything further from her. Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 11, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8067de1adb37cf991c10c18c6ff7ebde.jpg 6d7964cf07f88a8a173fb287680f78b0 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 M.A. Harris, Dean, Elmira College , October 18, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.A. Harris, Dean, Elmira College , October 18, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Miss Harris: I have just received a telegram from Mary Sun, asking me to write you requesting that permission be given her to visit over the week-end a friend, Sally Hawkes of Corning, N.Y. For your guidance I enclose a copy of the letter I have just written Mary in reply. Please use your own best judgment. My personal feeling is that Mary will probably be better off to eliminate these week-end visits from her program, at least until later in the year. Very sincerely yours, AES/G Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 18, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns M.A. Harris https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9d59bf3b2d8932ce34d5bd2776dfa610.jpg 2e3bb346a0e95db7c484d7362cc69159 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 Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., January 11, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., January 11, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Sze: I have recently received from Mary Sun, as has her oldest brother Arthur, letters reporting great distress over the seeming failure to meet properly the scholarship requirements of the college and intimating vigorously that Mary was bringing pressure to bear on her father to permit her to give up college and return home. Frankly, I think she is suffering a good bit from the effects of a cold and the consequent run-down physical condition, coupled with natural homesickness. On the other hand, it has always been difficult for me to find out from Mary exactly how matters stood with her; so that I am a bit perplexed at present to know just what to say or do. I am wondering whether from your Elmira connections and friends you could perhaps get some first-hand information about Mary and her status in the college which would prove helpful to me in advising her wisely. If this is asking too much, don’t hesitate to refuse the request. If, on the other hand, you have friends at Elmira who can and will give you a frank report on Mary’s status and prospects, I am sure that those reports would prove most helpful to us all. With the best wishes to you and yours for the new year just opening, 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 January 11, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0cc1d6f73992b217edab54cb6a0f0203.jpg d90ae6d8d9083592d22b8f946f15ad14 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 Mary Sun, Elmira College, October 18, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, October 18, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I have your telegram but am a good deal in the dark when it comes to answering your inquiry, since I do not happen to know much about the "Sally Hawkes" to whom your refer. Is she an Elmira College girl or one of the friends made in former schools? How well do you know her and what is her family like? If she is the right kind, as I have no doubt she is, I should be perfectly willing for you to spend a week-end with her provided only the college authorities fully approve of the plan. My impression is that the college does not look great favor on week-end visits for their students, at least early in the college course. This is exactly our position here, and I can understand fully why it is justified. If your Dean will write that she believes the trip wise and desirable thing in this instance, I shall be ready to wire my full approval; otherwise I strongly advise you to wait a little longer before you begin running away from the college and your friends there. 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 18, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/fb7da29209365ca891fff0ac9adfa5f7.jpg 516a9e15a14abeac9014a600a64da83f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings September-December 1926, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass., October 18, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass., October 18, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: Thank you for your letter received this morning. By all means write Mr. Freeman a note of appreciation and thanks. In the meantime, we shall continue to hope that something definite will turn up shortly. Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 18, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d8dc24a525476d1644c445fc9d75d136.jpg 94205b90337fa41c1d23cc511279ba5d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings September-December 1926, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, Kansas City, Missouri, October 15, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, Kansas City, Missouri, October 15, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Robinson: I have just received your letter of October 11. Arthur has at last succeeded in passing off the deficiencies standing between him and his Technology degree. I understand that the formal presentation of that degree will take place in December. In the meantime, we are searching for a job, and, as I have been able to interest Mr. John R. Freeman and Mr. Spencer Murray, two of the most eminent engineers in the country. I ran hopeful that our efforts will erelong be crowned with success. Arthur has been out recently to talk things over with me, and we are working together on the proposition. I have written Mr. Sun very fully and in detail about the complications and difficulties of our problem in connection with Mary's start at Elmira. From my letter Mr. Sun will certainly be able to see how earnestly you sought to carry out his wishes, and I am sure that he can never blame you if anything that savored of a failure can be recorded. Very sincerely yours, AES/G Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 15, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur G. Robinson Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2a459514531f20d035cff51043e1150d.jpg 4a33ef41d0d327b26cf1dcaa83fcd22a https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2411e68ad9468e0f0b455c58819f0306.jpg e30c43bd5ac1827b183057d0b40bf13a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 8, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 8, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: Thank you for your letter received this morning. You will note that I am using the new address which you have just sent me. I am interested in your hint that Tom seems to you to have changed a lot lately. Please tell me frankly in what way he has changed and whether you think it is for the better or for the worse. I never feel altogether easy about Tom, as you know, and if he needs checking up, I am sure that my good friend Pres. Moody of Middlebury will find a way to do it. No, I have not heard from your father for many months, and I can't help feeling a bit anxious, owing to the newspaper reports of the critical conditions that are developing in China. Evidently Peking and Shanghai have not suffered seriously as yet, but it looks to me now as if this developing antagonism towards foreigners in general would not go down until a real crisis has occurred. Of course these angry mobs are ill advised, and yet I am not sure that we can blame them altogether, for I can never get over the shock I received myself when I was in China, as I noted the arrogance and injustice so characteristic of the attitude of many of the foreigners whom I met. If only China could settle down, unite on a common policy and a strong leader, all of the thorns which have been pricking her flesh for years, including foreign concessions, tariff, extraterritoriality, and the rest, would speedily and permanently be done away with just as was the case in Japan when Japan went at the thing in the right way. You fellows, when you return to China will have a wonderful chance to help straighten out a bad tangle and put your country in a position that ought properly to be hers. I don’t think your idea of a night school course or two is crazy at all; indeed it seems to me pretty sound, especially as the bulk of your present work, as I understand it, is to be out of doors and more or less physical. That means that you ought to be able to take on a little real study even in the evening without harm and with some evident advantages. Don’t overdo it, though. With best wishes for the new year, believe me Always 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 8, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur 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