49 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/85dcf5979d711bf3156772374a1dfddf.jpg fa4fa22fd50a72937bf399f7a79b6f7b 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 1920-1924, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. December 19, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. December 19, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Sze: Thank you for your prompt and more than satisfactory reply to my letter of recent date. I am making plans for the Suns to leave for Washington the day after Christmas and I hope that the oldest brother, now in Cambridge, and Quincey Sheh, who is due back from Bowdoin shortly, will join the party. Of course I can't speak for them finally until I have learned their decision. With holiday greetings, believe me 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 December 19, 1923 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/7aa0513f8de0fdfa8ba2ca1d331ca1aa.jpg 8c4b936ddb5c6702647ad42591f97ab5 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 July-December 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, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, August 29, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, August 29, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Many thanks for letting me know where you are, and your plans for the future. I hope that the time won’t hang to heavily on your hands before college re-opens. With all good wishes, 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 29, 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 Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/620457d5859623aa700d22112dd94289.jpg b0ae1d78529981613051cb09488db6a7 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 10, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 10, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Thanks for your good letter of November 8 and for the detailed account you have given me of your expenditures to date. I am enclosing a check for five hundred dollars to replenish your account, or rather, to increase its size so that you may not feel nervous as to your financial status. Five hundred ought to carry you for some time, as the heaviest expenses of the year, barring the tuition, have already been met, and Christmas vacation ought not to draw too heavily on your balance. I don't know about your physical condition, though I had always supposed it was about as good as could be asked. If you have any dentistry to be done, however, don't put it off, please. It never pays to do so, and most of us live to regret our shortcomings in that respect. I am delighted to know that Yale is getting more bearable and that you are not so lonesome as formerly. Don’t forget that you can never expect in any large university the friendly and chummy atmosphere that you find in a small college. You will, however, in time develop your own circle of friends and will find life pretty interesting and worth while after all. My very best to you. 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 10, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ab4ed1f30a2f8707657eb9ef38b17519.jpg 4d1cfb86922765801c73eb04c0abb5b5 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8e61c3a377fabc3a783532f6155aa125.jpg 5714b96755cece8300a4a4ec002b94c8 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 5, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 5, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: I have read with great interest your most recent letter, and will try as best I can to answer some of your numerous inquiries. First of all comes the question of Mary’s return this summer. I have written your father to secure if possible an expression from him of his plans and wishes, but so far have heard nothing definite. I believe that Charlie as well as you has been hoping to accompany Mary back when she goes, so that I am not in a position to advise you as to whether or not it would be fair or even wise for you to consider such a plan too hopefully. At any rate, it seems to me that this is a question for your father rather than I or you to ultimately decide, and I would suggest that you write to him at once and frankly. I don't see how he can possibly be hurt by a letter of this kind from you, for you can put the thing in such a way as to indicate, of course, no desire or intention whatever of overriding his expressed wishes. Yes, I can well imagine that Yale and New Haven are much more expensive propositions than Middlebury College and Middlebury town. If you can secure a scholarship later, well and good. Your chances naturally will be greatly improved if your record this year is a good one; so make that the best possible. Your financial situation is about as it has been; that is your father regularly keeps a small balance with me to protect both you and Mary against emergencies. I hope for his sake, however, for I am sure he will find it difficult to understand a wide variance in expenses, that the New Haven expense account is not going to mount too fast, even though it must necessarily be a bit heavier than that at Middlebury. When it comes to the system of handling your allowances, please understand that I am not treating you a bit differently from the treatment accorded both Mary and Charlies, and Arthur, too, for that matter, when the latter two were here. The plan still holds in Mary's case. When Charlie left for London, his father wrote me explicitly to turn over to him the balance of the amount standing at that time to his credit. This I did, and since that time I have had nothing whatever to do with Charlie's funds. I am perfectly willing that you should have a reasonable balance in your bank account at New Haven, so if that balance is getting low at this time, let me know and I will be glad to replenish it a bit. I know exactly how you feel about your father’s wishes in respect to an American collegiate degree for you. Like many another Chinese father, I cannot help feeling that your father has attached as you have intimated a mythical value to a degree in itself. Perhaps because we here in America are fortunate enough to know how little of real value there may be in a degree just by itself, and how widely the values in these degrees vary, with that knowledge we are certainly not in any danger of attaching to a lone degree the high values that some foreigners do. I have discussed this proposition with your father in a number of letters in the past, but have to be a bit careful for I know he is perfectly sincere in his feelings and I would not for the world hurty [sic] him. Don’t be too sure that the Chinese representatives at New Haven are as bad as you think they are just now. If they are, then perhaps you can give them a lot of helpful advice. Anyway, look them over pretty carefully and be as friendly with them as you can until you can find out just what they need from you. In the process I am inclined to think that you will find that they are better than you now believe, and that some of them here and there may even be worth cultivating and eventually helpful friends. Just now I know you are in a pretty blue and discouraged mood, but that is natural enough after the happy year at Middlebury. But these changes are bound to come to us wherever we are, and it is our job to make the readjustments as smoothly as we can and without losing our faith and courage. Ever 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 5, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e5ac4a87a1cd6f4eea2f0f02bdd8eb86.jpg 66a1f11f25c6e6f82dca2bbf71bad8df 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 July-December 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 Mary Sun, Cornell University, August 4, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Cornell University, August 4, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 4, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource My dear Mary: I have read with keenest interest your letter of August 1st and the enclosures. The latter I am returning herewith. I don’t know who the good friend is who tells of visiting the Dean, but I would value her comments a little more if she had not addressed you in quite such endearing and gushing terms. Still, I have no doubt she is painting the picture just as she sees it. Anyway, we are evidently getting the thing straightened out, and I am sure that you will be given full credit this coming year for all your efforts and achievements. What you say about your health troubles me, though I am glad to feel that you have the matter in hand now and are making real progress. When you were here I was a little troubled by your seeming pallor and thinness, which I feared were the result of foolish dieting. Your health should be the first consideration, and you must bend every effort now to the correction of past weaknesses and the building up of a vigorous boydy, which, of course, would mean a more active and retentive mind. Follow your doctor’s instructions implicitly, and I am sure that the desired results will follow. With all best wishes, believe me Ever sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ae6087114e195a8e9f1f93c5abf7b641.jpg a6bc3ff51b5c03e008bb36943b7ccee8 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 July-December 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 Mary Sun, Cornell University, July 27, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Cornell University, July 27, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 27, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: Your letter reached me only a few hours after my return from Connecticut Lake where I have been for the past two weeks with my own boy. The old place has not changed much, though on account of logging operations the fishing on the Diamond has been very poor for the past two years. I share your hope that you will have an opportunity to see the old place again, enjoy a good tramp in the woods, and get a few old-fashioned fly bites before you go back to China. Your records from Amherst reached me some time ago, and I at once forwarded them to you and, if I remember correctly, using Arthur's mail box address in Boston. If you have not received the record by this time, I would suggest that you inquire at the Boston Post office for I think I sent several documents to you and Tom at that address. I am sorry that you are not finding more to do this summer that seems really worth while, though I know that a good rest won't hurt you. Tom assured me that he was to take regular courses at Boston University. If he is not doing this, he certainly should let me know. With best wishes to you both, believe me Always sincerely yours Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b6bb7bfd1b265ca7a28e3cbf27966676.jpg 7688155d84e7b7b8705a2176958e7428 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 July-December 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 Charles Sun, c/o Frank Lin, MIT Dorm, July 26, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, c/o Frank Lin, MIT Dorm, July 26, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, c/o Frank Lin, MIT Dorm, July 26, 1927 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 26, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: Your letter reached me only a few hours after my return from Connecticut Lake where I have been for the past two weeks with my own boy. The old place has not changed much, though on account of logging operations the fishing on the Diamond has been very poor for the past two years. I share your hope that you will have an opportunity to see the old place again, enjoy a good tramp in the woods, and get a few old-fashioned fly bites before you go back to China. Your records from Amherst reached me some time ago, and I at once forwarded them to you and, if I remember correctly, using Arthur's mail box address in Boston. If you have not received the record by this time, I would suggest that you inquire at the Boston Post office for I think I sent several documents to you and Tom at that address. I am sorry that you are not finding more to do this summer that seems really worth while, though I know that a good rest won't hurt you. Tom assured me that he was to take regular courses at Boston University. If he is not doing this, he certainly should let me know. With best wishes to you both, believe me Always sincerely yours Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Frank Lin 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/61a7cd064c537530d085fe7a5b305375.jpg 130918c5b553054dc1f9ccaedf5f7bf4 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 Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 1, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 1, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I have your letter of October 31, and am mailing you as requested a check for five hundred dollars to replenish your bank account and to enable you to face necessary expanses still ahead. I do hope that you and Tom are going to see a good deal of each other while you are together in New Haven. Tom needs a little cheering up apparently, as he finds the life and surroundings at New Haven a good bit different from those to which he had been accustomed at Middlebury. I had a fine letter from Charlie only yesterday and another from Tom in the same mail. Charlie gives me some interesting news of the doings of some of our old Andover boys now in China and intimates that he himself is getting somewhat accustomed to London and is in consequence not quite so homesick as he was at first. Tom clearly finds it hard to adapt himself to his new surroundings at Yale, but I hope that he, too, will in time find that the rough edges will rub off and that life will get increasingly smoother. My very best to you as 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 1, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/97d1c5065e3df1c8b5231f546e13f1ea.jpg fc0a1a98bbfe5e58698190023b2e5cb3 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 July-December 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, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Cornell University, July 22, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Cornell University, July 22, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 22, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Your letters of July 8, 11 and 15 have been forwarded to me from Andover. Thanks for your explanations of the reported invitation from Dr. Sze. Of course, if you did not receive his letter, you cannot be blamed for sending no reply. I am enclosing, herewith, a copy of the Deans letter to me so that you can understand the bases of my letter of complaint to you. I can understand, of course, why Dr. Lent should say one thing to you and Miss Harris another, if the latter has not judge[d] the situation fairly. I hope you will write her and try to straighten matters out in her mind. With all best wishes, believe me, Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun