59 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b09b9b2144e2c07c1bf675be8f482543.jpg 5a6c6b31547c6283602ddf056bf9fe58 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 Mary Sun, Elmira College, January 7, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, January 7, 1928 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: On my return from a brief holiday I find your good letter of December 27 and am glad that you like the book I sent you. I don’t suppose that anything has ever been written outside of the Bible that is more often read at the Christmas season than the CHRISTMAS CAROL of Dickens. That is why I wanted you to have it, for you will find that it is based on a wonderfully wholesome philosophy of life. Let me take this opportunity to thank you for remembering me at the Christmas season. I am grateful for your gift but still more for the thought that prompted it. May the coming winter term bring you good health, good marks, and real satisfaction in your work, and may the New Year just opening prove the best and happiest you have ever known. 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 7, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/96e7205b3aa66a23a250dbf6a546db5b.jpg 53308d6a1570a7ec0f5163b5a230ef1d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ffa0da887d6d3e5fb41454cc1c25a3e6.jpg 840283eac4a66cf50f56b83945277ed0 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 1923-1926 Folder 2, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 24, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 24, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 24, 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 Relation A related resource May 24, 1926 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun I this morning received your letter of April 31. Mr.Sze and I have had personal conference and have continued to discuss Mary’s case and plan for her future by correspondence. Your letter seems to express your full approval of the steps which we have been taking, a bit in the dark at times, I must admit, so far as your real desires were known to us. This morning’s mail also brings me a letter from the President of Elmira College, the college which both Mr. Sze and I decided was best fitted to meet Mary's needs, saying that after reading my letter the Committee on Admissions had decided to admit Mary on my recommendation, even though she may not be fully able to pass all of the regular entrance examinations. This is good news indeed, and the gratifying decision is no doubt due in large measure to Mr.Sze's personal influence and interest in the case. Of course for Mary's own sake it is imperative that, even though technically admitted, she should have covered as far as possible the full preparation required in order that she may not find the college work itself beyond her reach and too hard. With Mr. Sze's help, I am arranging for her to study during the summer under the direction and in the home of a competent member of the Elmira College faculty. I am sure that such a plan offers the best and most worth while kind of a summer that can be planned for Mary at Just this stage. Now that Mary’s case has been definitely, and I believe satisfactorily, settled. I most admit that the biggest problem I have on my bands at present and the cause of my chief worry is Tom. Tom is not doing well, and our combined efforts to rouse him and make him realize just where he stands and where he is heading seen thus far to have failed. At our last faculty meeting I asked Tom's teachers for full and frank expression of opinion on Tom and his problem. All are agreed that the boy can and should do letter work. Most of them also feel, as I have come to feel, that the boy has reached the point where he is not gaining additional benefits by the school connection here but indeed gives evidences of slipping a bit. We can't possibly graduate this June. By faculty vote he has just been put on what we call probation because of his low standing and because this is the customary penalty imposed on a boy with a record like Tom's. This means that, in the judgment of the faculty, it is altogether unlikely that the boy should be allowed to go on here next year. The more I have studied the case, the clearer I am that Tom is not yet quite ready for college and the freedom of collage , unless it be a small New England college somewhat separated from the temptations and activities of a big city. He might get into such a college next fall, but I doubt whether this would be rise. My inclination at the moment is to favor and favor rather strongly a year in a good military school, for Tom evidently needs discipline, to be made to do things accurately and on time and to obey orders promptly and without questioning - in fact to make those contacts and secure those influences which a prod military school supplies. I have been interested to find that several of my colleagues on the faculty who have known Tom most intimately share my views completely. When Mr. Robinson appears, I shall discuss the case with him fully and carefully, for I confess that I am troubled, and I must also admit that it seems out of the question for Tom to fulfill your wish that he should graduate from this school without forcing him to take another year, which would mean a good deal of repetition and a continuation of the same influences which have lately, at least, not proved stimulating to him. with the inevitable result of lessened ambition and effort on is part; and that, of course, would mean ultimate disaster and must be avoided at all costs. I appreciate more deeply than I can tell you the friendly and generous cooperation you have so readily given me at all times and the confidence you have so generously reposed in me as I have sought to carry out your wishes for your children. Naturally I am doubly troubled when the results most desired do not come or seem to be at least delayed. At any rate, I can assure you that to whatever extent I may have failed in aiding your children to obtain the goals which you have cherished for them, there has been no lack of willingness or interest and there has always been a sharing on my part of the disappointment and regret which have naturally been years. Believe me, with warm regards and friendliest good wishes. Very sincerely yours. C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/27ac629b91ac9440af624f6520c4f452.jpg 0ca40b48cc213f6f7d3ca784497fc2c3 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 1923-1926 Folder 2, 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 Rev. George A. Fitch, Ventnor, N.J. January 7, 1924 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Rev. George A. Fitch, Ventnor, N.J. January 7, 1924 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 7, 1924 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 January 7, 1924 Rev. George A. Fitch 24 North Portland Avenue Ventner, New Jersey My dear Mr. Fitch: Thank you for your good letter just received. Thomas Sun seemed much relieved when I told him that I had finally heard from you. I do not imagine, therefore, that there is any immediate rush in this matter, and in my judgment you should plan to come when you can conveniently do so rather than undertake a journey which means a hardship. Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Rev. George A. Fitch https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/15179bc49eb2af877c508e729dd415fb.jpg 5540791c50b519f1ff4293e49c26c138 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 1923-1926 Folder 2, 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 George A. Fitch, Ventnor, N.J. December 31, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to George A. Fitch, Ventnor, N.J. December 31, 1923 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 31, 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 Relation A related resource December 31. 1923 Mr. George A. Fitch 23 North Portland Avenue Ventnor, New Jersey My dear Mr. Fitch: One of my Chinese wards, Thomas Sun, whose family, residents of Tientsin, are, I believe, friends of yours, has expressed the desire to be baptised. His father had urged him to postpone the actual event awaiting your arrival in this vicinity and in order that you might perform the ceremony. May I ask whether your plan are such as to make it possible for you to arrange to do this in the not distant future? I understand from Mr. Schneider of the International Committee that you are at present touring some of the eastern states, so I am assuming that there is a chance at least that your wanderings will carry you to our vicinity. I hope so. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Rev. George A. Fitch https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/389b9d06ec181b516a28ae74b17162bb.jpg bd32d9f55d3dd03af6049fc7fe80985b 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 1923-1926 Folder 1, 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, Sea Pine School, Brewster, Mass. August 10, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Sea Pine School, Brewster, Mass. August 10, 1926 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 10, 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 Relation A related resource August 10, 1926 Miss Mary Sun Sea Pine School Brewster, Mass. Dear Mary: Good for you, and hearty congratulations. I am glad that you are going to have no further worry for the sunnier, though I am sure that every bit of work you put in for the rest of the tine before college opens will prove of immense value to you, especially during the Freshman year. When you decide where you are going to visit after your summer session closes, be sure to let me have the addressee so that I can keep posted as to your whereabouts. I am still in Andover as you will note from this letter, though I hope to be able to get into the woods for two or three weeks before school reopens. I am returning the Elmira papers which you will doubtless need for reference. Always sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c39518a9779cfae11272c1e88b0fb7ad.jpg d6e1058cb8a831f7984d9fd3609855a2 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 1923-1926 Folder 1, 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, MIT August 12, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, MIT August 12, 1926 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 12, 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 Relation A related resource August 12, 1926. Mr. Arthur Sun, Technology Dormitories Cambridge, Mass. Dear Arthur: I have your letter of August 10th and am enclosing checks as requested, one for Mr. Mirabelli and the other to you for advance allowance. Please send me the receipts promptly. You have really been dreadfully careless about bills and receipts, although I take extra pains to enclose addressed and stamped return envelopes whenever I send you a check. In spite of this, the receipts frequently do not come back until you have occasion later to write for money. This not only means extra trouble for me, but is distinctly unbusinesslike on your part. For your own sake, if you ever hope to be a success, do try to overcome this carelessness, and be careful and prompt in all matters relating to the handling of money. Tom has applied for admission to Middlebury College and is now tutoring at the Thorn Mountain Summer Camp at Jackson, New Hampshire. Mary is going to Elmira College, and has recently received notice that she is fully admitted. Tom troubles me, as usual. His final report in June with us was wretched, and, though he assured me that it did not represent the real work he had actually done, and that he would prove this on the college examinations, the college returns were equally bad. If he fails to get into Middlebury I am strongly disposed to give him a year in a strict Military School. Otherwise, I really think he ought to go back to China, for he appears to be drifting more and more until I wonder whether we can stop it. As to your job next fall. It seems to me that the best way to get at the thing is to interview some of your instructors there at Tech, who are constantly placing follows in positions such as you seek, and who can tell you far more than I can just how to go to work to find a position. Try this anyway, and then let me know what success you have. I shall be glad to help you in every way I can, but am naturally limited in my ability to do so. I am hoping to start for the lake the last of this week, and be there until school opens next month. If you have occasion to write, however, letters sent to Andover will be forwarded, and in any case, the receipts for the checks enclosed should be returned to the office here, and in the envelope I am sending with them. Ever sincerely yours. Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/960ab1986ede88bd32d18c1f9fa7e8ee.jpg e956119764aab3991d414e758b68b3c7 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 1923-1926 Folder 1, 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 Faith Bickford, Sea Pines School, Bewster, Mass. June 14, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Faith Bickford, Sea Pines School, Bewster, Mass. June 14, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 14, 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 Relation A related resource June 14, 1926 Miss Faith Bickford Sea Pines School Brewster, Mass. My dear Miss Bickford: Thank you for your letter of June 12 and for the statement of expenses. The formal application for Mary’s admission to camp was mailed you last Saturday, and I have written Mary, as I have written you, saying that the decision to take advantage of the Sea Pines summer session had been made. I hope and believe that this will prove a satisfactory arrangement to us all. I am enclosing check for the statement rendered and shall be glad to have your receipt, as I am accustomed to file the receipts for all the expenditures of my Chinese wards. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Faith Bickford https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/60f5169e140c5e20b68a210a6507b86e.jpg 4ee8e738a178c6d5c939a25dc1118f35 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4a478c42634b8be329f035bb7a9d706b.jpg 22ebd95afd3c9114bcffaee13da317ef 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 1923-1926 Folder 1, 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, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass. June 12, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass. June 12, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 12, 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 Relation A related resource June 12. 1926 Miss Mary Sun Sea Pines School Brewster, Mass. Dear Mary: Your letter of June 10 reached me yesterday, and, as this is the day of the Exeter ball game, I am rushed to death and can only send a brief reply now. First, I have instructed Miss Pickford to purchase blankets and whatever else you require for the summer, so that you will not lack for these necessaries. I am also going to send her at once a check as reserve for you to draw on, with her approval, when you need incidental expenses. As to the summer, I have had further correspondence with Dr.Sze, and in a letter received from him only yesterday have his warm approval of the Sea Pines Summer School as offering better advantages than the somewhat indefinite Ithaca plan which we first discussed. Frankly, I am sure that you will be happier and much better physically at Sea Pines than you would be at Ithaca, especially if we happen to have a hot summer; indeed I can't think of a better place or arrangement under which summer work could be done than those offered at Sea Pines. I have written Miss Bickford about the requirements for your admission. The Elmira authorities are going to be very generous with you and are giving you full credit for all the work you have done to date. They will require a little further work in Algebra, however, and feel, as do I, that such additional work as you can do in English and perhaps French will make the Freshman year much simpler for you and consequently much more satisfactory in every I will see about the trunk at once. Possibly it would be better for you to have all three sent down, so that you can look over your things at your leisure this summer and take what you will require to Elmira. As Miss Clemons is going abroad with Marjorie before the summer is over and will be gone for most of the coming year, at least, we shall have to make some other arrangements for your general- oversight, and I imagine that, under the circumstances my house would not be the best place for you to leave your belongings. Indeed I am not sure yet just how I shall conduct the house next year or whether it will be possible for me to make vacation provision for you and the boys. Consequently it would seem that it might be well for you to have any of your clothes or other belongings that you may wish to get at during the year with you at Elmira. So just you cheer up about that work and don't get discouraged. There is absolutely no reason why you should feel in doubt about your admission to Elmira. Just carry out the instructions which the college authorities have given, do your best this summer, but don't overdo, and I am sure you will go sailing into college well prepared to do the college work and in good physical condition to stand the strain. With every best wish to you, believe me always Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c45ee90a4120a28de2537e28444a84d9.jpg afd9d42dc39b7e2523df5b565b682338 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c9a64527796738f49045b7e72f57f5b9.jpg 2f0236579a43c0dd3b27973b7e8d0088 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 1923-1926 Folder 1, 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 Faith Bickford, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass. June 11, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Faith Bickford, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass. June 11, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 11, 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 Relation A related resource June 11, 1926 Miss Faith Bickford Director, Sea Pines School Brewster, Mass. My dear Miss Bickford: Thank you for your letter which has just reached me and whichI have read with deep interest. Last night’s mail brought me a letter from Dr. Sze who expresses himself rather enthusiastically over the prospect of locating Mary with you this summer; and unless you find that Mary is stubbornly determined not to be happy down there and is likely in consequence to prove a disturbing factor in the situation, I am sure that the summer session with you will be far better for her in every way than would the Ithaca proposition, which for the moment seems to be the only reasonable alternative. I am making the application, therefore, in a formal way and shall write Mary what I have done. You have been very kind to take the girl for this short and trial period, as it were, and at such a reasonable rate. Any time you care to send me the formal bill, I shall be glad to send you a check for the same and promptly. Please do not hesitate to purchase for Mary whatever she requires for the school and camp life and work. I do not wish her to spend more than is necessary, of course; but she is by no means a charity pupil, and, while her father is shouldering a heavy expense in educating four of his children at the same time in America, he has always been ready to meet reasonable charges for the best that could be offered them, although equally anxious that they should develop no extravagant habits and taste. Whatever Mary may require, therefore, in the way of blankets, middies. rubber toots, etc., she should have. Again thanking you for the exceptionally friendly may in which you have cooperated in helping me solve a somewhat difficult problem, believe me Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Faith Bickford https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/84c0c2bcd7d5ef96b8aedcf1825af78b.jpg 31c399d04386bbff338fbae256659a3c 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 1923-1926 Folder 1, 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. June 11, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. June 11, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 11, 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 Relation A related resource June 11, 1926 Dr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze Chinese Legation Washington, D. C. My dear Dr. Sze Thank you for your letter of June 7, which I find on my desk on my return from a hurried trip to New York. I am asking the Principal of Sea Pines to send you the literature of the school that you may have a clear picture of the place and its life and work. Miss Bickford writes me by this morning's mail that Mary seems increasingly contented and happy; so that I am disposed to agree with you that the best arrangement I can make for Mary is to continue the Sea Pines connection through the summer, and I hope that Mary herself will feel that this is really the best thing to do. I received only a few days ago Mr. Sun’s letter to which you refer. Apparently he is inclined to approve all of the steps we have taken thus far to provide for Mary’s 'further stay in America and her college course. Trusting that you will have a most enjoyable and restful simmer, believe me Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze