60 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e5af19e324e5b5a1b37d1e1b3eee9afb.jpg 48fcf97e32ddca7dab42605b218f2d4e 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 Lillian Fitzpatrick, Ithaca, N.Y. June 11, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Lillian Fitzpatrick, Ithaca, N.Y. 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 Lillian L. Fitzpatrick 1 East Avenue Ithaca, N. Y. My dear Miss Fitzpatrick: I am very much indebted to you for your friendly and explicit letter of June 7. Your explanations are more than clear, and I understand the situation fully. Recently I found it necessary to make provision for Mary Sun to cover the three weeks intervening between the close of her school year and the opening of the summer term at Ithaca. I chose the Tea Pines School down on Cape Cod and shortly after learned that the school had a summer session, generously attended and offering seemingly an unusually wholesome and vigorous life at an attractive seashore spot. It seemed to me that it would probably be well, under the circumstances, to allow Mary to remain at Sea Pines for the rest of the summer, and I wrote to Dr. Sze in Washington explaining the most recent development and asking his advice. A letter received from him this morning indicates that he appears to approve to my suggestion, and I am consequently making application for Mary's continuance at Tea Pines for the rest of the summer. Let me take this opportunity of thanking you for your generously expressed willingness to assume the responsibility of the oversight of Mary Sun during the summer. If the Ithaca arrangement had been made, I should have been immensely relieved and gratified to know that you were exercising this supervision over Mary's life and interests. Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Lillian Fitzpatrick https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/28b48f8adb6793c6008b8f09f3bcca72.jpg 1a54afe37a6b3bfaf0525ea1ea084af7 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 June 8, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, MIT June 8, 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 8, 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 8. 1926 Mr. Arthur Sun 93 Technology Dormitory Cambridge, Mass. My dear Arthur Your latter has just reached me, but I had already heard the bad news from the secretary of the Institute who send me a brief note yesterday. This news I passed on to Mary at Sea Pines in order that she might not plan to take in the festivities, as she had hoped and expected to do. This, of course, has proved a bitter disappointment for us all, and. I really can’t advice you by letter just what you ought to do. My impression, however, in that your father would wish you at almost any cost to fight on until the Technology degree is yours. If you can do this by summer work, go to it. It will be time to talk about a good vacation, if that is necessary, when the decree is actually in your possession. The secretary wrote me that he would advise me later just what steps would be required of you to make up your deficiencies and graduate. I wish you would get wish you would get this information from the authorities in writing and send it on to me; then we will get together and plan how best to meet the retirements, Further, we can get a job for you in the fall perhaps even better than we could earlier. This is about all I can say at present and with my limited knowledge of the actual conditions. Let me know just what the authorities are going to require of you and then I shall be able to advise you intelligently. Very sincerely yours. Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/74f7fad9c10aaedd945fcc4352bb0207.jpg ecf5226e3578c3938c85c98ad2a2f008 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 Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass. June 3, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass. June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 1926 Mr. Charles Sun 35 Woodside Ave. . Amherst, Mass. Dear Charlie: For the past few years I have been carrying a small amount of insurance on your clothing and other possessions merely as a precautionary measure. The amount of insurance has been $500.00 and the annual premium $3.00. Since some of you have left the house and your goods are necessarily a bit scattered, it does not seem wise to ne to continue the policy longer. I am writing that you may know of my decision and may, therefore, take out for yourself, if you deem it wise, a similar policy with some local agency. Sincerely yours Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b2a7778d80fa6eb1113c8e0cc9c08fe3.jpg 54166984759449ea44ebbb321737841c 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 Carlie Mallett, Elmira College June 4, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Carlie Mallett, Elmira College June 4, 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 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 Relation A related resource June 4, 1926 Miss Carlie Mallett Registrar, Elmira College Elmira, N.Y. My dear Miss Mallett: Thank you for advising me of Mary’s Sun’s status with reference to college admission. I feel sure that she will be able to get up the extra half point in Algebra, and I am also urging her to stress work in English during summer months. Very sincerely yours Carlie Mallett Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1633649c10203e4726e979e8d487797b.jpg 8a68d5b3cd2f7f834ef97645e9263636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/83b8365ff28855238b9d7833e822822a.jpg ebc623024c67bc878430d9b105b92111 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 Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass. June 2, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass. June 2, 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 2, 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 2, 1926 Mr. Charles Sun 35 Woodside Ave. Amherst. Mass. Dear Charlie: Thank you for your good letter received this morning. I am returning the list of studies, etc., as requested, and am prepared to endorse generally your selection of studies for the coming college year. If I were to raise any question, it would be in the matter of the Greek, for, while I am a keen believer in the value of Greek to the average student. I am not so sure that the investment of time and effort required of a foreigner, who must necessarily work with two foreign languages instead of one. is worth the struggle. Of course if you like the Greek and find it not too difficult, I am sure you will profit by it. I don't quite understand what you mean by your note "required of me". If you have to take it, that is another matter, but unless there are some very unusual conditions involved. I can't for the life of me understand why Amherst College should make Greek a requirement for a foreigner. Frankly, I am inclined to raise a row at the College Office if this is a fact. I also agree with you in your preference for Philosophy over the other two subjects mentioned under No. 3; but the value of a course in Philosophy depends more than anything else upon the character and point of flow of the instructor. With some instructors you would be far better off to leave the subject ahbieoly alone; with others, if they are men of high ideals and spiritual as well as intellectual power, Philosophy becomes perhaps the most stimulating subject in the whole list. It was a certainly that and more in my day in Amherst College under Professor Garman. The above are only suggestions, of course, add shall be ready to accept your final judgment, for I know that your judgment is regularly sound. If I can help you further, however, do not hesitate to let me know. I am still a bit upset about Mary’s surfer plans. Mr. Sze suggests that she go to Ithaca, N.Y., and live in a woman’s dormitory there while tutoring. At first this seemed to be the best thing in sight, but I must frankly admit that I do not quite like the idea of It, especially in view of the floating population and somewhat easy-going ways that are regularly associated with college summer schools. For the moment I have arranged for her to go to the Sea Pines School at Brewster, Mass, down on Cape Cod. This is an unusually nice place, and the women in charge are exceptionally high grade people. Very possibly, if things work out well for the rest of the month, it may best to have Mary stay right there for the summer. I can’t help feeling that it would be a much more stimulating place for her, physically. Intellectually, and spiritually. I have written Mr. Sze this morning and shall await further suggestions from him before settling things definitely. Arthur is coming up to see me to-morrow, and I shall talk with him along the lives you mentioned. If Mary were at Sea Pines, there would very probably be some good place down on the Cape where you and Arthur could stay and yet not be too far away. Do run out and see me when you can. Ever sincerely yours Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/fc7a09e777eb7ddb8d0c3744a481351a.jpg b0433096dbc128cccd08b8d1aa124b46 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ce2394452e933aec76ec92aff717eadf.jpg b931acd1607fa74fb91ad9cbe6c671b1 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 5, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. June 5, 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 5, 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 5. 1936 Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze Chinese Legation Washington. D. C. My dear Dr. Sze: Again my thanks for your prompt reply to my recent communication. Miss Bickford tells me that applications for the summer session at Sea Pines threaten to overcrowd them already and she is anxious to have me decide definitely within the next few days whether I wish to enter Mary for that session or not. Of course in sending Mary down there at this time I had in mind providing for the interim period between the closing of her last school and the opening of the Cornell session. At the same time, I recognized that, if the arrangement should prove satisfactory to all concerned. it might seem from all points of view wise to continue it through the summer. Naturally I should not have thought of this, had the original plan of having Mary live and tutor with a member of the Elmira faculty proved workable. Unless, therefore, you feel that there are reasons why Mary ought to go to Ithaca. I shall feel disposed to tell Miss Bickford that I am inclined to favor the Sea Pines arrangement for the summer and am ready to make a tentative application for Mary’s enrollment there, subject to cancellation in case to find that Mary is not going to be happy under this scheme. When Miss Clemons met Mary in Boston Thursday and turned her over to Miss Bickford. Mary made many inquiries about the school. Then she found that it was on the shore, that there would be a large group of girls there for the summer, and that tennis courts and other facilities were provided for a wholesome and active life, she seemed quite enthusiastic over the plan, and said she liked the idea of it very much. If her hopes are realized, therefore, I am inclined to think that she will take kindly to the suggestion of making that her summer home, and I am very sure that she could not be under better influences. A note from the Registrar of Elmira College received yesterday tells me so that the college will allow Mary 14 1/2 credits towards her admission on the basis of the work she has already covered to date and suggests that an additional half point in Algebra be worked off during the summer. While this becomes the technical requirement for admission, I feel sure that Mary should do some further work in English and perhaps French in order that she may not find the demands of the college curriculum too severe when she actually enters upon her work at Elmira. I am sorry that Mr.Robinson has delayed his visit until so late in the year. Tom Sun tells me that he had word from his mother that Mr. Robinson will not reach Andover until July. If that is the case, I may find it a bit difficult to make a personal contact with him, though as my daughter will probably sail for Europe about the last of July, I shall be in this part of the world, at least, at that time. With renewed assurances of esteem and appreciation of your more than friendly help, believe me Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ae82a369f86f9f9cf0619951379deae4.jpg a10ce3727f2e22e59db67d633940afe6 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8de16bb3923bd8ac6dae4021364a3f14.jpg c770aa0888b0901af0d2e6f37fa30bd6 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 June 5, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, MIT June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 1926 Mr. Arthur Sun '93 Technology Dormitory Cambridge, Mass. Dear Arthur: I am sorry that we have not been able to get together, as planned. four telephone message the other night came after I had gone to bed; so that it was not possible for me to talk things over with you. Mary left for the Sea Pines School at Brewster, Mass., last Thursday. Hiss Bickford, the principal, and her sister, who acts as assistant principal, arc exceptionally fine people and are anxious to do their best for Mary. When Mary found that there was to be a large group of girls there for the summer and that facilities for tennis, bathing, etc, were provided, she became, apparently, quite enthusiastic over the prospect. I had planned to have her there only during the period intervening between the close of her school year at Merrimac and the opening of the Cornell summer session. I can’t help feeling, though, that if Mary finds the surroundings down there congenial, it would be much letter for her to stay there throughout the summer rather than to go to Cornell. She can get at Sea Pines all of the tutoring she will need and, at the same time, enjoy with plenty of girls of her own age the wholesome and invigorating life with all that the seashore offers. I have written to Mr. Sze, explaining matters in full, and I am inclined to believe that he will fully approve of this plan; indeed he has said as much in the letter received from him this morning. I should like, of course, to have Mary present at your graduation, but I do not quite see how I could fairly keep her over for nearly a week for this event with not even the assurance that you were to get your degree. My impression is that the school authorities at Sea Pines would hesitate to encourage her to make the trip back to Boston so soon after starting her work with them, unless we all felt that the occasion was of sufficient significance to justify another exceptional measures. I feel sure that will concur in this opinion. Trusting most earnestly that you are going to be able to clean up all your work at Tech and secure the coveted degree which I know is going to mean so much to your farther as well as to you, believe me with best wishes Ever sincerely yours Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/530a4e0f464c9a12c796ff27ef85d5c8.jpg b27092415986182b4ce97b5e5c59a146 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0fc83af54b7e2bcb5c0e357d5daa62b1.jpg 266d029bff7f5e7b141a1849c1e5558f 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 7, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass. June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 1926 Miss Mary Sun Sea Pines School Brewster, Mass. My dear Mary Thanks for your note received this morning. Of course I know only too veil that you are bound to be a bit lonesome at the start with new surroundings, new faces, and new contacts. All of us have to through that. What I do feel is that, with such surroundings and facilities as you have there at Sea Pines, you ought in a short time to be happier than in any other piece I can think of. Anyway, don’t pass judgment too soon, for we must plan something for the summer and the summer work, and I don’t know where we could do better than at Sea Pines. The Elmira authorities have written me that they will give you almost enough credits on your work to date to assure your admission to the college in the fall. They will require you, however, to do some more Algebra during the summer and strongly advise further work in English and possibly one or two more subjects. Algebra first and English second, however, seem to be the prime requisites. By all means get the blanket if that is necessary, though, unless you are to be there during the summer, it would seem to be rather heavy expense for a month only and it is just possible that Miss Bickford may be able to arrange for you to rent for the time being certain bedding you require. Ask her direct what you ought to do, and tell her that I will gladly meet the expense of the blanket if she says it is the proper thing to do and will kindly order one for you at once. Of course the same thing applies to the jacket. Ask Miss Bickford to authorise in writing, so that I can have the record of the purchase of those articles, and then I will, of course, pay for them. I have just this morning received a note from the secretary of Boston Tech, telling me that Arthur will not secure his degree this year. I haven’t heard this from Arthur yet, as he told me only last week that he still hoped that he would graduate. This is altogether too bad, and I hardly know what to think or do about it and I am afraid your father will be bitterly disappointed. No doubt Arthur will come out here soon to talk matters over with me. If so, I am going to suggest that he run down to Brewster and have a little visit with you there, since the Technology graduation is not to be. I am signing and returning the correspondence list, as requested, though I must warn you again not to spend too much time in writing letters to your friends. I mean by that that you must not allow correspondence of this kind to interfere with your regular work. By all means keep in touch with your good friends, but don’t feel that you have got to write them every two or three days. Very few people do that even to the best friends they have in the world, and if they are good friends, they, themselves, would be the first to object if they felt that the correspondence was interfering with the best progress of those they liked so much. With all good wishes, believe me Faithfully yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ba38ca0fd5c2f9d23b4491265776bc39.jpg 4317062ef887d4d6b943f67c7212fcc0 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/689f6464f202560e4703252b6991082a.jpg e1626352ce28fbeec598e8ffa131d2e3 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 7, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Faith Bickford, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass. June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 1926 Miss Faith Bickford Sea Pines School Brewster, Mass. My dear Miss Bickford: I have just received a note from the Register of Elmira College relating to the admission of Mary Sun. and it reads as follows: "According to the papers that you sent us in your letter of May twenty-fifth, Miss Sun have 14 1/2 units to offer for entrance. If she can make up one-half unit of intermediate algebra she should have sufficient units and the required subjects for admission.” This gives us a good idea. I think, of what Mary will have to do in the way of tutoring this summer, but as her school work to date has been more or less broken and not regularly along college preparatory lines, I am sure that she should continue work this summer in English, at least, and possibly in French or History. The stress, it seems to me, should fall on the Algebra first and English second. Possibly this will be enough. It is never possible for me to tell exactly from Mary’s letters what her inner feelings are. A letter received from her this morning: conveys the news that she is more lonesome than ever before, but whether that is a fact or not, I can’t say. In any case, I am confident that within a few days her tone will change and her reaction be more normal. Further, from a letter I have just recently from her father in which he expresses the earnest hope that Mary can be located for the summer in a Christian home and under Christian influences, I am sure that he would be better satisfied to have Mary stay through the summer with you than to attempt the suggested contact with the Cornell Summer School at Ithaca. For that reason I am very hopeful that you will find a wholesome and friendly reaction on Mary’s part, if indeed such is not already in evidence. I think I can pretty safely promise you that Mary will stay with you through the summer. The moment I have more definite word from the Chinese Minister at Washington, I will wire you. In the meantime, I appreciate your forbearance and cooperation in this somewhat complicated case. Mary has written me that she needs a blanket and a jacket of some kind. If this is the case, I shall, of course, be glad to authorize the purchase of these articles and will send a check for the same the moment the bill is received. Mary has also submitted her proposed correspondence list, a rather long one, and yet perhaps not unnaturally so. In the cases of one or two of the Andover girls named I hardly know what to say. If I decline to include them on the list, I am afraid there will be added cause for talk; on the other hand, they represent sources from which some of my troubles in the past have come. On the whole, I imagine it will probably be better to approve the list tentatively and reserve tire right to reduce it later. I have written to Mary, but if you think my position is not correct, please tell me so very frankly Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Faith Bickford https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4f440ae47ed913d27111592f0517b394.jpg 9154d5286b9b4d84ca53ebaf9b8af5f7 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2cbbefdf1604d908b74e97b70fd1a92d.jpg 43e4ab7ed4b26c17f7d70b992e56be9d 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 2, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. June 2, 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 2, 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 2 1926 Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze Chinese Legation Washington D. C. My dear Dr. Sze: Since my last letter to you, I have been giving further and some anxious thought to Mary Sun’s plans for the summer, my chief concern being to make satisfactory arrangements for the period between the close of her work at her present school and the beginning of the earner work at Ithaca or elsewhere. Some one with whom I happened to be discussing the matter recommended strongly the Sea fines School at Brewster, Mass., down on Cape Cod and of a somewhat unusual and distinctly good atmosphere. I have known of the school for years and have always heard it very highly spoken of, and at one time I had even considered it seriously as perhaps the proper school for Mary. When this last suggestion was made. it occurred to me that I might be able to persuade the Principal, Miss Bickford, to take Mary for a limited time, and I at once got in touch with her by telephone. To my great satisfaction Miss Bickford expressed her willingness to take Mary in at once, although her regular school, session is shortly to close. Miss Bickford happens to be in Boston at present and has agreed to take Mary back with her to school on Thursday of this week. She will keep her there as long as authorized and at a very reasonably rate, $25.00 per week. The more I have thought over the problem, the more I am inclined to hesitate to approve of a summer for Mary in the surrounding which she would naturally encounter at Cornell. I know that these college summer schools invite all kinds and classes and that the problem of supervision and guidance for the individual student may often became a very complicated and difficult one. As the Sea Pines School has a regular summer session, is attractively located on the Cape Cod 8 Shore, and is in charge of a woman of exceptionally fine character and high ideals. I am wondering if, after all, this might not prove the best plan to continue through the summer, assuming, of course, that we find after the first two or three weeks’ test that the place is all I how believe it to be. Since you have been so kind and have gone to so much trouble already in this matter. I do not feel like abandoning at once and altogether the plan you have already proposed, and I should welcome your full approval of the one suggested above before taking any further steps to make it permanently operative. If I had thought of it earlier, I would unquestionably have expressed my preference for it over the Ithaca proposition, which, with all of its attractions, has its distinct drawbacks as well. I really can’t get very enthusiastic over the thought of leaving Mary in a large college dormitory for the summer, regardless of the person who is in charge of it. for I know from experience that college summer schools are generally pretty free and easy affairs and the supervision at best rather casual. Please write me frankly how the suggestions I have made above strike you, and don’t hesitate to criticize them if you have any grounds whatever for doing so. Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze