63 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c5efadf6313ab411f86b57704525e7c7.jpg ea09307179d75437031e4d74585565f7 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/82aa2b916e08e209401aa1829d5f3a80.jpg 8d506074e64d71c179c496635a514893 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 1927-1928, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin October 3, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin October 3, 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 October 3, 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 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin China My dear Mr. Sun: I have read with great interest your letter of August 31 received only a day or two ago. The same mail brought me a most interesting letter from Quincy, and I am hoping to hear from Arthur erelong. Quincy evidently feels a good bit discouraged over the conditions which he finds in China on his return after his long absence, in foreign lands. This is natural enough, I suppose, but I have tried to impress upon all these boys that they are to have a wonderful chance to help set right the things which they are disposed to criticize and that that should be one of the great objects of their lives. Please remember me most warmly to both of the boys when you see them. Yes, I received duly and acknowledged at the time your remittance of July 1st to the amount of $5.000.00 and have credited the same, one-third each, to the accounts of Charles, Thomas, and Mary. I hope to send you the statements of the five accounts, including those of Arthur and Quincey, within the next few days. I shall transfer, as authorized by you in an earlier letter, to the accounts of the three children still in this country whatever balances remain on the accounts of Arthur and Quincey. To date I have not done this, as one or two late bill a contracted by the boys just before they sailed have come in only recently and I feared that there might possibly be others, that doesn’t seem likely now to be a probability. Charlie writes me enthusiastically of his life and work: at Amherst this fall. I have not heard from Tom since the college year opened though I did have a little from him shortly before the opening and after he had returned to the college town. He made a much better record at Middlebury last year than I dared hope for and feel very much encouraged. Mary writes me that she finds the work at Elmira much more interesting this year than last, and I am glad of that. Since my last letter to you, in which I encouraged Mary’s desire to take a course at the Yale University Nursing School, Mary has written me of receiving a letter from you urging her to perfect herself in stenography and typewriting. Apparently she accepted the suggestion and plans to do as you requested. Curiously, Mr. Tsai, Ting-kan, whose two children are also under my care at present, wrote me that long ago urging very strongly that his daughter Helen take special work of this same kind. He seems to feel that there is an increasing in China for girls who have had this training to secure worth-while positions and be able to render a real service. What you write me of the weather in Shanghai and Tientsin certainly inspires sympathy to those who are forced to endure it. One summer here was unusually cold and rainy, as was the early fall. Just now we are passing through what we call an Indian summer, the temperature for the last few days having been up between the 80’s and 90’s, a range which you would doubtless call cool but which is unusual for us this season. I have no doubt that you will talk over freely and fully with Arthur and perhaps Quincey the life and work of your three children who are still here. If, as the result of these in their situations which I ought to know and by knowing which I would be better able to direct them as you would wish, please feel perfectly free to tell me, even if the telling must assume the form of criticism. I am clearly sensible of my own limitations in doing for these children all that I would like to do and that which will prove in the end wholly for their best interests. My chief wish, however, is and has always been to carry out to the best of my ability your wishes and to help you realize in these children those high ideals and worthy ambitions which you have always cherished for them. To accomplish this, complete frankness is essential, and I shall always welcome such from you. With sincere good wishes and kindest personal regards, believe me Faithfully yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e5466125a9044ea2840d73d3d384ded0.jpg 16e526994580dfe74dd7b53324d8eb6b 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 1927-1928, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin July 9, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin July 9, 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 9, 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 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road, Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Sun: I have your interesting letter of May 31 and am sorry to learn of your recent illness. By this time I trust that you will have recovered completely your normal good health and strength. Arthur and Quincey are planning to start this week, I believe, for the West in order to sail for China the latter part of this month. This, at least, was their last report to me. Quincey telephoned me from Boston only yesterday; so I assume that they have not departed yet. Mary has settled at Ithaca, New York, for the summer to take summer courses at Cornell. She wrote me just yesterday that she was there and had made her arrangements for the summer. Tom hopes to secure some kind of work, and, if not, will probably take a summer course or two at Boston University. Charlie, I think, plans something of the same kind, though he has not written me fully yet just what the ultimate arrangements are to be. Arthur, Charlie, and Mary, together with Quincey Sheh, came out to Andover a short time ago to see me, and I had the pleasure of introducing them at that time to Admiral Tsai, Ting-kan’s two children who happened to be with me prior to joining their summer camps. I hope to send the statement of the acconnts within the next few days. It has been difficult to know just how far I should yield to the request of the children for extra funds to purchase presents to take and send home, but I have assumed that you approved the granting of these requests. Apparently the expenses incident to the actual journey have proved a little heavier than was anticipated at the start by the travelers, for only within a day or two I have been appealed to for extra remittance of this kind. With sincere good wishes and kindest regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f3ac17a399e101e93df2b4b6910f24ba.jpg 257710919261ce9c332b512bb2beb1b3 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a8aac21ccc3f5a66428179fc565ef20d.jpg bfcab126ab38f6a8653059352dcc4dac 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 1927-1928, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin December 13, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin December 13, 1928 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 13, 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 Relation A related resource December 13, 1928 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: Let me thank you for your letter of November 14, which has just reached me. I am forwarding the enclosed letter written by you to Mary to Mary at her New Haven address, and I have read with keen interest the copy which you were good enough to send to me. I hope with all my heart that this most recent experience may prove of constructive value to Mary in bringing her to realize a little more clearly her responsibilities and in developing within her a clearer perception of her proper obligations to you. So far as I am concerned, I shall count any anxiety or trouble I may have suffered through Mary’s actions as more than worth while if the results are indicative of stronger character and higher ideals for living for her. I have only recently been in correspondence with the Dean of the Yale University School of Nursing in order to find out just how Mary is getting along and what her prospects are for a successful career in her chosen line. From what the Dean writes me, I imagine that the freshman year is the hardest in that it embraces a good deal of book work in Anatomy, physiology, Psychology, etc., some of which apparently does not come easy to Mary, though I understand that she is maintaining an excellent standing in Chemistry and Anatomy. The Dean seems to feel that she will do better in Psychology and Physiology as she becomes better acquainted with the work. If she is able to secure eventually a good standing in her work. I have no doubt that she will give an increasingly better account of herself as she indulges in the more practical work which is to come later. Charlies and Tom seem both to be going along in a very satisfactory way. Only this morning, I had nice letter from Charlie telling me of his plans for the Christmas holidays and the general character of his work and life this year. Tom’s college record to date has been on the whole much letter than I anticipated it would be when first entered college. The vacations are naturally difficult times for the children, and I only regret that my own situation is such that I cannot offer them the full friendly privileges of my home as I was able to do in the earliest yours of their stay in this country. Again let me assure you of my appreciation of the spirit in which you have always cooperated in every endeavor I have put forth in the best interests of the children. May I express, too, along with my heartiest and friendliest Christmas and New Year greetings, the hope that you will have completely recovered by the time this letter reaches you from the sickness from which you were suffering when you wrote me your last letter on November 14. Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/063b6f86dc4637ad118c2f5a738b5f44.jpg a1a97f67d05db4814e9a2e395bde9599 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 1927-1928, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin September 17, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin September 17, 1928 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 September 17, 1928 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource September 7, 1928 Mr.C.Y.Sun, 44 Cambridge Road, Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Sun: On my return to Andover from my summer holiday, I find your letter of July 13, in which you advise me that you have ordered payment to me in your children’s behalf of the sum of four thousand dollars from the National City Bank of New York. The check in question was received during my absence and has been duly credited to the accounts of the three children, one-third of the amount to each. I hope to be able to send you the detailed statements of their accounts within the next few days, or as soon as the rush of the opening of the school year is over. Both Charlies and Tom have written me recently and are returning this week to their colleges for the new college year. Mary at present is visiting Mr.Sze at his summer home and seems to be very happy over the prospect of taking up her new work at the Yale Nursing School this fall. Both Tom and Charlie have done steady and on the whole excellent work this past year and I have been for the most part very well satisfied with and happy over their progress. Since the children entered their various colleges, it has been my custom to send them lump sums to cover their college and other expenses since it is practically impossible for me to take care of the individual bills contracted from time to time and to follow their expenditures in the detailed way that I was accustomed to do when they were here in Andover and right on the ground. I have followed their expenditures, however, as carefully as I could, and have them submit from time to time detailed statements. On the whole, I think they have done very well. Tom especially has pleased me because his earlier tendencies were to extravagance, tendencies which since he has been in college seem to have been disappearing. He and Charlie do not vary very much, I find, in the amounts which they deem it necessary to spend, and as Charlie has always been pretty steady in this respect, I am inclined to believe that my judgment in Tom’s case is on the whole justified. This is the busiest season of the school year, so that I am necessarily making this a somewhat brief letter. It carries with it, however, my sincere regards and my best wishes for the health and happiness of yourself and your family. Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9d5c6afd8dca95dab19cff0cc746756a.jpg 86c57c3d8773fe3f549263eac72c10e6 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 1927-1928, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin June 26, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin June 26, 1928 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 26, 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 Relation A related resource June 26, 1928 Mr. C.Y.Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China Dear Mr. Sun: Many thanks for your most interesting letter of May 23. You will be interested to know that Mary is already at work arranging for a transfer from Elmira College to the Yale University School of Nursing. I have just written her urging her to see that every detailed requirement of the Nursing School is met to the full and that prompt information be sent them whenever it is requested. I most sincerely feel that this new work is going to change Mary’s attitude towards her work in this country and towards life in general and that it will make possible for her a life of that high and unselfish service to mankind for which your own friends so deeply revere you and which I am sure you most wish to see perpetuated in your own children. I think that we have definitely turned Charlie from any further and foolish thoughts about military training. After all that has been going on in China of late, he must realize, for he was a very sensible head, that the last thing in the world that China needs just now is a military leader. With a legal background, Charlie would be admirably adapted to statesmanship of a high order, for a combination of legal training and Charlie’s high moral standards would prove a tremendous asset in these days of China’s unrest. Tom’s final term report indicates even a little better work this pattern than before, and with this I am greatly pleased. Please remember me most warmly to Arthur and Quincey, and believe me with kindest personal regards always Sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/886047b6a87d5b94e12c0832863cba29.jpg dfa37bbcbea9605b86427fdcd08b6557 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c57fc430482383401c678c63f1a1bced.jpg 8820ca2391081572bf1dc7ab1737222d 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 1927-1928, 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 William E. Souter, Shanghai June 12, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to William E. Souter, Shanghai June 12, 1928 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, 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 Relation A related resource Mr. William E. Souter 3 Hankow Road Shanghai, China My dear Mr. Souter: Thank you for your good letter of April 26 and for your thoughtfulness in sending me a copy of the “World’s Health.” The latter I have not yet received, but I am sure I shall enjoy reading it when it comes. and especially the reference to Mr. Sun. From all I have heard of Mr. Sun, not only from you but from others, and from the wonderful letters he has written me from time to time, I can't believe that your estimate of his character is a bit overdrawn. It is my hope that some day I may have the pleasure of meeting him and more intimately acquainted. I am especially pleased to hear that Arthur is doing something that appears to you to be a "real job". Frankly, I have had some misgivings as to the value a good many of these Chinese boys derive from their education and stay in America, and it is mighty reassuring to that some, at least, are buckling down and really going to work on their return to their home land. Both Charlie and Tom seem to be doing very well at Amherst and Middlebury Colleges, respectively, the latter much better than I had anticipated. Mary, on the other hand, has been having a hard struggle at Almira College and has been dissatisfied and unhappy there from the start. She has begged me for some time to persuade her father to let her take a regular nurse training course and give up the ordinary college course in which she finds little interest and on which she makes very slow progress. In connection with its Medical School ,Yale University now has a regular course for the training of nurses, and since I think Mary has unquestionably talents in that line, I have finally secured Mr. Sun’s consent to such an arrangement, though evidently the consent was given very reluctantly. I may be wrong, but it does seem too bad if Mary really wishes to train for some useful service in the world that she should not have this opportunity, and I can’t quite see what real advantage to her a mere college degree would be, though I realize that our Chinese friends rate it pretty high and generally without, regard to what it actually signifies. Anyway, at the moment Mary and I are negotiating with the Yale authorities to see whether the transfer can satisfactorily be made. It has been my thought that Mary might fit herself to fill a position later of superintendent of a hospital or something of that kind, a position of real importance from an American viewpoint, though perhaps not quite that through Chinese eyes. Again thanking you most warmly for your friendly letter and trusting that you and your good wife are weathering all the political and other storms that seem to be beating all over China in these days, believe me with kindest personal regards Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns William E. Souter https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bcdedb135dacc6741ed83eb881792eb8.jpg 0dfd3665b3d7f7492728bed6762da258 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 1927-1928, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 21, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 21, 1928 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 21, 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 Relation A related resource May 21,1928 Mr. C.Y.Sun 44 Cambridge Tientsin, China Dear Mr. Sun: Thank you for your letter of April 21. I shall give a good deal of thought to Mary’s problem before allowing her to make any radical changes in her present plans. In the meantime I shall, of course, take into most careful consideration all of the suggestions which you have so wisely offered. I do not think that you need to worry about Charlie seeking a military career, for I am sure that at heart the boy has no real talent or interest in that particular line. He ought not to have, in any case, unless he should find the profession a medium for doing so something really worth while economically, morally, and politically for his country, and the the history of the nations of the world reveals only too clearly the fact such rare leaders are few and far between. As I wrote in my letter to you of April 24, the remittance of $4,000, to which you refer, was duly received from the national City Bank of New York. The check came direct from the Bank without any other comment than that it was being forwarded at your request and so I acknowledged Its receipt at the time, February 4, 1928, direct to the Bank. The amount in question was deposited at once and to the credit of Charles, Thomas, and Mary which I assumed to have been your wish. With personal regards, believe me always Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8a7667fc7bcbfef3820d1318cb060bb3.jpg 8a8e49bb9cdcbd077a021b8e4a090e76 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cf51df2f12538052a2506d7dceff39f1.jpg 95e133d28f57ddf4b7051445a46c4089 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 1927-1928, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin April 24, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin April 24, 1928 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 24, 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 Relation A related resource April 24, 1928 C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: I have your letter of March 27. for which please accept my thanks. The remittance of $4,000.00, to which you refer, was duly received from the national City Bank of New York. As the check came direct from the Bank without any other comment than that it was being forwarded at your request, I acknowledged its receipt at the time, February 4, direct to the Bank. Evidently I should have mentioned this in my next letter to you, as well, though I assumed that evidence of the fact that the check had been duly delivered to me would come to you through the local branch office in Tientsin. The sum was divided, as usual, between the accounts of the three children, one-third to each. As to Mary’s further work, I am still troubled, but I shall not press the matter further until you have received and had a chance to consider carefully the suggestion offered by the Dean of Elmira College and which I forwarded to you in a recent letter under date of April 17. In at least two of my earlier letters I had expressed my interest in the nursing plan for Mary but had gathered that you would not be satisfied to have Mary take such a course. Dean Harris’s suggestion is apparently a voluntary one on her part, since I did not even know that Elmira College provided such an arrangement as she outlines. May I give herewith one paragraph which appears in a letter which I wrote you on March 17, last, and which will indicate definitely that I have had this matter in mind: Mary still plods along without much success in her studies and with an evident lack of enthusiastic interest in her work. Very little while I get distinctly depressed letter from her which prompts me to send her cheering and encouraging words, for she evidently needs to be strengthened in this way in her endeavor. Personally, I can't help regretting very deeply that it has not seemed wise to you to let Mary take a course at the Nurses Training School at Yale for example, a plan which has long Appealed deeply to her and in which she would seem to have a genuine interest. Evidently, too, she has some natural gifts for this sort of work, which, as I intimated in an earlier letters, is coming more and more in this country to be regarded as a high grade profession for women. The fact that Yale University has recently added the course to its regular graduate courses is indicative of the trend of sentiment. Perhaps I am wrong, but I can’t help feeling that Mary’s college degree, if she succeeds in reaching that goal, is not likely to prove of any special value to her in her later life. If she were a natural scholar and had been able to hold a higher rank in her studies, I might hold a different opinion. Of course I understand that you will be keenly disappointed if Mary returns to China without a regular college degree, even though I am inclined to think that many of the Chinese who are studying in this country are disposed to overemphasize the value of a college degree by itself alone. After all it should be what the degree stands for rather than the degree itself that counts. In Mary’s case it begins to seem as if the regular college degree was out of her reach, though it is difficult for me believe that she has not the actual ability to secure one. The Dean’s latest intimation that Mary might have to give up her college course at Elmira unless some readjustment in her course of study were made natural stirred my interest. I wrote at once to Mary begging her to bend every effort to avoid such a catastrophe, but I am not sure that she can do this now except possibly along some such line as Dean Harris suggests in the letter which I have sent you, and I know from recent letters that Mary has written me that she herself is thoroughly discouraged. I am urging her again to keep up her courage and do her best with the present tasks assigned her, at least until we hear further from you. Charlie and Tom both seem to be doing very well in their respective colleges. The records which come to me from time to time, and which I have forwarded to you, indicate eminently satisfactory progress. I do hope that I may be able later to send you better reports of Mary’s standing and progress as well. With kindest personal regards, Believe me, Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9485330d4acda042dc75379811b08975.jpg c548e1abe1b3dba864571be7e8ab0458 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9ec5effdfe2d2d83a2d35aa8b2c67df6.jpg 26210a653ba02c4f35e7b5c6e28d835e 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 1927-1928, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin March 17, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin March 17, 1928 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 March 17, 1928 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource March 17. 1928 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: Many thanks for your good letter of "February 22 and for the accompanying copy of year letter to Charlie. I am inclined to share your judgment as to the wisdom of a military course for Charlie. Just why the boy leans that way, I can't understand, for he is anything but a militarist in spirit. He is naturally a scholar, idealistic, and with definite literary gifts. You are absolutely sound in your contention that what China needs today more than well trained generals is men who are trained to fill responsible positions in your government and Courts. Charlie would seem to admirably fitted by nature for this sort of work, and I shall urge very strongly on him the admirability of making that kind of a future his goal. Your judgment as to Norwich University, however, is not quite fair. West Point, of course, stands out preeminently as the best military college in the United States. Outside of West Point there are three or four institutions to which the Government extends aid and over which it exercises a certain amount of supervision because of the high caliber of the work done. Boys graduating from these institutions are granted by the Army definite credits, and many of them take high positions in the Amy and (government service in later life. In this limited group Norwich stands very high although it is a comparatively small institution and not often in the public eye. For a boy unable to gain admission to West Point I know of no institution that could probably give him a better military and all-round training than Norwich. Mary still plods along without much success in her studies and with an evident lack of enthusiastic interest in her work. Every little while I get a distinctly depressed letter from her which prompts me to send her cheering and encouraging words, for she evidently needs to be strengthened in this way in her endeavor. Personally, I can’t help regretting very deeply that it has not seemed wise to you to let Mary take a course at the Nurses Training School at Yale, for example, a plan which has long appealed deeply to her and in which she would seem to have a genuine interest. Evidently, too. She has some natural gifts for this sort of work which, as I intimated in an earlier letter, is coming more and more in this country to be regarded as a high grade profession for women. The fact that Yale University has recently added the course to its regular graduate courses is indicative of the trend of sentiment. Perhaps I am wrong, but I can’t help feeling that Mary’s collage career, beyond the final attainment of a college degree, if she succeeds in reaching that goal, is not likely to prove of any special value to her in her later life. If she were a natural scholar and had been able to hold a higher rank in her studies. I hold a different opinion. I hear little from Tom directly during the college year, but such reports as I get from time to time indicate that he has been giving a good account of himself at Middlebury College. Please remember me most warmly to Arthur who, I trust, is measuring up to your hopes and expectations for him, and believe me with kindest personal regard Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cfdb9a605b5a9599fccaac16637c9730.jpg ff3517f6d0c1d3f4d5f57c9d19c627fb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 30 Sun Siblings 1930-1932, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai June 26, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai June 26, 1930 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 26, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource June 26, 1930 Mr. C. T. Sun Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee 13 Jinkee Road Shanghai, China My dear Mr. Sun: I have read with the greatest interest your frank and friendly letter of May 27, and thank you heartily for it, and also for the friendly way in which you have accented my perhaps unwarranted suggestions as to Tom and Charlie and their futures. First, let me express my heartiest sympathy with you in the loss of your daughter. I shall say nothing to the children, of course, though as you say the news may naturally filter through to them by way of other channels. I am sorry indeed that you have had to carry this added burden after the load you have carried for so long in behalf of others. The latest plan for Tom, after further talks with him, is that he shall put in the current summer in the special summer school in French held each year at Middlebury College. This is one of the best modern language schools of its kind in this country, and I feel that Tom will be far better off in this old environment where he is so well adjusted than he would be if he were wandering about, or especially located in New York. In the fall he will go to Yale for his post-graduate work, unless, of course, something develops in the meantime to alter the plan by offering a more attractive opportunity elsewhere. It is doubtful, of course, whether I can hope to get him a position in our State Department, but I am willing to inquire of Secretary Stimson, who is a personal friend, and who just possibly may be able to give us some worth while advice. Again my thanks for your very kind and explicit letter, and with warm personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns