64 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1987090504100b75088340ca7e9d3c14.jpg 888066ce3084de1f30f7d9ff11108dfd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings July-December 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, September 28, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, September 28, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Year telegram has just reached me, but unfortunately I wrote your father several weeks ago, and prompted by your own urgent request, endorsing heartily your proposed plan to take the course at the Yale Nursing School. I shall await the receipt of your letter with interest to know what has led you to change your plans so suddenly but in the meantime I am sending this note at once so that you may know how matters stand. Every sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 28, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0a2870f89d3d8676e149f9945e522e94.jpg 24e03c68519a1b2993bb9798dcec66f7 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, April 18, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, April 18, 1928 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 18, 1928 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I have just read with interest your letter written last Sunday and am sorry to learn that your father has once more vetoed the nurse proposition. Curiously, after hearing from your Dean only a few days ago, I wrote your father enclosing the Dean’s letter and urging once more that favorable consideration be given to your expressed desire to train for nursing. As Miss Harris and I are both agreed that this would seemingly be wise, I dared hope that our joint recommendation might produce some effect. From what you write me, however, I am naturally fearful that we shall not accomplish much. In the meantime if your father has expressed his desire for you to take shorthand and typewriting, go at this at once and with all the enthusiasm you can command. At your age it will mean hard and steady work, but you can accomplish much even against the handicap of age, provided you will give the work your serious and constant attention. I am very much disappointed at the low marks lately reported from the Dean’s Office, for it is evident that, unless your standing can be distinctly bettered, the college authorities are not likely to be willing to have you return next year and complete the course. That would mean that a transfer to another college would be wholly out of the question I can’t believe that you need to or will be willing to face a real catastrophe like this and I am still convinced that earnest effort on your part can prevent it. Since your father has expressed himself so definitely, there is only one thing for you to do and that is to abide by his wishes and do the best that is within your power with the courses you are carrying. I shall look forward hopefully to later reports which I earnestly trust may be of a far more satisfactory kind. With all good wishes, believe me Ever sincerely yours, Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy 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/f9ab97ec5102e11861156690fcb6d212.jpg 0c80932f92a52d53d24d97fd83bf8594 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings July-December 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, December 1, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, December 1, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: Thanks for your letter of November 27. I am enclosing check for $300.00 to enable you to replenish your bank account. If I were you, I should go frankly to your Dean and tell her in confidence that you do not believe you are benefited by rooming with your present chum. Put it, perhaps, on the ground that those of different nationalities find it difficult to be congenial and to make proper adjustments. I do not think you need to say anything that would involve your roommate unpleasantly, but I do think you ought to make the change if you feel that her ideals are wholly different from yours and her influence not helpful. I am perfectly sure that your father would not wish you for a minute to stay with a roommate who did not meet his ideals of what a girl ought to be. No, I have not heard further from your father in connection with the Nurses School proposition. The moment I do, however, you will hear from me in turn, and promptly. Nor have I heard from Arthur recently, though he promised to write me frequently after his return. I have not heard that Henry Yuan has been expelled from Hamilton. I hope it isn't true. Within a few weeks I am due at Hamilton College for a preaching engagement, and I can then find out the truth. What are the plans for the Christmas holidays? I do not quite understand from your letter. Do you mean that you are going to stay in Elmira, and, if so, just where? With every best wish, believe me, Always sincerely yours. ABS/G Enc. 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 1, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/507f88d6c5a411c6d8071f4671cc554b.jpg 54d7354e49fe13ca6b3969704ede68b8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings July-December 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, December 21, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, December 21, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Many thanks for your note telling me just how and where you are to pass the holidays. Needless to say I hope that you will be able to get some real enjoyment out of the vacation and a real rest also. A Merry, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you. Faithfully yours, ASS/G Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 21, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8d0c074b4cc0692d23eeee7de690c10e.jpg e6a080392dd42cb1e94abc8aecec05c9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, February 23, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, February 23, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: Thank you for your letter of February 20. I am glad to know that you are going to be able to make the Washington trip for the spring vacation. This is the best possible way you could spend the holidays, and I am sure that Mr. and Mrs. Sze will give you a wonderfully good time. Yes, I read of the suicide of one of your Elmira girls and naturally I was shocked. A girl must be pretty poor stuff to play the supreme coward in a way like that and only because she had incurred a just penalty for misbehavior. No girl, unless she had been badly spoiled or was temporarily out of her mind, could have done such a contemptible thing as to take her own life, bringing thereby on her family and friends who are wholly innocent tragic sorrow and broken hearts. I hope she was no friend of yours. I can’t for the moment recall whether your reports came to me or not. If they did, I sent them on to your father. In any case I had already heard from the Dean what they were likely to be, and I congratulate you on coming through so well. As I wrote you earlier, I felt sure you could and would pass the work and that your expressed discouragement was not in any way justified. Can’t you do something to get your landlady to improve the heat in your room. It is not right that you should be forced to wear coats in the house, and something must be wrong. With all good wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 23, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c1d8b1708c4429c62fed313db477cf9a.jpg 67129aecfa11e86f9aa471063f596445 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, February 24, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, February 24, 1928 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: I received your telegram yesterday and immediately forwarded a check for $300.00, as requested. I hope this will have reached you safely by the time this letter arrives. By all means keep in touch with a good doctor and don’t let that old trouble get going again. I am sure that it can be curbed, if not actually eliminated, under the right treatment. I do hope that you are feeling easier also about your college work, for I can't believe that you have been doing as poorly as you intimated in an earlier letter. In the meantime I shall continue to urge your father to let you take the nursing course, though evidently he is not inclined to approve the plan. Just why, I don't know, unless it be that in China the profession has not yet reached the high position which it is rapidly coming to occupy here in the United States. With all best wishes, believe me Ever sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/495b6f4ab2a0ca794314f20ebb7980f9.jpg 270de358399d30cd8fdaf07682a6aaec 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, February 4, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, February 4, 1928 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Your letter reached me last night, and as I am leaving town shortly for a week-end at Amherst, I can only send you a brief word now. Please don’t talk any more nonsense. I am sure the college authorities are not going to flunk you out without more warning than I have had; in fact I have had nothing whatever to indicate that they were dissatisfied with your work. Go to see your friend the Dean at once and talk things over, and please don’t talk any more nonsense like that in your letter until you have some real grounds for concern. I, too, am sorry indeed that we have not heard from your father approving the proposed course in nursing. I shall write him again on this point, though I am afraid he may get a bit impatient with me and think perhaps that it is really none of my business. In the meantime there is only one thing to do, and that is to continue with your present work and do it just the best you now how. That much I am sure I can count on you to do, and it is the only course that will get you anywhere in the long run. Ever sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 4, 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/40516a971956a31b12b71b62b1bd66f3.jpg 0cae20150b85607e57beaaa26d539c28 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, February 8, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, February 8, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: Thank you for your last letter. I am returning Minister Sze's letter, which you and not I should answer. The Minister had already written to me expressing his wife's desire to invite you to be her guest during the spring holidays and I had written him expressing my hearty approval of the plan. This will be much better for you than to remain in Elmira. Please write Mrs. Sze at once, therefore, and tell her how grateful you are for her invitation. I am sorry that chicken pox is prevalent at Elmira. You ought to be thankful that no more serious disease is around. Chicken pox may make you uncomfortable for a day or two, but it is a pretty mild affliction at best. With all good wishes, believe me Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 8, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun 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/19f4ed069d1916459a3f2fdd19d7b797.jpg 1b315624f2887e2883939afa6263bc7f 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, June 5, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, June 5, 1928 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Thank you for your letter just received with its detailed description of your financial needs and worries. I am enclosing check for $500.00 as requested, and am glad to give my approval to your proposed visit with your Chinese friend. Be sure to let me know as soon as you arc able to just what your summer address is to be. Very sincerely yours, P. S. I find with this $500.00 you will have had $2400.00 since the beginning of the current school year. I am assuming that this will carry you until the first of the next year, but even on that basis the amount in question seems to me tremendously excessive and certainly far more than your brothers are spending at the same time, though they face, as you do, the regular expenses connected with a college course. 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, 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