65 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d37d5e8a8c0807cdb1ffeb2669884747.jpg bd8aaf33a2f8a5ba2484b055a9cfa953 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, March 10, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, March 10, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Have you begun to think at all of your plans for the coming summer vacation? As you probably know, it is necessary for you to register soon if you are to enroll in any camp or summer tutoring school. I don’t think you ought to plan to study through the entire summer, though naturally you may wish to invest some of the vacation in this way. Please let me know just what you are thinking about in this connection, for I want you to do the right thing and I want to help you so far as I can to do it. 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 March 10, 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/a2fb12d078cf9e76833612653b2fde54.jpg a2fc8366aabdcf190a60509cabadb355 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, March 13, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, March 13, 1928 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: Thank you for your letter with its good news that your health is a bit better than it was when you last wrote me. I hope you have come to realize by this time what Miss Clemons always emphasized with you, that your eczema could be kept in check by and only by a normal amount of wholesome and vigorous exercise. Do not forget it, please. By all means spend your Easter vacation with your friend in Lowville, if you wish and if she is the right kind of a girl. I assume that the latter is true, else you would not wish to go with her. When it comes to your summer plans, I should much prefer to have you at Cornell on general principles, but if you find that the Syracuse environment is better, why try that. Don't go back on your Chinese friends, however, provided they are doing and are interested in the things that really count. I do not see why you should not be able to divide your time and interests in proper proportions between both your American and Chinese friends. What you tell me about the habits and conduct of some of your students at Elmira is naturally disturbing. On the other hand, I can hardly believe that conditions there are worse than they are in other colleges and that more than a very small proportion of the girls show the weaknesses which you mention. In every school and college in the land you will find a group who will behave in this foolish and regrettable way. They are always the noisiest and most conspicuous ones in the whole student body and for that reason give the impression that their numbers are far greater than they actually are. If this is not true at Elmira and things are as bad as you intimate, something must be radically wrong with the college, and it may well be a question whether in that that case you ought to continue there after this current year. Anyway, keep your own head and poise and you will earn not only the satisfaction of your own conscience but the respect and good will of all of your friends in college whose opinions and judgments count. 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 March 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6249d384fe9df5989b6767e32be61462.jpg 345fe1e5694da69cb0fa91af3c039b90 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, May 24, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, May 24, 1928 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Owing to our recent Anniversary celebration and the extra work involved, I have had no chance to answer your letter or follow up its suggestions until today. First of all, I must know what marks you are likely to be able to present to Wellesley or Mount Holyoke College from Elmira at the end of the year. Please send me at once copies of your marks to date covering each year you have been in college, for I must have these in order to present your claims. Another thing, in view of your father’s recently expressed willingness to allow you to take the nursing course, if such a plan meets with my approval, are you wise in planning a doubtful transfer or would it be better to consider seriously the nursing course at Yale? If the latter, will you have sufficient credits as the result of year Elmira work to gain admission next fall? These are the questions that must be definitely decided before I shall feel justified in presenting your case at either of the colleges in question or in sanctioning finally the Nursing School plan. So please write me promptly and fully, for we can’t afford to delay much longer lest we lose out all around. Very 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 May 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/289ddd1018676144f609a7924df1d622.jpg f714331d9e83a640d1674626c219114d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/88c42c1a5a9e529d3f2e1813deb89759.jpg 75fe18d6a988856906f15f468c54a38d 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, May 3, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, May 3, 1928 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: I have read with interest your letter of April 30 just received, and, as requested, I am sending you a check to cover general expenses during the weeks ahead. By all means see what you can obtain from Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges in the way of admission on transfer. I should much prefer to have you in one of these institutions, especially the former, even at the expense of a year’s standing. Let me know just soon as you hear from them and tell me exactly what they have to say. Perhaps it might even help if in your letters you referred them to me as your American guardian and suggested that they write me for further information. I know pretty intimately both President Woolley and President Neilson and might be able to secure their personal interest in your case, and this would help. It may interest you to know that your father in a letter which I received from him only a week or two ago spoke with some favor of the possibility of the nursing course for you. He asked for further information on the matter and said that he had evidently never received the letter in which I pleaded strongly that you be allowed to take a course of this kind. Under the circumstances I did not think that that possibility need be considered longer as altogether out of the question, though frankly I am inclined to feel that, if you can secure admission to Mount Holyoke, for example, and without too serious a loss, it would perhaps be better for you to finish up the general college course. Following that, it might seem wise to round out your education with a year or two of studying nursing. Anyway, I shall await with keen interest the replies from your inquiries at Mount Holyoke and Smith. What about Wellesley? Miss Pendleton, the President, I know perhaps the best of any of the women’s college residents, and I am sure she would deal as generously with the case as conditions would permit. If your father wishes you to take typewriting, I think you ought to get started as soon as possible, but, of course, you can’t do that very well without running a typewriter yourself. For the present my impression is that you would do well to buy a portable machine. Doubtless there is someone connected with your faculty who directs this work and who will perhaps be better able than I to recommend the best kind of a machine for your special needs. With all good wishes, believe me Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 3, 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/077f6437383a351d1a37e9981e5a791c.jpg 51e83f395c9a9494e673c128f0dcb3cd 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, May 31, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, May 31, 1928 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Thank you for your note. I am writing to the Yale School of Nursing for full information and will let you know a little later just how the matter stands and what the prospects are for you to make a satisfactory transfer from Elmira to that institution. 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 May 31, 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/5d9dbef89950199d52c41b2d3a303c49.jpg 96ee8c4021bd7cd3667c7eea1835a84f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5865ffa9d15aab4c4139982fcbf83f2d.jpg 0300b86abba4ac4bb7adde7aa95cd62e 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 September-December 1926, 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, November 2, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, November 2, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: As luck would have it, I made out for you last night the enclosed check for $300.00 and intended to send it in this morning’s mail. On arrival at the office, I find your letter which fits into the program nicely. My idea is to allow you to test out yourself a bit in the handling of funds by having a bank account just as Charlie and Quincy have done since they went to college. As the heavy college bills for the first half year have already been paid and as you secured a pretty generous outfit of clothes before college opened, the sum I am sending should take care of all necessary expenditures for the balance of the term, vacation expenses during the Christmas holidays, and should leave a generous balance for the winter term. If under this arrangement you are able to keep your expenses down within the proper bounds, I shall be only too glad to continue the plan, for it is a much easier one for me to handle and tends to save us both a good bit of unnecessary trouble and annoyance. So please do your best. Be sure, also, to keep a detailed account of all expenditures, one that I can submit to your father, if desired, when the regular accounts are sent home. The ANDOVER TOWNSMAN announces your election to some student governing committee, but as you have not mentioned it in your letters to me, I am wondering whether the report is true, and, if so, how the Townsman happened to know about it before I did. 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 November 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c764a6e76fceb5527ea575f113f38c67.jpg 07c7e3fd7b11065495996043b8866a5d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ac6133a36692bb408f90e28abecb21d6.jpg d0535c13fb9f2e0d5131dd0d47e1635f 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 September-December 1926, 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, November 26, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, November 26, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: Many thanks for your Thanksgiving telegram which I found at the house on my return from Mont Vernon last night, where I had gone to have Thanksgiving dinner with my brother and sister and my two new Chinese wards, Alfred and Helen Tsai. I wonder if you know them? This morning’s mail brings me your letter of November 23. I was on the point of writing you about the Christmas holidays, and your suggestions, therefore, are particularly acceptable. I am perfectly willing to leave the final decision to you and shall be ready to approve of your remaining in Elmira, if that is your preference and other girls do so. the college authorities allow you to occupy your regular quarters, or must you go outside? Further, will there be anyone of authority in charge during the vacation period. I don’t know yet what the boys plan to do, though I imagine that Arthur will be busy with his new Job and will probably have only the day itself off. After I hear from Charlie and Tom, I can tell a bit better perhaps what you yourself should do. Of course I hope you can arrange to get together for part of the vacation, anyway, if the expense isn’t going to be serious. Please let me hear from you, so that I may know a little more clearly what arrangements can be counted on if you remain in Elmira, and believe me with all good wishes. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 26, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6a014db0751271e155ad42b4c170a0b0.jpg 1140dd30c511b2c630bb885dfbb6e287 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 September-December 1926, 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, November 9, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, November 9, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Thank you for your note and for the bill. I find that the earlier bill which you OK’d and returned was placed by my secretary, and by an error, in the envelope in which I keep your receipts. Miss Jones discovered it there when your letter came. Consequently the bill has not been paid but will be at once. I am also in receipt of your note enclosing the receipt for check for $300.00 recently sent you. Your explanation of the source of the publicity you have received in the ANDOVER TOWNSMAN clears the mystery completely, for I know that a good many institutions make a business of sending to the home papers of their pupils any items of news that they think are likely to prove interesting to the home folks. I appreciate your modesty in the matter and, of course, am not going to criticize you for notetelling me of the honors that have come to you. With all good wishes, believe me Ever 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 November 9, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cc42069e796b22df2866ede1330f12e1.jpg 26f4dd624a72831feaed37bc87c843ad 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 September-December 1926, 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, October 12, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, October 12, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Miss Sun: In Dr. Stearns's absence I am writing to say that the enclosed letter. just received, came with the ends of the envelope opened. Apparently the wear and tear of the journey from China is responsible for the condition of the envelope. Very truly yours, Secretary to Dr. Stearns 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 12, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0cc1d6f73992b217edab54cb6a0f0203.jpg d90ae6d8d9083592d22b8f946f15ad14 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 September-December 1926, 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, October 18, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, October 18, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I have your telegram but am a good deal in the dark when it comes to answering your inquiry, since I do not happen to know much about the "Sally Hawkes" to whom your refer. Is she an Elmira College girl or one of the friends made in former schools? How well do you know her and what is her family like? If she is the right kind, as I have no doubt she is, I should be perfectly willing for you to spend a week-end with her provided only the college authorities fully approve of the plan. My impression is that the college does not look great favor on week-end visits for their students, at least early in the college course. This is exactly our position here, and I can understand fully why it is justified. If your Dean will write that she believes the trip wise and desirable thing in this instance, I shall be ready to wire my full approval; otherwise I strongly advise you to wait a little longer before you begin running away from the college and your friends there. 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 October 18, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun