70 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3d17593e9f4edea3e65da0b1a4cf329f.jpg b8dd4482a7ec92974a556a432afe84bf 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 1929, 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 Thomas Sun, Middlebury College March 22, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury College March 22, 1929 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 22, 1929 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 22, 1929 Mr. Thomas Sun D. M. House Middlebury, Vt. Dear Tom: I have just received your letter of March 20 with the accompanying copy of your sister-in-law’s letter to me. Of course, I share to the full your anxiety about your father, but I regret to say that I am not able to add anything to what your sister-in-law has written, for as you will note, her communication to you is only the copy of her letter to me from which I learned for the first time of your father’s serious illness. I did gather from the latter, however, that it was the feeling that the real crisis had been passed in your father’s condition, and that he war regaining his health end strength, though vary slowly. Indeed, the letter of which you have a copy, was written on February 17. In the same mail came another brief note from your sister-in- law dated February 20, three days later, in which she added, "Regarding my father-in-law’s health. He has pulled throws and is now out of danger. He is still so weak and takes a little soft diet, We all hope he will soon be recovered to his usual health". In view of this last note, I think you can rightly cheer up a lot, for certainly it is much more encouraging than the first report, and I am sure that if things had grown worse you would have heard something direct from home. Trusting that the next news you get may be even better than this last, and wishing you every success for the rest of your college year, believe me always Sincerely yours Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ae47459d1eeb54c825ca6f90fbb1039c.jpg a2fce8cc87fa22dc95f97e234fb5b263 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 1929, 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 College March 22, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst College March 22, 1929 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 22, 1929 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 22. 1929 Mr. Charles Sun Amherst Collage Amherst, Mass. Dear Charlie: Tom has sent me the copy of your sister-in- law's letter to me dated February 17, and Tom is naturally terribly worried about his father's condition. I assume, of course, that you must be also. I am writing Tom by this same mail, and am sending the same word to you, that I received in the same mail with the letter in question an additional and brief note from your sister-in-law dated February 30, three days later, in which she writes, "Regarding my father-in-law's health. He has pulled through and is now out of danger. He is still so weak and takes a little soft diet. We all hope he will soon be recovered to his usual health." This last is certainly good news, and I feel that we are all justified in feeling hopeful and ceasing to worry unduly. I am sure that if your father's condition had grown any worse, we would have heard something before this direct from your own home. Ever faithfully yours. AES/C Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/69f5e9fc4a701ebf822ca95cb0ab0009.jpg ceb597602ffedbbc8e8b7df36f2d50ea 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 1929, 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 Thomas Sun, Middlebury College March 12, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury College March 12, 1929 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 12, 1929 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 12, 1929 Mr. Thomas Sun D. U. House Middlebury, Vermont Dear Tom: Thanks for your letter and the detailed account of your expenditures to date. The latter I am filing in your receipt envelope and I am forwarding a check for four hundred dollars as requested. Evidently it does not pay to let your bank account drop below fifty dollars for that involves a needless expense, so I am sending the larger amount. I have Just written Charlie and would make the same suggestion to you also that Ifhyro have any problems to discuss with me and are going to be in this general vicinity during your Easter holidays, come out here some day and let's have a good old-fashioned talk. By the time you get through writing all of those theses you have mentioned you ought to be ready for something savoring of a let-down. With all good wishes, believe me Very sincerely yours. A2S/C Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1539224e16ec9f89d01d63239d2cf80b.jpg d872c369bf055051c0147147f11f0f14 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 1929, 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 College March 12, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst College March 12, 1929 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 12, 1929 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 12. 1929 Mr. Charles Sun P.O.Box 93 Amherst, Mass. Dear Charlie I have read with the keenest Interest your letter received this morning and am very glad to know that your father has finally decided to allow you to make the decision in regard to returning home. It seems to me that he is wise in doing this, and I am sure that you will do what you yourself consider wisest in the matter. Frankly, I believe you ought to go back at the end of your college course. If after being at home a few months or a year and having a chance to look over the situation for yourself at first hand you feel that some further and specialised work in this country would fit you better to serve your country later, then it will be within your proper province to come back again. If not, I am sure that you will at least be able and eager to render valuable service to China at a time of great need on the basis of your training and study to date. Frankly, it seems to me that what the new government in China needs more than anything else just now is men of high ideals and sterling character who will stand against every insidious influence for honesty and justice in public as in private life. Since I am confident that you are made of that fine stuff, I cannot help feeling that you will render a bigger service to your country through your personal influence than you will even through your knowledge of economic laws and your study of economic problems. It was certainly fine to have that little chat with you up at Amherst last week, and I regret more than I can say that they kept me so busy that day that I had no chance to see more of you and talk over your problems in greater detail. If you care to discuss these further, can’t you run out hero for a day at least during the coming Easter holidays? In the hope that I am not advising you wrongly and with the confidence that I and your many friends are going to have increasing grounds for pride in you throng your later achievements and influence, believe me Ever faithfully yours, Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/28483cfdb013b0af257ab7a72affb795.jpg 646aafece4a5538c08519ce2e0297ab9 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 1929, 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 February 28, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin February 28, 1929 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 28, 1929 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 February 26. 1929 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: I am writing to acknowledge the receipt, through the National City Bank of New York, of the sum of $4.000.00 from you which I am placing to the credit of the account, of Charles, Tom, and Mary in equal amounts. The reports received from the boys thus far this year have been highly gratifying. Mary's record still troubles me, and I have had some very frank correspondence with her dean at the Yale Nursing school to discover, if possible, just where the trouble lies. Apparently Mary finds some of the subjects which she has to study in connection with her work very difficult, though she seems perfectly competent to handle the practical end of her tasks. Mary herself feels that she will be able to improve her work as she becomes better acquainted with the subjects on her schedule, and I am hopeful that this will prove true and that I shall be able, therefore,to send you more encouraging reports before the year is over. with kindest personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours. AES/c C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/403e956f3b5ac2a819ee8941576b1fd7.jpg c47eff5c87d616a3a92ccefbced04d41 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 1929, 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. February 19, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass. February 19, 1929 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 19, 1929 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 February 19, 1929 Mr. Charles Sun P. 0. Box 93 Amherst, Mass. Dear Charlie: I have your letter of February 18. and am enclosing a check to replenish your depleted bank account, as requested. We will talk over details when I see you a couple of weeks hence. I should be very reluctant to go back to the monthly installment plan, for you are old enough now to handle your own finances, if you are ever going to do it, successfully,and the experience which you are getting in having your own bank account and discovering how easily it may shrink will be of value to you all through your later life. Further, I am sure that you will not knowingly abuse the privilege of handling your funds in this way, even though you may make mistakes at times. Ever faithfully yours, AES/G EnCe Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/043054570e4ef0ab127fec34993196e0.jpg 91c08aea61106023cf7783dff5f9d664 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 1929, 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, New Haven, Conn. February 16, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn. February 16, 1929 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 16, 1929 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 February 16, 1929 Miss Mary Sun 62 Park Street New Haven, Conn. My dear Mary: I have this morning received your letter and in the same mail one from Dean Goodrich. I have just written Miss Goodrich expressing my approval of the plan to have you secure special tutoring in your Physiology. If with this outside help you are not able to bring your standing up to the proper grade, I think we shall be reluctantly compelled to agree that we must give up the idea of any further education for you in America. I should hate to do this, but I can't see how any other conclusion could properly be reached. What troubles me most is the intimation given by your Dean, an intimation which I also received from your Dean at Elmira, that you have not done work of a grade commensurate with your real ability. Perhaps they are mistaken but I did hope and believe, because of your seeming interest in nursing, that you would convince everyone from the start that you were giving yourself heart and soul to your studies, even though you might not be able to attain a high rank in them. Anyway, the thing to do now is to see Miss Goodrich at once and secure a good tutor. Never mind the expense. Before everything else you must establish your standing in the Yale School and not face the possibility of having to drop out of the end of the year. Very sincerely yours. AES/G Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/669e20762ba17a16799797503972921c.jpg 711bb5f945d483e7efb828eec8c0ae47 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d5c16bc3d6197c50292d690ce6e03ee2.jpg 9dade4b69bcd204c9a3252bdabb8d513 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 1929, 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 Dean Annie W. Goodrich, Yale School of Nursing February 16, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Dean Annie W. Goodrich, Yale School of Nursing February 16, 1929 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 16, 1929 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 February 16, 1929 Dean Annie W. Goodrich 330 Cedar Street New Haven, Conn. My dear Miss Goodrich: The morning’s mail brings me your letter of February 15 and one of the same date from our friend Mary Sun. Needless to say the news conveyed in both letters is not altogether pleasing. I am writing Mary advising her to follow your suggestions and to arrange for immediate tutoring in Physiology, for I agree with you that this should not be postponed until a brief summer vacation. I am assuming that you will be able and willing to recommend a competent tutor for Miss Sun. Mary's father is perfectly capable to bear the expense, and I am sure it is a legitimate one in view of the conditions that confront us at the moment. Mary's record at Yale has been a keen disappointment to me, and I have about given up trying to fathom her mind and purpose. Her father has always been extremely anxious that she should get a college degree in this country from one of our best colleges for women. It seemed very doubtful for several years whether Mary would be able to meet such high standards. I made a special trip to Washington to talk the matter over with Mr. Sze, the Chinese Minister, who is a personal friend of Mr. Sun, and on his recommendation entered Mary in Elmira College out in New York State. She was seemingly unhappy there from the start and floundered pretty steadily in her work. The Dean at Elmira gave me reports almost identical to yours and intimated that Mary had much more ability than she professed or than her achievements indicated. All of this time Mary was constantly pleading with me to be allowed to study nursing. Her father, being an old-fashioned Chinese, could not look upon nursing as a high grade profession. I vigorously advocated the plan to study nursing, however, believing that Mary would be able to do her best under the influence and inspiration of this profession. When she was a member of my household a few years ago, she impressed everyone there with her natural gifts in this direction. I finally succeeded in persuading Mr. Sun that this was the proper thing for Mary to do, and he gave his consent. You can understand, therefore, that it is tremendously disturbing to me to feel that Mary is not doing her best in this particular work for which she claims such a deep interest and in which she unquestionably has talent. Mary's older brother who is at Amherst and who is a sterling follow is as much disturbed over the situation as I am and is inclined to agree with me that if at the end of the year Mary shows that she cannot or will not meet the proper requirements of your school, she should be sent back to China. Anyway, I shall await with keen interest the results of the new arrangement and shall hope most earnestly to hear that Mary io making real progress with the assistance of such outside help as she may be able to secure under your guidance and approval. Very sincerely yours. Annie W. Goodrich Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b702eaa7bb1380fd57b32e1daa4dd516.jpg 97ffdc72b80932ec1faa4280206a367a 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 1929, 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. February 11, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass. February 11, 1929 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 11, 1929 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 February 11, 1929 Mr. Charles Sun P. 0. Box 93 Amherst, Mass. Dear Charlie: Thank you for your note received this morning. I am glad that the examinations are out of the way and hope that means that you will not be working under quite such a strain for the next few weeks, at least. It is difficult for me to find out just how Mary is going in her work, though I have tried on numerous occasions to get the information desired. My impression is that she is really doing a bit better than at the start. At least, though some of her marks, when last I received them, were so seemingly low as to prompt me to write a somewhat severe letter to her. I felt that if she could or would not do well in work which she professed to like so much and which she had been allowed to take only reluctantly, as you know. XX her father and largely because of my own personal pleadings, there was certainly room for real anxiety. Mary always has a good excuse to offer for her failures, and she gave me seemingly good excuses for the low marks in question. If they do not improve by the end of this year, however. I shall seriously question whether Mary ought to stay in this country longer or attempt to go forward in her work. I am due in Amherst the latter part of this month for a Sunday and shall certainly hope to have a chance to talk this all over with you in person. Faithfully yours, AES/G Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/71f9fc210a930adaf663e1eadd2eda06.jpg 590b1c33332fc899d734eb765919a3d2 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/56b78646c0dcdeaf93c441db561fbdae.jpg f053839ec0f2bb8f2faeb5a8448c90da Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 30 Sun Siblings 1923-1926 Folder 2, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin June 7, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin June 7, 1926 Relation A related resource June 7. 1926 Mr. C. T. Cun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: Your exceptionally friendly and appreciative letter of May 12 has just reached me, and I beg to express my very sincere gratitude for your kindly sentiments. I must admit that Mary’s case has furnished a difficult and complicated problem, but thanks to the generous help which Dr. Sze has given me, coupled with my assurance of your confidence, I have been able to work out the problem, I think, to a fairly satisfactory conclusion. Within the past day or two I have received assurance from Almira College that Mary will be granted admission credits on the work she has already covered at Abbot and the Whittier School for 14 1/3 points out of the 15 points for admission. It is suggested that she work up some Algebra during the summer to complete the requirement and that, so far as possible, also, she should broaden her preparation in English and possibly French. Just at resent I was trying to work out the best solution for the summer, and I think that I am on the right track. The first plan suggested by Dr. Sze, and highly approved by me, was to locate Mary for the summer in the home of a member of the faculty of Almira College where she would have not only necessary instruction but wholesome influence and proper guidance. The plan fell through at the last minute, as the good woman on whom Dr. Sze had counted for this work decided to pass the summer abroad. No other suitable place or person appeared to be available. Dr. Sze then suggested that Mary might spend the summer at Ithaca, New York, taking work in the Cornell Summer School and living in one of the dormitories reserved, I understand, for girls and over which an officially appointed matron would exercise a certain amount of control. As Dr. Sze advised me further that he, himself, and his family were to spend their summer in Ithaca, it seemed to me that this would perhaps be the best solution of the problem. Frankly, though, I did not quite relish the idea of leaving Mary for the entire summer in a large university town with more or less of a floating and unstable population and subject to the somewhat free and easy influences and ways that are apt to be in evidence under those conditions. I know from experience that the chaperonage provided in university centers and dormitories for girls is often a pretty nebulous thing. One cannot always tell what the strongest influence working on an individual student is going to be. Just after I had tentatively expressed to Dr. Sze my approval of this plan, I was confronted with the problem of providing a place for Mary for the three weeks intervening between the close of her school year at the Whittier School and the beginning of the summer session at Cornell. My own home is in such a turmoil at this time of year, with the commencement season just ahead, that I could not, much to my regret, arrange for Mary to be with me at that particular time. I also hesitated to bring her again in such intimate touch with the influences at and connected with Abbot Academy which had worked so much mischief for us all in the past. Some one suggested the Sea Pines School at Brewster, Mass., a rather unusual school for girls, and which I found had a regular summer session. Friends of mine, who have had their daughters there and who have been wholly concerned about the cultural and Christian influences under which they wished their daughters to come, have spoken to me in the highest terms of this school and its atmosphere. The Misses Bickford, who conduct it, are known to be women of unusually high ideals and character. I called Miss Pickford on the telephone and found to my great satisfaction that she would be willing and glad to take care of Mary for the period in question and that she was even eager to welcome a Chinese girl at the school, believing that her presence would exert a wholesome influence on her own students in whom she has always sought to inculcate more of an international mind. Miss Bickford, herself, happened to be in Boston just when Mary’s school at Merrimac closed; so that the transfer was easily made. Miss Clemons meeting Mary in the city and putting her in Miss Bickford’s charge. I have had a letter from Mary only this morning in which she says that she is very lonesome; but of course that is natural and to be expected, for the first plunge in a new environment is hard enough for anyone, and especially for a foreigner. I shall be greatly surprised if Mary doesn’t find within a short time that the atmosphere at Pines is far more congenial and satisfying than at Whittier. In any case I am strongly disposed just at present to authorize Mary’s continuance at Sea Pines through the summer rather than to take what I feared would be somewhat of a risk by sending her to Cornell. The Sea Pines authorities advised me that a prompt decision will be necessary because their list for the summer is already practically full and in justice to other applicants they must know whether or not Mary is to occupy a place. I have written Dr.Sze about the matter and am inclined to think, from the letter received from him yesterday, that he approves of the plan, although, of course, he doesn’t pretend to know much about the school in question. What I do know is that there is a marked emphasis placed on Christian character and an exceptionally wholesome physical life provided for the pupils, a life which includes sea bathing, horseback riding, tennis, and other outdoor activities. “Whatever the final decision is, I can assure you that it will be the result of careful and prolonged thought and the earnest desire to do only what will prove best for Mary in the end and most nearly in accord with your personal wishing. I hope very much that Mr. Robinson is going to get here before I leave for my summer vacation, though I inferred from a recent letter from Dr. Sze. as well as from a remark which Tom dropped the other day, that he might not appear until early in July. With warm personal regards, 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 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns