75 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5bddd879e2ce40b1b5fe251a53a7d01a.jpg dd074fe05d510eb751e427b124307218 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 1930, 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, London, October 31, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, London, October 31, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: How good it seems to hear from you again and especially to know that the forbidding fog and dampness of London are not weighing quite so heavily on your spirits as they did at first. I confess that I doubt whether I myself could have made the adjustments necessary if I had been in your place even so soon as you have done. London does not appeal to me a bit, I must admit, but then, I have never been there with a real job on my hands and one can bear almost anything when one is busy. Mary is rounding our [sic] her course at the School for Nursing at Yale, and from all I can learn, is getting along well. She writes only occasionally, to be sure, but always in a happy vein. Her work interests her, and I hope she will be able to continue in the general line when she returns to China, even though I know your father is not enthusiastic about it. Personally, I don’t see how any one could find a better avenue for rendering real service to China than through this channel. No, Tom isn't at Columbia, but at Yale, taking advanced work in Economics and in accordance with his father’s wish. He is not a bit happy there, though, for he finds the life and contacts very different from the intimate and friendly ones he enjoyed in Middlebury. I imagine that he will get adjusted in time, but he is pretty gloomy about it at present. What you write me of the old Andover boys in China is immensely interesting. Do remember me to them when you write if you have occasion to, for I will never lose my interest in them. Poor Quincy - I fear he has had a hard time of it. His last letters to me, though I haven't heard from him recently, expressed keen disappointment, chiefly at the seeming lack of intellectual ambition in his pupils. Further, he was only getting a bit of his pay occasionally, and not all of it at that. As for Charlie Tsai, I haven’t heard a word about him since he went back home. I am afraid he would have to be classed with Tommy Tuan, though perhaps as he gets a bit older, he will develop balance and purpose. So here are greetings from your old and still constant friend in America, and with them every best wish for the days and work ahead. Ever sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearn 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 31, 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 Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/fb9714cb3a9a12c93797195299025797.jpg f660477269240eadd0a93b12d2aae306 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 Telegram from E.R. Greenwood, Secretary to Dr. Stearns, to Thomas Sun, MIT Dorm, July 12, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from E.R. Greenwood, Secretary to Dr. Stearns, to Thomas Sun, MIT Dorm, July 12, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource E.R. Greenwood 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 12, 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 Telegram E.R. Greenwood secretary to Dr. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/368e544d2272fb8526fba260b4496d95.jpg 62dbde2e18ebe25c68f8746dcab69aa4 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 1930, 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 form Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, October 31, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter form Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, October 31, 1930 Relation A related resource 350 Congress Ave New Haven, Conn. Oct 31, 1930 \[Stamp: Received NOV 1 1930 Answered 11/1 File Sun\] Dear Mr. Stearns, Today, I received a notice from my bank saying that I had drawn below one hundred dollars and my checking account is temporarily closed unless I want to pay interest on it each day. I can not reopen it again unless I deposit five hundred dollars to start it over. May I have five hundred dollars - if you approve of it. I have fifty dollars in the bank yet and I am enclosing an account of my expenditure. I only have seen Tom three times because we both have been busy. He is only free on week ends and I work then as well as week days. We shall be very glad to see you when ever you come to New Haven. Please do let us know. Sincerely yours Mary Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/97d1c5065e3df1c8b5231f546e13f1ea.jpg fc0a1a98bbfe5e58698190023b2e5cb3 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, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Cornell University, July 22, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Cornell University, July 22, 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 22, 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 Dear Mary: Your letters of July 8, 11 and 15 have been forwarded to me from Andover. Thanks for your explanations of the reported invitation from Dr. Sze. Of course, if you did not receive his letter, you cannot be blamed for sending no reply. I am enclosing, herewith, a copy of the Deans letter to me so that you can understand the bases of my letter of complaint to you. I can understand, of course, why Dr. Lent should say one thing to you and Miss Harris another, if the latter has not judge[d] the situation fairly. I hope you will write her and try to straighten matters out in her mind. With all best wishes, believe me, Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/61a7cd064c537530d085fe7a5b305375.jpg 130918c5b553054dc1f9ccaedf5f7bf4 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 1930, 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., November 1, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 1, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I have your letter of October 31, and am mailing you as requested a check for five hundred dollars to replenish your bank account and to enable you to face necessary expanses still ahead. I do hope that you and Tom are going to see a good deal of each other while you are together in New Haven. Tom needs a little cheering up apparently, as he finds the life and surroundings at New Haven a good bit different from those to which he had been accustomed at Middlebury. I had a fine letter from Charlie only yesterday and another from Tom in the same mail. Charlie gives me some interesting news of the doings of some of our old Andover boys now in China and intimates that he himself is getting somewhat accustomed to London and is in consequence not quite so homesick as he was at first. Tom clearly finds it hard to adapt himself to his new surroundings at Yale, but I hope that he, too, will in time find that the rough edges will rub off and that life will get increasingly smoother. My very best to you as always. 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 1, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4cfe02d51c545366da4f8f88b9a6ba69.jpg d6b5a8d3f24355aff459a292db27d8c6 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 1930, 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, November 4, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, November 4, 1930 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: It has occurred to me that in the pressure of work at the opening of our school year I may have neglected to send you direct acknowledgment of the receipt of your last remittance of three thousand dollars which reached me on August 25 last, and which was deposited as requested, one half each to the accounts of Mary and Thomas. Sometimes the remittances come in such form as to assure me that the formal receipts which the bank asks me to sign in due season reach you or your bank. This may not always be true, however, and hence I mean to take the added precaution of sending you myself notice that the money has come. The children seem to be progressing well. Mary is nearing her graduation at the Yale Nursing School, and I am sure she must be looking forward eagerly to the chance to see her homeland in the not distant future. I assume that she is to return shortly after her graduation, though I shall await definite advice from you on this point. Tom is, as you know, at New Haven, taking post-graduate work at Yale, he finds the life in a big university and a big city very different from that of the quiet country town and small New England college with which he has been associated for the last four years, and where he made a big place for himself in the esteem and affection of students, faculty, and townspeople alike. His letters have a note of discouragement, but I have a feeling that he will gradually become adjusted to the new conditions and find life increasingly pleasant as a result. Charlie writes me from time to time, and his letters always bring me a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction. He seems also less homesick than during the first months of his London experience. With kindest personal regards, believe me always 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 4, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1d5e35227154e82f137fb9554b8ab2a4.jpg b6895173d93a7555424fc6d5bd4bf955 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/41b1788091c95919c2fd191a1482d8ac.jpg 754cc580c58e9171a605563940d661b6 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/447b59653003c853f59297d307a4da6e.jpg 744061a78219d917f9a7083781a62c65 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 1930, 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, October 27, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, October 27, 1930 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Steams, There are several things which have been on my mind for quite some time of which I wish to seek your advise and opinion. I underatand [sic] that Mary is graduating from the New Haven Hospital this coming June. I have seen her and talked with her several times since I came to New Haven, and by that I gathered, she does not know what she is going to do the next school year. There is a possibility that she might go home after her graduation, and there is also a chance for her to stay here in this country another year to either study more or work. In case, if she does go home this summer, is it not logical that I should see her home, being a man, and she a woman? I only mention this as a chance and not at all sure of its prospects. There are sereval [sic] reasons why I said that. These reasons are very personal and private in nature which I do not like to divulge. I hope that you understand. I never wrote to my father concerning of going home, because I was afraid that it might hurt his feelings, and it might also prove too great a disappointment to him after all the plans he made and sacrifices he underwent. What do you think? Please tell me one way or the other so that I can draw some exact conclusions. Yale is an expensive place to study at. I have practiced extreme economy, and still my expenses are above that which I incurred at Middlebury. I have thought seriously of applying for a fellowship or a scholarship of some kind to make up the difference. It would be futile for me to apply now for the balance of this year, because as a rule, they do not award fellowships and scholarships to first-year-men. However, I will apply for next year,--provided I am coming back to Yale to study and not going home. Please let me know your opinion of the matter. I shall appreciate any advice. The third thing is also financial in nature. I hate to dwell on money all the time, but since New Haven is a rather expensive town, it is necessary for me to do so. However, you may breath easier, because I am not going to ask you for money yet. I will later, probably around the third week of November. Can you tell me just what condition I am in? that is financially speaking. If I apply for the scholarship or fellowship, and succeed in getting one, the sum will vary between three hundred for the lowest and twelve hundred the highest for me. There are some higher ones, but they are for students of far more advanced standing. The usual sum varies between three hundred and eight hundred. I like to apply for one to make up the difference of expense between here and Middlebury. I sometimes think that you might let me go under the same system which you allow Charlie to go--that is let him have all the money you receive from father, and give him whatever balance he has under your hand. This thought came to me the other day when I was worrying over finances. The feasibility of that plan you know best. I shall leave all of it to you to decide. What worries me the most and what I know the least and what I like to know the best and most—is the financial condition of my father. If he is going through a financial sacrifice, I shall insist on going home. There are several things which makes me think that, however, I have no ground of thinking so. I see no reason why should he spend his last cent for my education, when I am able and ready to make my own living. You know that Father is getting old. He can not stand my saying and insisting of going home. He has set his heart of seeing me go home a Doctor Sun rather than just Mr. Sun. He has built around that more or less a myth which will be hard to tear down, and to disappoint him will be out of the question as far as I am concern. If he wants me to stay in this country and study, I will be glad to do his command, but if he is undergoing financial difficulties to realize his myth, his attitude is a wrong one. Don’t you think so? The fourth thing is rather personal and private, and I hope that you will keep it in confidence. I am sick of vagabonding around with no special place to go. I can not call any place my home. I am sick of the idea of having to take my meals at some resturant [sic] or boarding house, and I am also sick of living at some rooming place or dormitory. It may due to my reaching maturity or nearing to it--with a realization of a home. Ten years of it and going on eleven is enough for me, and I think it is enough for most people. Eventually I have to go home, and when I do go home, the prospects will be even darker for me. I just can not get along with them. I have tried with the Chinese here in Yale, and I found that my efforts with them are total losses. I do not know what they think of me, but I do not think much of them. I am not ashamed to say it, but facts are facts. I even do not want to walk with one. What is wrong with me, and please tell me what to do. It seems funny why I should trouble with all this talk. Charlie was in this country also, and I don’t think he bothered you with any of this. I don’t know why, but I want to get this out of my system. May be I am frank about everything, but that is not to the point. There is something with me that is radically wrong. I know what it is or rather they are, but I am skeptical of telling anyone about it. All the above things, I ask your advice and opinion. I hope most sincerely that you will answer me each one of the questions singularly. I am most anxious to know. I find the work here very hard. But as soon as I get used to the system which they use here in the graduate school, I think it will come easier to me than it is now. I am getting used to the environment also. In a couple of more months, I think I will be totally used to the town, however, I will never like New Haven as well as I liked Middlebury, and I am always homesick for Middlebury. But I am getting along better. Most sincerely yours Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Sun 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 27, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/960a36b1161405b14c383688271ee765.jpg 48dd6fc3976369c0b1a12bf544c4b232 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/88dc1babcf873a349969f93abb91ead1.jpg 82a2d10ab89dcd0dd91541371bf418a7 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 Charles Sun, c/o Frank Lin, MIT Dorm, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 24, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Charles Sun, c/o Frank Lin, MIT Dorm, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 24, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Stearns: These last three or four days nave formed the most eventful weekend in Boston so far this summer. On Friday I listened at the Sharkey-Dempsey fight over the radio, and was greatly interested to hear that the latter won. This victory means that the championship bout to be held sometimes in the coming fall will be one of the best attended boxing match in the history or the boxing world. On Saturday I had the opportunity of seeing that much-talked-about and attractive American aviator, Charles Lindbergh. I was only one of the many thousands of Bostonians, who came out to greet their national idol of the air. The city for two or three hours was in a feverish uproar when a great part or her citizens were expecting the arrival of this man, but in the wink of the eye all is quiet again. How quick "Lindy” passed by! It is a long time since Amherst College closed for the summer, and I think that by this time the recorder must have mailed out the grades for our final examinations. So if you have already received my report and have no more need or it, please kindly send it to me, for I am very desirous to know I have made out last year. Thank you, Sir, in advance. On the nineth [sic] of this month Arthur and Quincy left Boston for Seattle, thence they sailed for China on the nineteenth. By now they are pretty near Japan, and in less than a week they will sight, the land which was absent from their eyes for seven long years. They must feel very strange to get back. Since Arthur a departure Tom and I are still staying in the M. I. T. dormitories, and Frank, of course, is with us. There is nothing much for us to do except exercise and play. I am not doing any studying save reading myself plays of Shakespeare. In rainy weather we would play card games or go to the moving picture show; in good days we would play tennis, or soccer, or football to suit our taste. I call this a very easy way of passing a summer, too, too easy. Next year I shall take care to find something worthwhile to do during the summer. Some time ago this month I met one of the Andover boys. He said that he was been up in your camp for a short stay with the Hoppers. The fishing is not good, according to him, but just the same it tickled me to death to near things about the old camp. It is really one of my dreams to go up to the Diamond Stream for a week of fishing sometimes before I go back to China. I would do it not for the fishing alone out for the sake of tasting for the last time real American wild life. Do you think my dream will come true? Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charles Sun 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 24, 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 Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Frank Lin https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b6bb7bfd1b265ca7a28e3cbf27966676.jpg 7688155d84e7b7b8705a2176958e7428 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 Charles Sun, c/o Frank Lin, MIT Dorm, July 26, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, c/o Frank Lin, MIT Dorm, July 26, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, c/o Frank Lin, MIT Dorm, July 26, 1927 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 26, 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 Dear Charlie: Your letter reached me only a few hours after my return from Connecticut Lake where I have been for the past two weeks with my own boy. The old place has not changed much, though on account of logging operations the fishing on the Diamond has been very poor for the past two years. I share your hope that you will have an opportunity to see the old place again, enjoy a good tramp in the woods, and get a few old-fashioned fly bites before you go back to China. Your records from Amherst reached me some time ago, and I at once forwarded them to you and, if I remember correctly, using Arthur's mail box address in Boston. If you have not received the record by this time, I would suggest that you inquire at the Boston Post office for I think I sent several documents to you and Tom at that address. I am sorry that you are not finding more to do this summer that seems really worth while, though I know that a good rest won't hurt you. Tom assured me that he was to take regular courses at Boston University. If he is not doing this, he certainly should let me know. With best wishes to you both, believe me Always sincerely yours Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Frank Lin https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ae0276fed4ce857b3ec39c997be7f32e.jpg e76e181f62042eba9f4a37a98b82029f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/19b78cd56bd5412996fc5edd44409a7e.jpg 52a33f9b88b6e2f8e19ff808c1301666 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/96ed41db4c932d91f1ff4ff326d99638.jpg 102567d30c2d8f3b7777fb766703e0b8 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 Mary Sun, Cornell University, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 25, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Cornell University, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 25, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Sun 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 25, 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