78 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f1235e936cc6b6f816a18d18757c288f.jpg 6df6870741ad4c77461beaf099c32b31 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 1920-1924, 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, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., to Alfred E. Stearns, December 29, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Charles Sun, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., to Alfred E. Stearns, December 29, 1923 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 December 29, 1923 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/85dcf5979d711bf3156772374a1dfddf.jpg fa4fa22fd50a72937bf399f7a79b6f7b 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 1920-1924, 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 Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. December 19, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. December 19, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Sze: Thank you for your prompt and more than satisfactory reply to my letter of recent date. I am making plans for the Suns to leave for Washington the day after Christmas and I hope that the oldest brother, now in Cambridge, and Quincey Sheh, who is due back from Bowdoin shortly, will join the party. Of course I can't speak for them finally until I have learned their decision. With holiday greetings, 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 December 19, 1923 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 Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1dacd96fcfed3c099074cd86a7aaf984.jpg c782a4e98f796f8b3a89405451c2e7c8 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 1920-1924, 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 Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., to Alfred E. Stearns, December 14, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., to Alfred E. Stearns, December 14, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns, I have just received your letter of December 12th. I am sorry to say it was due entirely to my bad memory when I wrote to Mary Sun that I said two of her brothers. At the moment I thought there was only one brother at Andover besides Arthur in Boston. I shall be glad to have all three brothers come and also have Quincey Sheh if he does not mind a little crowding. One girl at Elmira College and two boys at Cook Academy for whom I act as guardian are coming to spend their Christmas with us. I have also invited Mr. M.T. Liang’s daughter and son to come and they have accepted my invitation. As to Mary Sun and her three brothers and Quincey Sheh, please tell them that they may come when they like and stay as long as they like. I want them to feel perfectly free to accept or decline. Mr. Sun was a very intimate friend of my wife’s father and besides, I know him myself personally very well. Our wish is to do everything we can for his children, so during any of the holidays if they wish to come to us just let us know. Should I find that my house is full with other guests I will let them know. I hope I have made the situation quite clear to you. They can come any day after Christmas or they can come for Easter. We shall be glad to have them anytime and always. With warm personal regards and with compliments of the Season, Sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sao-Ke Alfred Sze 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 14, 1923 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 Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/db07052a3aad0dbb9e870c604af7622b.jpg 932ec5a4b1dd0d8d12f8c8ed2f8d2229 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0162f0fb6c25a4ac4cef1dc4024ddd64.jpg 5ba19031667711437b3ef82f9fc7ae81 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 1920-1924, 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 Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. , December 12, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. , December 12, 1923 Relation A related resource December 12, 1923 Dr. Alfred Sze Chinese Legation Washington, D. C. Dear Dr. Sze: Mary Sun has shown me your letter with its very kind and attractive invitation to her and her two brothers to pass the holidays with you in Washington. I am heartily in sympathy with the plan, but am writing merely to inquire about one or two details which involve possible complications here. I hope you will be perfectly frank with me in your answers. It has been my custom for a number of years to have all of the Chinese students in this vicinity including the several of my own household, at our home for Christmas Day. Other boys who happen to be left over in town are regularly invited in for the Christmas tree and attendant celebration. In making my plans this year I merely wish to know what to count on. You refer in your letter to Mary and her two brothers, and I assume that you mean the two younger boys, Charlie and Thomas, who are still here in school and living in my house. The oldest brother, Arthur, who is a student at Boston Tech, is planning to pass the holidays with us and I am wondering; whether this is understood, for I think the other children are a bit embarrassed at the idea of accepting the invitation and leaving their oldest brother behind. Quincy Sheh, now at Bowdoin College, has also written that he will be our guest for the holidays, and as he came, and has been ever since in intimate contact, with the Suns, I am sure that he, too, might wish to change his plans if he knew of their contemplated absence. I am wondering whether visit perhaps just after Christmas Day would answer the purpose just as well. I do not wish to press this point at all, for I am anxious to do only what will prove just and most enjoyable for the children themselves, and I am sure that the Washington visit, whatever the dates involved, will be a most profitable one to them and one which they should certainly make. If it can be made, however, without depriving them of the chance to enjoy a part of the vacation here with their friends, I am inclined to think that it will be a little more acceptable all around, though as I intimated above, I would not for the world offer a suggestion, oven, that does not fit in fully with your plans and me wholly with your wishes. Trusting that you will be as frank in your reply as I have been in my inquiries, believe me with personal regards. 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 December 12, 1923 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/e5d7b6bbcfc4d7c7b84c72922e935518.jpg d3d44d69a7c39e5c8bd03031f5d952ef 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 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, December 7, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, December 7, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: I have just been advised by the local bank of the receipt from you of the sum of $5,000, which I am crediting, according to the usual custom, to Arthur, Charles, Thomas, Mary, and Quincey Sheh,-$1,000. to each account. I sent you only several days ago statements covering the expenditures to the middle of November, and I trust that these will reach you safely. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 7, 1923 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/419927566d38e0b4bc72caa2abc748f7.jpg c3918b9b9c769f68ece855c3cef4ecec 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 1920-1924, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, December 4, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, December 4, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns: I thank you for your letter of the 12th.Septr. and for your most excellent care of the children during the holiday time. Charlie, Tom and Mary under your direct care, and Arthur at the Tec. camp all seem to have had a fine summer holiday; and they are lucky ones for their father was grinding away through the heat here without a holiday at all. Arthur mentioned in a recent letter that he had been to Phillips for examination for a diploma, but he seems to have failed whereat I am sorry. With regard to the Tsing-Hua scholarship for Arthur, I hope the scholarship money has been sent to you as previously arranged for. I am very glad that Mary is making better and steadier progress. If I remember rightly she was weak in her English, but now that she is shaping better it might be possible for her to hold her own in her English work, and in her other work at Northfield. I think she would be very happy to go there if that could be arranged and met with your approval. Charlie mentions that he had dropped Latin- where he has dropped it he does not say, but he does mention that he finds the work beyond him. However I had not heard him complain before of this subject,; and I think he has been doing this study for some time. Tom seems to have taken to music and is very proud of his election to sing in the church choir. If he really has any gift for this, do you think he ought to take music lessons? You will be able by this time to know if he would profit from such lessons. I am very pleased that he has taken to the church choir and is interested in the whole service and work of the church. I trust the children continue to keep in good health and spirits. I am much indebted to you for your most excellent care of them and for all the trouble you have taken. With best wishes for a very happy New Year, I remain, Yours sincerely, C.Y.Sun Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 December 4, 1923 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. 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Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, November 30, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, November 30, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: I am enclosing herewith the annual statements of the children's accounts This is not intended as a Christmas present, but it just happens that the middle of the fall term seems to offer me about the best chance in the year to find the opportunity to transmit the accounts to the proper form for forwarding to you. Perhaps they should be sent oftener. If that is your wish, I shall be glad to try to arrange it. Another matter - I am holding all receipts covering not only the current year, but receipts for the past as well, thinking that you might wish to have these but hesitating to send them by mail both because of their bulk and the possibility that they might be lost in transit. It was my thought that very possibly I should be able to hand them to some one of your countrymen who was returning to China and ask him to deliver them on arrival to you. If you have any definite instructions in the matter, please do not hesitate to let me have them. We had a delightful little Thanksgiving party at the house yesterday in which all of your children shared and which was made doubly pleasing to them and to us the presence of Miss Rose Hsiung who is Mary's guest for the Thanksgiving recess period. In addition, the boys in the house, the other Chinese boys in the school, including the two Yuan boys joined us, while Arthur and Frank Lin came out from Cambridge for the day. From all I can find out, Arthur is working as hard as ever at his students in Tech, but he finds the work pretty difficult at times, and especially in individual subjects. I am sure, though, that he is doing as well as we can ask of him and that he will continue to put forth his best efforts to get the most out of the opportunities offered. Frank also appears to be working hard, though, he, too, finds some of his subjects rather difficult. The members of the family still in my household have had, on the whole, a good year's record. Charlie's scholarship standing has not been quite so good this term as it was last year, but this seems to be due entirely to the fact that some of the new subjects had baffled him a bit at the start, for, so far as I can judge, there has been no relaxing of effort or interest on his part. Tom has definitely improved in his studies over last year, though some of the work is repeated work, as you doubtless know, which makes the schedule a little easier for him to handle. I have reason to feel, though, that from now on the boy will gain steadily and increase his momentum. This year Tom is entering heartily into wholesome school activities. He is singing in the school choir, which will no doubt interest you, as it is not easy for a native Chinese to adapt himself to Anglo-Saxon music. Tom's achievement in this respect is all the more creditable, therefore, and I have ben immensely impressed with the ease and naturalness with which he is getting to handle our vocal music. He is also developing into a pretty good little football player, and he had the distinction of playing against Exeter this fall, not as a member of the regular school eleven, but on another team picked from the various club teams of the school and which is permitted annually to have a friendly bout with a team picked from the class. teams of our good rivals at Exeter. I did not see the game, but those who did assure me that Tom's performance was distinctly creditable. Mary has shown, I think, a bit better and friendlier spirit all round. I believe, too, that she has been disposed to make a little more intimate contacts with the other girls at school and to take slightly increased interest in her school life and its general activities. She is still below par, if I may use that expression, in this respect, for her natural inclination is to follow old habits and shrink from activities pronounced in American school life, such as athletics and social interests. She is altogether too inclined, as we say in America, to "herd by herself," though both Miss Clemons and I have done everything we could to urge and encourage her to overcome this weakness. Chiefly on this account I am convinced that by another year Mary should take her place as a boarder, rather than a day scholar, in some good girls' school, where she would be more or less forced by circumstances to mingle freely with the other girls and enter whole heartedly into school activities. These opportunities are here now, but to use them to the full requires individual initiative which Mary has not shown in this respect so far, while there is always the change to dodge most of them if desired. As a boarder Mary would find the conditions somewhat different. The great problem is to find in these days a school that provides the activities mentioned above and so very desirable in themselves, but holding at the same time to the high and fine ideals that have in the past governed the life and work of most of our best American schools. Apparently most of our boarding schools today, especially those for girls, have yielded to the pressure of these superficial, social, and materialistic conditions so prevalent in our American life today. Mary has probably written you that it seemed best to give up the work with the violin. Her teacher assured me that both from the construction of Mary's hand, which doesn’t permit of long reach on the part of her fingers, and because of the age at which she began, she was not likely to make any worth while progress in this work. I have consequently allowed her to substitute for it this year special course in art, for which she evidently has distinct talent and which she thoroughly enjoys. I hope that you will approve of the change. With renewed assurances of my heartiest regard, and trusting that you will never hesitate to advise me frankly when you have any suggestions or criticisms to make that concern my relations with your children, believe me Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 30, 1923 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/ce17a36f3fad9a704d9ef0c5a55c7c03.jpg 8183b6e1fbbea7b87818354a3c518ea7 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 1920-1924, 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 Isabel Gulick, Navy Yard, Boston, November 27, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Isabel Gulick, Navy Yard, Boston, November 27, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Mrs. Gulick: I have your interesting letter of recent date. Mary Sun, of whom you inquire, is still a member of my household and a day pupil at Abbot Academy in this town. I hope very much that you will run out here some day and see her. Her school duties keep her pretty busy most of the week, but Sundays give her an opportunity to stay at home and see her friends. She is generally free, too, on Wednesday afternoons and could probably arrange for other times if such proved more convenient for you. My home is at 6 Chapel Avenue, just on the edge of the school grounds. 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 27, 1923 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/ed4a099fc2395ddf8faf0bcd1a46e539.jpg db55e5e3b8da5913829ac3c17a111f36 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 1920-1924, 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 Isabel Gulick, Navy Yard, Boston, to Alfred E. Stearns, November 26, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Isabel Gulick, Navy Yard, Boston, to Alfred E. Stearns, November 26, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Isabel Gulick 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, 1923 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 Isabel Gulick https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/22b990c492a13d06a3b1e9523c612986.jpg 5b76bb410dc31990d2d3c10980066303 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 1920-1924, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, October 2, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, October 2, 1923 Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Stearne [sic], I thank you most cordially for your letter of the 25th.June and for all the good news it brings me. I am very glad to hear you say that Mary is settling down and making an earnest effort towards progress. I am also glad that the others of the family are doing well, and I thank you for your arrangements for the summer holidays. When I read of the good times the children have had at camp I wish I were back at school again. Mary is fortunate in having such good friends and I am sure you will be able to work out a plan that will enable her to do even better work in the coming year. A boy or girl seems to be so made-up that only in after years do they appreciate their advantages during the days at school, and their experiences help them in dealings with others later on. In thinking out plans for the children I have been asking myself if it would be possible to have shorthand and possibly typewriting included at some stage in their progress, but you can best give advice on this matter. I notice from Arthur’s report, sent me from the school, that he has failed in two subjects, and I would appreciate a report or comments from you after you have found out more particulars about these two failures. I note that you have received the $5,000.00 and will be sending the accounts in the usual course. Thanking you for all your help, and with kind regards, I am, Sincerely yours, A box of silver is being sent to your care and I trust you all like the little presents. I am asking my friend in Shanghai Mr. W.E. Souter to forward this box and his name will likely appear as sender: and the American Express Co. are the forwarding agents. I also enclose a letter to Miss Clemons mentioning her little present. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 2, 1923 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