81 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/50ab34ca8df7940c037793e51c02bfd1.jpg 74ae848edc9cf4af873ca3cf49359b61 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, January 27, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, January 27, 1922 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. Sun Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns, I beg to advise that on Jan. 16th. I have requested the Tientsin Branch of Russo-Asiatic Bank to send you by telegraphic transfer a sum of Five thousand (5,000) dollars through their agents, the Irving National Bank of New York. Tientsin bank’s advice read: "Advise and pay Stearns Philips Acedemay [sic] account of Sun Gold $5,000" I trust you have been duly advised. For this remittance, please credit $1,000 each Arthur, Mary, Charles, Thomas and Quency Sheh. In order to enable me to make necessary financial arrangements to meet these children’s requirements, I wonder if it would give you too much trouble to send me a rough estimate of their annual expenses. I shall be deeply grateful if you could help me in this regard. Arthur is now in Boston. I understand inducements in such a big city for him to spend money are numerous. I hope his expenses are still under your control even though he is a few miles from you. I also trust that while in Boston, he is boarding in a reputable and good family where he could have an opportunity to study the life of American homes. Both my daughter and son-in-low [sic], Mr. & Mrs. Chen arrived here this afternoon on their way to Peking. At the station, they told me how kind you have been to them when they called upon you. I wish to thank you heartily for your kindness shown them. Very truly yours, Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 27, 1922 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/bab156418b0e9446633a20a514f16048.jpg 65945badf2f5b20ed45a9a4e7e9654be 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 Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, January 18, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, January 18, 1922 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: The busy days that have followed the Christmas season have delayed me in sending this long overdue word of deep appreciation of and very sincere gratitude for your most generous and valuable Christmas gift. Everything that comes from China has a special value in my eyes. When it carries with it the evidence of friendly goodwill on the part of the sender, its value proportionately increases; and just because you have always been so kind and considerate in your attitude towards me, I shall value more than I can ever express that beautiful piece of ivory which now adorns my parlor table and calls forth enthusiastic comments from all who view it. I only hope that you will not feel that there is, or can be, the slightest compulsion to express in material ways of this kind such appreciation as you may feel for what little I have tried to do for your children. It has been a pleasure, I can assure you, and the business arrangement, which had of necessity to be made, has been based on the actual income and outgo involved, so far as this can be estimated. I only hope that I have been able to help you carry out your wishes for your children and to realize the high hopes and ambitions you entertain for them. I expect to send you with a few days statements cover the expenses of all four of your children and their friends, Messrs. Sheh and Lin. I have practically completed this up to the first of December, last. The task has been something of a time consumer, and I have not felt like putting it upon my overworked office force, so that it had to be done at such odd moments as I could find for it from time to time. I have also all of the receipts involved in these various transactions. These I shall be glad to send to you if you desire, or if you prefer, I can turn them over to Arthur or the other boys. I shall write you in a few days, giving the latest reports of the children. At present all are in the best of health and seemingly happy in their work; though Arthur writes me that he finds the work at the Institute of Technology increasingly hard, and Thomas is seemingly a bit unprepared for successful progress in the latest class of this school. I expect to give Tom a little outside tutoring through the balance of the year, which will, I hope, enable him to get a better start. With warmest personal regards and renewed thanks for your generous contributions to the various members of my family, and with heartiest New Year's greetings, believe me, Sincerely and gratefully 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 January 18, 1922 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/aea6ddeeec31b79f468d23a6ee1c4340.jpg aae75fe6d3665c700ddf33aedf3a94bb https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/68a0be074d26a44a7013a0892a2585a9.jpg dbd7ad9b6286b22b42462648b4642177 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, January 15, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, January 15, 1922 Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Stearns, First of all, I wish to offer you my apologies for having delayed to reply to your letter dated September 16, 1921 for such a long time, propbably [sic] you will excuse me if you know that ever since your kind letter was received, I spent all my time in Shanghai until day before yesterday. In Shanghai, I was fully engaged in the campaign to send relief to the millions of suffering people from floods in Kiangsu, Anhwei and Chekiang, three densely populated provinces in mid-China. In Kiangsu, not all the flood water has subsided. It is still six or seven feet deep in many places. From your letter, I noticed that my remittance of $3,000 has been received and placed to the credit of Mary and the boys. I was also exceedingly glad to learn that Arthur was entering the Boston Tech., Thomas and Charles were about to enter Phillips, and Mary was going to Northfield Seminary with your daughter to whom, I am proud to learn, she is a very good friend. It has been very thoughtful of you to lighten the school work for the younger boys by allowing them to take five instead of four years to complete course so as to enable them to acquire a good, firm foundation in English. Regarding Latin and German, I happened to offer a suggestion because I was anxious that they should prepare themselves to be highly educated men. I thank you for your thought on this subject and will leave it to your wise discretion. As you knew, Arthur was baptised in China. I always wished him to be under the Influences of the Church. Now he is in Boston. I will ask you to see that he is properly guilded [sic] in that direction while he is attending college. I have just seen a letter written by Thomas to my grand nephew, Wang. In that, I could get an impression that he, too, is much inclined toward Christianity. I am very much pleased with some of the remarks he made in that letter. Now I am hoping that soon I will hear from the children that they actually join the Church. Not little have I heard about the summer camps from the children. They all wrote that they were pleased with the camping life and the lesson it taught them. Especially, Mary told me that she was very pround [sic] because she was able to help in household work. I have already written to my children about doing house-work. I suggested to them that they should offer assistance in any way possible. I think it is to their advantage that they do so. They should consider it a privilege to be permitted to participate in the American home life. I must confess that I was a bit concerned when I heard from our friend, Mr. Liang that Mary felt homesick and wanted to return to China with her sister, Mrs. Chen. I understand from the latter that she and her husband called upon you and looked up Mary in Northfield. I wired Mr. Liang to persuade Mary to stay. In the next mail I hope to receive a letter from Mr. Liang and to learn the real causes of Mary’s desire to come home. I hope Mary was comforted by the visit of her sister and that she has overcome her home-sickness now. Yes, I love to see my daughter home. But I also love to see her being educated. I shall be totally disappointed, if she returns at this time. I sent her to America because I wanted her to receive modern education. My country sorely needs highly educated women and I want to see Mary become one. Please pray for her. Permit me to say, my dear Dr. Stearns, that I am really deeply indebted to you and Miss Clemons for the added work I impose upon you in putting my children under your care. During the year that has past, they all have received untold benefits both in their studies and in life itself. If not for my prolonged trip to Shanghai, I would have already sent you a new remittance. But my work in connection with the flood relief has upset all my personal program. So I am forwarding you the remittance within this week. I hope that the delay on my part has not inconvenienced you to any great extent. Going with the same mail, I am sending you with my very sincere regards, a copy of my portrait. I hope in this way we will know each other even more intimately than ever and that you will someday favor me with a copy of your portrait. Faithfully yours, CYS/D 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 January 15, 1922 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/b2fc7408e2c9b881d61cb23eb050752b.jpg d983880b599f884d1681d2df93624a23 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 Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass., December 17, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass., December 17, 1921 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: I have been delayed in answering your letter of November 10, owing to my absence from town. Thank you for the letter and for returning the bills with the explanation of the charges. I haven't looked up Dr. Abbott's account but will do so at once. Certainly if you visited him only twice, the charge should be very slight. I have just returned from New York where I started Charlie on this new job which will carry him as far as India in any case and perhaps still farther. Tsai is out once more and rapidly getting his full strength and vigor back again. Charlie and Tom are progressing, the former more rapidly than the latter; indeed I am wondering whether Tom is not perhaps a bit out of his depth and whether he should not have another year of preparation before attempting the Academy work. I should like to talk this over with you sometime, for I am not quite sure whether the boys should be separated or not. I don't want to hold Charlie back nor, on the other hand, do I want to do anything that would tend to discourage Tom. I noticed in the paper that Mr. Liang was in Washington, and soon after received a letter direct from him. I hope he will find an opportunity to run up here before he leaves. Please tell me where to address your sister, for we would love to have her visit us in Andover while she is here. Mr. Liang should be addressed, I suppose, in care of the Chinese Legation in Washington. A few days ago I sent you a bundle of newspapers and later received word that this same bundle had been held up at the Cambridge Post Office for lack of sufficient address. I sent on the street number at once, which perhaps had been left off of the original address by accident. If you have not received the papers by this time, I think it would pay you to inquire for them at the Post Office. With sincerest good wishes and kindest regards from all, believe me always 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 17, 1921 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 Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8c2f041b8137b5cda495e0412cbef155.jpg 8915e66457022844a038da67ec811fd6 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8d61068d82d6d42fc6c44065a5587da5.jpg 948bc6c0a7a32d7a743846700545e68f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8802d780570d872faf999f011db5f6eb.jpg d0d2d029d484f2f84fdef75550c5b0ad 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 Mary Sun, Northfield Seminary, to Alfred E. Stearns, December 1, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Northfield Seminary, to Alfred E. Stearns, December 1, 1921 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 December 1, 1921 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/72ae083b2278fea1964db7e05a731290.jpg eb1bb66e9baa4d852698d0451ccc8678 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9b039e96146570064302abd9d9c54e0e.jpg e3dd82e7079c5fb5d6a2a8853bb217e8 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 Mary Sun, Northfield Seminary, to Alfred E. Stearns, October 26, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Northfield Seminary, to Alfred E. Stearns, October 26, 1921 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 October 26, 1921 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/5608a0b5f2719316cf8af989af142d99.jpg 1f4930cbd482816f8770c7b3ffb4e82d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1cc0323e96ad24fb5532c7c519c38c8a.jpg 97246d5dbbddb3fca30406bd081e63ab 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 Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, September 14, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, September 14, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Your welcome letters of July 11 and August 10 were duly received and should have been answered before this. The past few weeks, however, have been unusually busy ones, and at this moment the rush attending the opening of a new school year is at its height. I shall write you more fully later but send this word to thank you most warmly for the kind sentiments you have so generously expressed and to tell you briefly the plans that have been made for the children for this new school year. Let me first, however, acknowledge the receipt of your check for $3000 which, as requested, I have credited as follows: $1000 to Arthur $1000 to Quincy Sheh $400 to Mary $300 to Charles $300 to Thomas During the summer Arthur has been at the Camp Aloha Summer School where he has seemingly done excellent work in his studies and where he has made many and good friends. Quincy Sheh was at the same camp, and I have had from those in charge very warm words of commendation of both the work and spirit of these two boys. Arthur will enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston the last of this month. As he will be only about twenty miles from us I hope we shall see a good bit of him during the year. Quincy returns to Andover to complete its college preparation and will room in my house, though boarding in one of the regular school houses. Thomas and Charles are entering the Academy this week. They are a bit nervous, I can easily see, over the new responsibilities, but I feel sure that they will soon gain the confidence they need and will find it possible to meet the new school requirements in a satisfactory way. Owing to their ages which slightly below most of the boys who enter the school, I have not deemed it wise to give them full schedules this year. It is the usual practice here to allow town boys who live at home to enter the school somewhat younger than do the boys who come from a distance. To lighten up their work for the first two years and to permit them to take five instead of four years to complete their course this is the plan I have outlined for these boys and on this basis their schedules will include this year; regular Algebra; French; and a double course in English. In order that they may handle the other work to the best advantage it is very essential that the English foundation be made as strong as possible. If I find that the situation requires it, I shall arrange to give them some special work outside or the regular classrooms. I hope that this will not prove necessary. During the summer Tom and Charles have been at a summer camp up at my own summer place where they won the hearts of all and were among the most popular boys in the camp. I had them do a little work in English up there under a tutor in order to strengthen their knowledge of that subject. It seems best for me to keep these boys for another year in my own house where Miss Clemons, who has mothered them so satisfactorily this past year, will still be able to help and advise them. I had planned to have them board at the School Dining Hall and supposed that they would welcome this change. Just now they seem to prefer to remain with me, and I find that this is a deep-rooted preference, I shall hope to be able to allow them to stay. Mary was at my own summer home throughout the summer months. Unfortunately she does not like the woods and mountains and I am sure had a pretty unhappy time of it, especially as we were without maids during the last month and had to do a good bit of our own work. She did not, however, allow her feelings to mar the fine spirit and instincts that have always been hers and which stamp her as a rare and unusual girl. For this school year she has gone with my own daughter to Northfield Seminary. This is the school established by the late Dwight Moody, the well known Evangelist, and is now in charge of his son who has been a close and intimate friend of mine since boyhood. The Christian influences at this school are pronounced, though the restraints, in some ways, are more exacting than I would naturally prefer. I confess, however, that in America today practically all of the well known boarding schools for girls are so honeycombed with fads and fancies and modern superficialities that I dread the thought of subjecting a high-minded cultured girl to their influence. Northfield is as free form these things as any modern school could well be, and the courses of study there are of the very best. Most of the girls, it is true, come from families of limited means, but I do not feel that this fact can prove anything but helpful to both of the girls concerned. My home, of course, will still be Mary's, and I cannot tell you how much we miss her wonderfully sunshiny spirit from the household. I can see from your letter a trace of anxiety as to Mary's development, your feelings evidently being based upon the report I made to Mr. Liang of her excitement at the time of the Andover victory over her rival school. Please do not think that she has lost any of that inherent modesty and refinement that are so pronounced in her, and which it is my aim to preserve in every possible way. The Chapel is just across the street from my own home, and when she, Marjory, and Miss Clemons, in the enthusiasm of the moment, decided to pull the bell rope there, following an old custom, they were in as much seclusion as if they had been in their own back yard. I think I forgot to refer to the Latin situation in connection with Thomas and Charles. My feeling is that it will be better to limit the language work this year to French and English and to hold the Latin in reserve for next year, in case it seems wise to give them that subject. The larger majority of our Chinese students have not taken Latin, but I realize none the less its value and would be disposed to encourage the boys to include it in their schedule if they can do so without too great a strain. Of course a foreigner who works at a language is really working at two languages at one and the same time, since the medium through which he works, in this case English, is also a foreign language to him. The matter of the German also can be decided later. The main thing now is to give the boys a good and fair start. Let me state to you again in closing what a rare privilege I consider it to be allowed to have these most friendly and responsive children in my home circle. 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 September 14, 1921 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/74daa8f542ece73285f3ee02af407dfe.jpg fd8c4542d889590c4766318b6d6c14cb https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/875e68fed54595be4c2057869da3bbef.jpg 583b629e0265312706c4f195c030f671 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, August 10, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 10, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns; Mr. Liang has been good enough as to show me your letter to him dated the 24th June. It goes without saying that I was much interested in its contents. I am glad that the children, under your eminent guidance, have met with successes in their career. Mary wrote to me about the ball game, Andover vs. Exeter. I am much astonished at her excitement she betrayed upon Andover's victory and how she went to ring the school bell. She was rather a reserved girl a year ago. It is such a change in her temperament. During the year past she must have learned the true meaning of sympathy and how to respond freely and fully to the right stimuli I feel that she is now free from that restraint common to our old custom and observed by our young girls. After reading carefully once more the letters you wrote me and the letter I sent to you on July 11th, I have just one more word to add. From your letter I gathered the impression that all the four children are likely to be separated by the coming term. I hope you understand that their leaving your house is the least thing I desired. Though under changed circumstance and with your approval, I must agree to their seeking new homes elsewhere. It is most gratifying to learn from Mary that she will go to the same school with your daughter. As to Charles, Thomas, I hope you will still keep them in your house as they are to enter Philips [sic] Academy only. I wrote to you in my last letter about these youngsters to learn Latin. Whether they should take it up or not I leave the matter wholly to your expert judgement, though I think that these children may be benefitted by acquiring a scholarly preparation now besides whatever profession they may take up afterwards. From my observation they have the languist [sic] talent. Do you think it would be advisable for them to take up German besides French and English. Regarding to Arthur I have not heard definitly [sic] about his having passed his examination, as I have only received 3 diplomas. From the tones of the letters I received I presume he will be qualified to enter college. I am glad to hear that Arthur has joined camp Aloha of New Hampshire with Quincy and that the three younger ones are enjoying camping with you. Inclosed please find herewith a draft on Irving Rational Bank of N.Y. No I2/226 dated Aug. 3rd ’21, to your order amounting to $3,000. Please credit same as follows; $1,000. to Arthur, $1,000 to Quincy Shih (by his father’s/request) /$400, to Mary and $300. each to Charles and Thomas, and much oblige. In conclusion permit me to thank you most sincerely for all the trouble you have taken on my childrens' behalf. Your very sincerely, 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 August 10, 1921 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/472d3f93922b83a9e158281da0992f97.jpg 43be3f4e6bd7a454ef2d5af9d19221f2 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bde30b436b5ac0bc7783bfe7b6f08e8d.jpg 5885dfbce2bc5094dfa1fcbbca7d9d42 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, July 11, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 11, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns, First of all I wish to acknowledge receipt of your three letters dated March 7th., April 16th. and May 24th respectively. I am not unaware of my guilty in not having fully answering them much sooner than this and having allowed your letters to accumulate. But since August last, I have been exceedingly busy in the famine relief work. It is strange to say that it had taken almost all my time and energy and today I feel the effect of such an effort. During the last month, I was compelled to go to the mountains for a complete rest. Answering your letter of March 7th., allow me to say that while having never been in your country and come into intimate contact with the economic situation in America, I fully appreciate the effect of high cost of living upon every phase of American life. I can readily understand your servant problem. And I sincerely consider what you charge for my children’s room and board is only fair and just. As I have repeatedly assured you, what in your judgment to be right is satisfactory to me. I am much indebted to you for the care you exercise over my children in every other way than the financial matters, which are so well taken care off. Let me thank you also for the statements so carefully prepared showing a balance on March 1st. to be: Arthur $185.59; Charles $491.14; Thomas $483.82; Mary $587.41. I am glad to hear that the children are not unruly and are happy. I have no doubt that they have improved greatly since they were placed under your oversight. In this connection, I am not ungrateful to the kindness of Miss Clemons who takes such a care of them. My especial thanks are due her for her care to Mary when she was sick with a cold. I also very deeply appreciate your kindness to Chareles [sic] when he was operated upon. In short, I consider it a great fortune to the children to have the help they receive from you. Regarding the plan for the summer, I will again leave the matter entirety to your judgment and, moreover, my letter will reach you after such plans are made I know you will give them the best that is obtainable. I am glad Mr. Robinson has paid you a visit recently. He has been a good friend of ours when he was in Tientsin and it is really good of him to have come to see the children, and talked over their well-being with you. I am afraid, some of the children, knowing my situation, may have given you the impression that their expenses are a little higher than their parents would them to bear and even made to suggestion of going to some summer camp where fees are relatively lower. I must say such suggestions are altogether unwarranted. I am glad you did not approve of their going to the camps they suggested. From the letters I receive from the children, Charles and Thomas are members of the Boyscotts [sic]. I am glad they are. If there is a girlscott [sic] in Andover, I wish Mary will also join. From the last paragraph of your letter dated May 24th., the party in your house is about to be broken up next fall. Arthur going to Boston, Charles and Thomas entering Phillips and Mary going somewhere else. If you think time has come when these youngsters are qualified to be away from your personal guildance [sic], let them go where they will receive the fullest benefit. I know you will not fall in placing them always under the best Christian influence for I wish to see them develop to be true Christians. As to Arthur's language difficulties, I am much concerned, I think he should be fully equipped with facilities to express himself fully when he returns. I consider an education is not complete without a thoroughly efficient command of the English language, however well he may be informed in technical subjects. I know you will see that his English is improved even he has to spend a little more time just for this particular subject. I am perhaps too ambitious to entertain the hope that these children will come back to China with the best education and will be ranked among the returned students as among the best. I envy our friend Mr. M.T. Liang whose elderest [sic] boy, Paul, recently returned from England with the highest degree and is now rapidly gaining reputation in Tientsin as a surgeon. In this connection, I doubt if it meets with your approval to have some of the younger children to take up Latin next fall. I think foreign language can be best learnt while they are yet young. If you think none of them is yet ready to study Latin this coming fall, any foreign language perhaps will be just as suitable to them. At any rate, I leave this, as all other matters, to your best judgment. Once more, let me thank you, dear Dr. Stearns for all the care I imposed upon you. I also wish to thank Miss Stearns for her kindness to Mary. With my best wishes and regards. Yours gratefully, P.S. I enclose a letter addressed to my children. Please be good enough as pass it onto them. 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 July 11, 1921 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/637b89ba3da02f766829d3894e5defcd.jpg d08ca51899fb227205cd36f651c9675e https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/52812c924400956dacfc6b22476c23e5.jpg 3b4ef1f8608769cb6860436a653404b9 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 M.T. Liang, Tientsin, June 24, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, June 24, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Liang: Your fine and generous letter of May 21st has just reached me. As we are just closing the school year and making our plans for the summer I am in the midst of an unusual rush and will only attempt to acknowledge the receipt of your missive and send you a brief word of appreciation and good will. I find it quite a problem to make satisfactory arrangements for the summer for all the Chinese boys entrusted to my care. It seems best to let them all go to summer camp, but not too many in one place. The two younger Sun boys will go to my own camp at Connecticut Lake, and probably one other of their countrymen will be in the party. Arthur Sun, Quincey Sheh and Frank Lin will be placed in other and good camps which are in the control of men who are my personal friends, and who would take special interest in the boys in consequence. Only yesterday I slipped down to the Town Hall in the afternoon to attend the public exercises in connection with the graduation of upper grade of the Grammar School. Charles, Thomas and Mary were members of the class and they were anxious to have me present, as I was indeed to be there. Each pupil was called in turn to the stage to receive his or her diploma, and friends and partisans expressed their approval by the usual hand clapping. What interested me chiefly was to find that those three children from the Far East received greater applause than did any of the American classmates, a clear indication that they had won their way into the hearts and affections of their friends and play mates over here. I am not surprised, for it would be hard to find three nicer youngsters than these, and when I attempt to express an opinion of Mary I really can't find words to do her justice. I doubt whether I have ever met a child with a sunnier, sweeter and evener disposition than that girl possesses. Before the summer is over I hope to send you some further word of our whereabouts and doings. How I wish you might be with me to enjoy the mountain air and glorious scenery of my summer home up in northern New Hampshire. Accept please my heartiest good wishes for the days ahead, and kindly remember me to any old and inquiring friends of mine whom you may happen to run across from time to time in your part of the world. I always remember with deep appreciation and pleasure the friendly good will of Mr. Chow, good will which must have been tested pretty severely when I attempted so unsuccessfully to do something worth while — for his somewhat rebellious son. 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 24, 1921 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 M.T. Liang