82 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1cedd1cb3d24c1f59cd3ae5700762ffa.jpg 19f52c2736d87dee81135bd4d55cdd3f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2a1a618de845313326893885fd4f232a.jpg fb4f2f6871c8b7a721ba2566a5fd5e6f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/83753c9444cb53f7d362e9759479e2c1.jpg 1e3ea14863083986fbbb55bf27dd4b15 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 M.T. Liang, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, May 21, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from M.T. Liang, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, May 21, 1921 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource M.T. Liang Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 21, 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c39355d374b0bb363626d090a99d11fe.jpg 90891422cc493bbb495b0a559f99e30e 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 Hsu Shian Lin (father of Frank Lin), Tientsin, to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, May 16, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Hsu Shian Lin (father of Frank Lin), Tientsin, to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, May 16, 1921 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hsu Shian Lin (father of Frank Lin) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 16, 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 Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Liang, My son, Frank C.F. Lin, is at present studying in Phillip's Academy, Mass, where Mr. Stearns is the Principal. As I am not acquainted with this gentle man, I shall therefore be obliged if you will kindly write to him to act as Guidance of my boy. I would have to see you personally, had I not been called away to Peking for some important mission. Thanking you in anticipation, Yours sincerely, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Frank Lin Hsu Shian Lin M.T. Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/35ec7113ccf1c2acb6e15dc2a47c1908.jpg 2e6c05bd8e266af8aacbbd2f1b9b9750 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/195c7c8bb9d0e31f3375d955f3855a4c.jpg 9aaacc29e2aabe0c6fef2d52f188f3c1 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, April 16, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, April 16, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Your very kind letter of February 7 reached me sometime ago and should have been answered earlier. I always find it difficult to write to those to whom I have more than the usual amount to say, and hence I have deferred my answer to your letter in the hope that I could find the time to treat it and the other problems as they deserve. As it is I must make the best of the limited time at my disposal and hope for better luck later. In response to your suggestion I am asking for duplicate reports of the work of the three younger children in the public schools. Unlike the reports of Phillips Academy which are sent direct to parents and guardians for preservation if desired, the reports from the public schools are sent for inspection only and must be returned to the school authorities. These reports have regularly come to me, and after inspection and signing have been returned. I am glad to say that they have been uniformly good and that the record has been confirmed in such conversations as I have had from time to time with the teachers, themselves. Just at present I am corresponding with the authorities of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in regard to Arthur's admission next fall. If the Institute will allow him credit on some of the history and language work he has had in China, his present schedule will shape up in a very satisfactory way. I am hopeful that these concessions will be granted. Let me take this opportunity also to thank you for your most generous but wholly unnecessary thought of me and the other members of the family circle in the remembrances which you advised me are being sent to us through your friend, at present, I believe, in Europe. Your generosity is altogether too great, for I can assure you so far as I am concerned it has been only a pleasure, and an increasing one at that, to have these youngsters in my own family circle. The strain, such as it is, comes entirely upon Miss Clemons who has charge of my house and who watches with care the children, themselves, and provides as best she can for their special needs. The generous and friendly cooperation which they, themselves, regularly give makes the task, while strenuous at times, far from disagreeable. Of course there are still some of our American ways which the children find it hard to accept, but it has been our endeavor to insist only upon those things which we are accustomed to regard as essential in this country for well brought up girls and boys alike. I do hope, therefore, that merely because the children are under my roof you will not feel that you are obligated in any way to me for their care and oversight beyond the definite charges which the actual expense involved seem to make necessary. Very deeply as I appreciate your generous thought of me, I should be distressed to believe that this could in any way prompt you to feel yourself under special obligations. On the whole the children have been in the best of health. Mary is just recovering from a cold which while not at all serious prompted Miss Clemons to hold her in bed for a couple of days as a precaution merely. Charles had a week's setback in the form of pink eye or conjunctivitis which did not seem to yield readily to treatment. To make sure that he was being handles in the best way, I sent him to an excellent oculist in a neighboring city where by the aid of special instruments it was discovered that the trouble had arisen from the presence of a slight piece of foreign matter in the boy's eyeball and directly over the pupil. This was removed and fortunately no ill consequences resulted. The oculist feared a possible infection because of the presence of the conjunctivitis and the consequent inflamed condition of the eye, and it was a great relief to us all when the period of danger passed without serious results. While he was in this condition, Charles remained at the school infirmary, both because of the care he could receive there and also to avoid the possibility of contagion for the rest of the family. Arthur continues to work hard, but finds some of this studies, notably the languages, very difficult. His instructor in Mechanical Drawing, on the other hand, reports that his work in that subject entitles him to rank among the very best boys in the class. I am constantly urging Arthur, as you have requested, to meet all of the school requirements promptly [illegible] no disposition to neglect his school obligations. Again assuring you of my very deep and genuine appreciation of your thoughtfulness and with personal regards, 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 April 16, 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ff7a1239818e32e15350f34238bb0cb9.jpg b9b7d2aa97892d30e3fc0cae00fe7ed5 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 Walter Humphrey, Registrar, MIT, April 13, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Walter Humphrey, Registrar, MIT, April 13, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Humphreys: We are having a little trouble in straightening out the work of Arthur Sun, one of our Chinese students now in the Senior class, with reference to admission to the Institute next fall. The case has already been called to the attention of your office, and has undoubtedly been dealt with very fairly, but Mr. Newton, our Senior Class Officer, and I are wondering whether it may yet be possible to secure a little more in the way of admission credits from the boy's previous record in China, notably at Tsing Hua College. I believe you will allow a substitution of Chinese for the regular German requirement? If so, that particular difficulty will be taken care of. Is there no way that the History requirement can be made on the basis of the work covered in China, which includes a large amount of Chinese History and Literature? Also is it possible that some subject of subjects on that list can be used for the two-year elective requirement. If an answer to those inquiries can be made in the affirmative, I believe we shall have no difficulty in rounding out the boy's preparation and sending him to you next fall. I am sending back the Tsing Hua certificate for your assistance. I might say that Arthur Sun, the boy in question, happens to live in my own house. He is a very earnest and hard working fellow and has real ability in certain lines; in Mechanical Drawing he is one of the best in the class. With personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 13, 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 Walter Humphreys https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7110a6525a5a54f957932841be7f07a5.jpg 349f091ab5aa372b8d071b87025cd9b5 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, April 11, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, April 11, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Liang: Your most interesting letter of March 6 is before me and I have enjoyed it thoroughly. Although the Sun children hear frequently from home, they always relish a word from the home land which comes through another channel, and so when I passed on to them a few remarks from your good letter to me, they were welcomed with eagerness and delight. Deeply as I appreciate your generous sentiments, I do with that it were possible for us all to eliminate from our minds any thoughts of material and business benefits that may result to either nation from a more friendly and intimate contact and relationship. I get thoroughly disgusted at times when I read articles in the American press and magazines which harp eternally on that one theme. Perhaps neither eastern nor westen civilization has been of a high enough standard to disassociate material from the moral and spiritual realm, but Heaven knows we ought to strive a bit harder to attaint that goal, for it is the only one which offers a future of world peace and happy and inspiring relationship. I congratulate you heartily on what you have done and are still doing in the work of your famine relief. It must be a tremendous burden and yet at the same time a most inspiring task. Committees are still actively at work in this country, and their appeals are constantly reaching us. I note, too, and with satisfaction that contributions are still coming in. Please remember me to any of my good friends you may happen to see out there in the Far East, and accept for Mrs. Liang and yourself my very kindest regards and best wishes for the days ahead. I do hope that we may have the pleasure of welcoming you again to this country and to the Andover home with which you are at least somewhat familiar. 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 April 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns M.T. Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9b3f5900c908d83c91e2d8e3dc5d85ba.jpg 75af3d8198226ec1dfe0e322b01f162c https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/37f670bfedd815e658f90361166ade9c.jpg 924fc4754a0997def013a211c1fb2cbc 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, March 7, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, March 7, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun, Let me thank you for your very satisfactory letter which reached me several days ago. I should have written you long before this but I have delayed in the hope of securing some fairly satisfactory basis on which to estimate a proper charge to make for the housing and care of your children. My only regret is that this matter has to be considered at all, for I am free to admit that I thoroughly enjoy having the youngsters with me. For the first few weeks they were a bit on the defensive, which was only natural, and I felt a bit apprehensive as to how the experiment was going to work out. But as soon as they found that they were among friends their reserve changed to warm friendliness, and they have been as responsive and as eager to cooperate as one could ask. Before deciding what would be a fair charge I allowed several months to pass in order to see just how my house bills were running under the new regime. I also talked the situation over fully with Mr. Robinson in New York, for I know that he had been back in the country long enough to appreciate something of the nature of the present high prices in America. As a result of all this it has seemed that a charge of twenty five dollars a week for each of the children would not be far from the actual cost to me, and hence I have made the charge on that basis. In Arthur’s case I am charging only the room rent, as he boards at the school dining hall, and at the customary rate obtaining in the private houses where our boys are allowed to room, namely seven dollars a week. I confess that the charge seemed to me at first too high and I had hoped that I could figure it at a lower rate. In this I was disappointed. The biggest and most difficult problem with which I have to deal is the servants. You can hardly appreciate its character. The excessive prices paid by our mills during the war completely demoralized the whole servant question, bad enough even before. Servants are hard to get in any case, and when secured they demand from three to four times what they received only a few years back. More than that they will generally refuse to work for a family that counts more than three or four persons at the table. When the children first arrived last fall both of my maids promptly struck for higher wages which I was obliged to pay to keep them. In spite of that they left shortly after, and since that time we have had to change many times. My housekeeper has had to spend many days in Boston in employment offices hunting for new maids. And in addition to all this we have found it necessary to employ a third maid to help for a few hours each day with the cleaning. My help alone cost me at present no less than thirty five dollars a week, and that does not include their board which I have to furnish. These details very likely have little interest to you, but I merely desire to acquaint you with all the circumstances that you may form some idea of the nature of my problem and the general basis of my estimates, Some of our food prices have already fallen a bit, and I can assure you that if a shrinkage here on in any other housekeeping expense makes it possible to reduce the charge mentioned the reduction will be gladly made, for I do not wish to make money out of the transaction, Were it not for the troublesome servant problem I should look upon the presence of these youngsters in my household as an unalloyed pleasure though not unmindful of the significant responsibility involved. I have also tried to view the situation from other angles for the purpose of checking up my figures. The charge at a local boarding house not far from the school is thirty five dollars a week. At the Phillips Inn, the small hotel run in connection with the school, the charge is still higher. Again the good boarding schools are now charging from twelve to fifteen and even sixteen hundred dollars a year, and as these schools are regularly in session only about eight months of the full year those who attend them must still meet the expenses of the other four months. On the basis of the arrangements which I have made for the children the total expense ought to be less than it would be if they had been placed at the outset in boarding schools. At the same time I think they are getting fully as much as if they were so located. Our local public schools are good and I have secured the cooperation of the superintendent in getting them the best teachers available. Miss Clemons, who has charge of my house, is deeply interested in her new charges and is unusually well qualified to give them what they need. For a number of years she conducted a private school of her own in a neighboring city and later taught in one of our best boarding schools. My own daughter had been under her care for several years and at was from this work that she came to take charge of my house and family after it was found necessary for my wife to go to a hospital. She is very fond of children, devotes herself without stint to their welfare, but is strict and insists on proper obedience. In my judgment the combination of the public school and the personal care that Miss Clemons gives offers as much as if not more than the best schools would ordinarily supply, at least for the first year's stay in a new country. Of course the children have in addition the advantage of being able to enjoy and profit by all that the big school here offers in the way of games entertainments, musicals, lectures etc. I should not dwell on all of these things if my problem were not a bit unusual, I should very much have preferred to sit down with you in advance and agree upon proper terms before undertaking to carry out my part of the transaction. Tat [sic] would have been the business like way of doing things: but of course that was out of the question. The fact that you have placed such complete and such unusual trust in me in leaving all details to my decision renders me all the more sensible of the obligation I owe. 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 March 7, 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/e81d018db48f88dc5e28a18a872a1f3e.jpg 224c97599f166e440834e24e9bce1563 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/480b85685bc1c381f653dcc0937c09c0.jpg a3969267a6292e5b9d4ae143d5f91027 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6e886f117873f7e0ae52244f4b2c06ab.jpg ab99721ab668bbba98e2143446df67e8 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 M.T. Liang, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, March 6, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from M.T. Liang, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, March 6, 1921 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource M.T. Liang Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 6, 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d30c8fbaaaf80269e1ea85092c4e511d.jpg fd12a82e63ea0bfadfd214f39281c5bb 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 Telegram from George W. Evans, Lynn, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns, February 18, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from George W. Evans, Lynn, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns, February 18, 1921 Relation A related resource Boston, Mass. February 18, 1921 Dr. A.E. Stearns Andover, Mass. Confirming the telephone will come with automobile about noon for the four Sun children. Return the same manner before 8 P.M. Telephone Lynn 2975, Charlestown 1450. Signed George W. Evans Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George W. Evans Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 18, 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 Telegram Dr. Alfred E. Stearns George W. Evans https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4308e2eedc229c1090cd447c063fd5d5.jpg e4c3173610bc7a9291cf31eb6da230f7 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4a0347cecbec1988ca51a8e52ca886a2.jpg be87c07659405ecd88eae8aee4beea5f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cfab2df93c2872c0e5292816e7b7d6d5.jpg 770494c4cf4a5dad6c3290a480c97744 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, February 8, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, February 8, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Liang: Your welcome letter and the New Year’s card you were good enough to send me reached my desk this morning. As to-morrow is the date of your own Chinese New Year, you certainly timed your missive well. Many thanks for both the card and the letter, and most of all for the friendly spirit back of then. We are planning to give the Chinese boys here something in the way of entertainment, and that will help them to remember the day, though apparently their memories need no jogging in that respect. I want them to feel, however, that though they are in a far away land, it is possible to do something that will make the day a bit different from the ordinary days of the American school year. The four members of the Sun family who are under my roof are an increasing delight and source of satisfaction to us all. They have come to fit into the family in a way that would make us feel very much lost without them. Arthur of course rooms only at the house and is primarily engaged in his school affairs, but he is responsive, always a gentleman, and in every way a desirable boy to have in the house. The three younger children are all that could be asked for. They are interested and earnest in their studies, responsive, and friendly to a unique degree. They are ready to fit in in every way and every time developments or an occasional emergency may demand, and so good natured and willing about it all that they have won the good will and affection of us all to an increasing degree. I really don’t know just how I would get along without them. Quincey Sheh, the last comer, is quiet and a bit shy as yet, but in every way an acceptable addition to the home circle. Frankly though, I do not feel that it is altogether wise to have so many of these Chinese boys under the same roof, merely because they aren't so ready to pick up their English. It is mighty easy for them to talk Chinese when they are together, and one can hardly blame them, but at the same time it does not improve their knowledge of English with the consequent lightening of pressure in their studies which the gain in English would insure. The present arrangement was the best I could work out for the boys at this time, but I will try to figure out something better before the next school year begins. I mean to write Mr. Sun in a few days, enclosing financial statements for all four of his children up to the beginning of the present term. This is the one item which troubles so, for I have found it very difficult to determine just what the children at the house should be charged. I do not wish to make anything out of the transaction, but at the same time it is of course necessary for me to cover the actual outlay and that is hard to determine. Rooms in private houses regularly bring $7 a week now, and board in the best private boarding houses is $12 per week. These two items alone would amount to $19 per week, therefore, on the basis of similar charges made to our boys in shcool [sic]. It is not possible for one in my position to give board at the same outlay on my par that would be true of a boarding house keeper who caters to a large number of boys, and by buying in wholesale lots can secure lower prices. On the other hand, I think I may fairly say that the board at my own table is as good as that supplied in the houses in question, for it is of course necessary for me to keep up a standard which is probably higher than I should think of indulging in were not the necessity constantly forced on me of entertaining guests of the school. Farther, the advent of these young friends at my house brought me immediately face to face with a demand from the kitchen for an increase in wages. I do not think any one in China can conceive of what the servant problem here is like. My two maids alone at the present time get as much money per week as I was accustomed to pay my highest priced cook a month only two or three years back. Of course in addition to these two main items the wear and tear item is a very considerable one, but a very difficult one to estimate. Miss Clemons devotes most of her time and thought to the household and seldom leaves it, and it seem to me that if a way could be worked out, it would be only fair to include in the charge an item, though I know she would insist that I would be a comparatively small item, to cover the extra time and labor which she has so generously given to the work. I do not mean to imply that she does not enjoy it thoroughly, but I happen to know that she has given up many out of town and other trips simply because she did not feel that she could safely dispense with the responsibility even for a limited time. I am going to send you a copy of the letter which I write to Mr. Sun, and I am going to ask you to be absolutely frank with me in criticizing any statements or conclusions made therein. I would give anything if I could sit down and talk out the matter face to face with you and Mr. Sun, especially when conditions in the two countries are absolutely different, as they are at the present time. I do hope that your country is going to weather its present conditions and that by the time the winter is over at least will face a greatly improved economic condition and a freedom from the internal strife and turmoil that have been so injurious to China and so beneficial to her enemies. America is doing something for the relief of your suffering people. Would that she would do more. Believe me with warmest personal regards and kind remembrances to any of my good friends over there whom you may happen to meet. 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 February 8, 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b26cc3d446665030481b8fdfe8a026a4.jpg 19ea635998d9969e828d6c0157d33b39 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 Arthur G. Robinson, International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, February 8, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Arthur G. Robinson, International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, February 8, 1921 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Arthur G. Robinson Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 8, 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 G. Robinson Dr. Alfred E. Stearns