88 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/78b2ff1fe5951694705af8c4fc009e1d.jpg af14f9c75d706975afccd6e20578b46a https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a4b7be6589bcabc7402575bc270e7b9f.jpg ef0cee5cda7b82e99eddac5d01f3ac37 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 September-December 1926, 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, National Council of Young Men's Christian Associations (YMCA) of the United States, New York to Alfred E. Stearns, September 18, 1926 (regarding Mary Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Arthur G. Robinson, National Council of Young Men's Christian Associations (YMCA) of the United States, New York to Alfred E. Stearns, September 18, 1926 (regarding Mary Sun) Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Stearns: This is merely to supplement my letter of last night which I took to the station myself hoping it would reach you this morning, and to enclose the letter of explanation to Mary. Please read this over and withhold it if you think advisable and make such explanation as you feel would best satisfy Mary and help her not to regard me as rather an intruder into her plans. We both understand, I think, the difficulties of making such arrangements at long distance and without a personal chat. This comes at a very difficult time for me with our Fall work just opening and engagements pressing in. In looking over time tables it seemed to me that everything considered, it would be best for Mary to come from Massachusetts to Syracuse and then make the trip from there over the Lackawanna by way of Binghamton, or motor from Cortland to Elmira. My sister Esther is quite free and is only too happy to help out in this very important beginning of Mary’s college course so I hope you will not feel that any demand you may make upon her will be too much. I too am eager for Mary to know my mother and sisters and feel that in these months ahead such an acquaintance may be of very real help to her. I have just called up our traffic an on this matter of connections and he agrees that to take a through car from Boston to Syracuse is the quickest and most convenient way, having, of course, the advantage of the motor car trip either from Syracuse or from Binghamton to Elmira. There is just one other matter that somewhat embarrasses me, but having Mr. Sun’s word in the matter I feel less hesitation in referring to my expenses in regard to Mary. Mr. Sun, just before I left Tientsin, had gotten some American gold which he wanted me to take as an advance against any expense which I might incur meeting or helping his children. I told him I did not want to do that but promised I would keep a careful statement of expenses which I would submit to him. It would, of course, take some two months to be reimbursed in this way and I am wondering if you would feel like making an advance upon my presenting statements of the expense I have incurred. Please be very frank in this matter for I can of course handle the expense in another way if this should not seem to be the best way to you. You can probably understand that on a Y.MC.A. secretary’s salary there is not much margin for extra expenses like this. Sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Phillips Academy Andover, Mass. 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 September 18, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur G. Robinson Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b48c209c6cbd50618d17f6937a3039b5.jpg 0d1499c2e817773e1b720a583355238d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9e5e1337c8fbfe73fda6b23f84b629bf.jpg 9501c30a0a0b05075d7113cb28213ca1 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/42a3113ab6c925d7ebbf3c556abe6a36.jpg 2e861bc9b0a04c0b57dce2cf0685563d 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 September-December 1926, 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 G. Robinson, St Louis, Missouri, September 20, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, St Louis, Missouri, September 20, 1926 Description An account of the resource Dear Mr. Robinson: Your letter of September 17 reached me Saturday afternoon and that of September 18 reached me this morning. In the meantime I have been wiring to Mary's friends and to the indefinite Trenton address, seeking information as to Mary's whereabouts and plans. I can't understand her action. She had my definite permission to visit her friend in Springfield and with the understanding that she was going direct from Springfield to Elmira. Naturally the discovery that she was in Trenton upset me badly, though I am assuming that she found it easier to reach Elmira by way of New York and chose that route, stopping over for the week-end with the friend in question. She had visited once before the school friends in Dover, Delaware, not far from Wilmington, but the Trenton friend is a new one, though doubtless O.K. Mary's Springfield friend wired yesterday, giving the exact address, and I have sent two messages to Mary since that address arrived, asking her to wire you the details of her plans, with the date and hour of arrival in Buffalo. I gave the New York address and hoped the message might reach you before you left or would be forwarded to you en route. On receipt of your second letter this morning, l with your sister's address, I wired Mary at once, again using the Trenton address, asking her to telegraph your sister the hour of her expected arrival in Buffalo, Syracuse, or Binghamton. I had to make this message a bit indefinite, as I did not know which route would be likely to prove the natural one from Trenton. The earlier assumption was that Mary was to go direct from Springfield, though Buffalo would seemingly be the objective. My fear is that this message may have arrived too late and that Mary may now be in Elmira. Naturally this action of Mary and seeming disregard of my interest and authority have distressed me greatly. It is an attitude that was apparently strongly encouraged when Mary was at Abbot Academy last year, furnishing one of the reasons why I was glad to sever that connection when I did, though I would have been willing to have put up with even this disturbing factor if it had not been necessary to make the change for scholastic reasons. Under the circumstance I am forwarding your letter to Mary, as I think you have not put the matter a bit too strongly. A wire received from Mary last Saturday reads: "Impossible to keep Mr. Robinson's plan if you wish me to be loyal to you. Letter explains." No letter of explanation has come, and what in the world Mary means by loyalty to me in the matter is beyond my comprehension. I answered that message more vigorously than ever and told her that I must insist on the full acceptance of your plan, which had her father's approval as well as my own. If I could possibly leave my duties here at this time, I should jump on the train for Elmira myself and try to straighten out the tangle. As it is I can only hope that if your sister misses Mary en route to college, she will be generous enough to make an early trip there and use her good influences to put into operation the plan on which we had agreed. As to your expenses, by all means send me a statement. I am sure that it is only right and certainly in accordance with Mr. Sun's own wishes that you should be reimbursed for all the extra cash, to say nothing of time, you have invested in this problem. I don't believe that even Mr. Sun realizes the anxious thought and time that some of us give to these interesting visitors from the Orient, but I know that it has always been his wish that every extra expense which their presence has caused should be promptly met in this way. I, too, had assumed that Mary quite understood that she was to consult me and follow my wishes before making her definite plans for a room at Elmira. Before talking with you, I had assumed, of course that she would go through rhe usual process and take a dormitory room, for it seemed to me that, in view of her five years experience in this country she would be competent to do this and without detriment to her work and standing. Frankly, my summer was about the most upset one I have ever gone through, and in view of the necessity of getting my daughter and Miss Clemons off for Europe, coupled with the critical illness of my wife, whose death for a number of weeks was regarded as only a matter of days, I am afraid that my mind did not center to the extent it should have done on Mary's particular problem. Further, I am sure that we can yet straighten matters out, and I have become sufficiently accustomed to Mary's protests against plans that did not fit in completely with her own wishes not to be unduly disturbed by that factor. I shall continue to keep you posted as to Mary's movements and progress, at least so far as Mary herself is willing to post 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 September 20, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7f14e962599cc5e365e42f0519102064.jpg ae7b3aa6c7128dcda031b42bef4b50d1 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 September-December 1926, 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 Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, St. Louis, Missouri, September 20, 1926 (regarding Mary Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, St. Louis, Missouri, September 20, 1926 (regarding Mary Sun) 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 September 20, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Telegram Arthur G. Robinson Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/da26c64b654502164de1fad03d0a6706.jpg bce037d487117cfb5fb44ca8acfa0d41 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 September-December 1926, 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 Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Trenton, New Jersey, September 20, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Trenton, New Jersey, September 20, 1926 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 September 20, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Telegram Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f8a5f5937006fe34b1f83e6415cd486f.jpg 5e38ca66e449c456a61deac61c242381 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 September-December 1926, 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 Esther G. Robinson (Mrs. Arthur), Cortland, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 20, 1926 (regarding Mary Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Esther G. Robinson (Mrs. Arthur), Cortland, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 20, 1926 (regarding Mary Sun) Relation A related resource ALFRED E STEARNS PRIN PHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER MASS MET MARY SUN THIS AFTERNOON ELMIRA PLAN TO HAVE MARY ROOM OUTSIDE IS MUCH OPPOSED AT COLLEGE AND MRS PITMAN UNWILLING INTERFERE I AM TAKING THE INITIATIVE FOR MY BROTHER ARTHUR IS IN STLOUIS AND I CANNOT REACH HIM IT SEEMS NECESSARY THAT MARY TAKE THE COLLEGE ROOM IF THERE IS NO SERIOUS OBJECTION KINDLY WIRE YOUR OK TO THE REGISTRATION ESTHER G ROBINSON Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Esther 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 September 20, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Telegram Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Esther G. Robinson (Mrs. Arthur) Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7712653c130d844c761f6953ce2602bb.jpg d26e23f2288b5a19b9269bfa4f2a2f96 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 September-December 1926, 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 Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 20, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 20, 1926 Relation A related resource ALFRED E STEARNS PHILLIPS ACADEMEY [sic] ANDOVER MASS MISS ROBINSON PUT ME IN Y W C A TOLD TO GO TO DORMITORY TOMORROW BECAUSE MR ROBINSON MADE US ARRANGEMENTS PLEASE SEND TWENTY DOLLARS I HAVE TO HAVE SOME MONEY FOR BOOKS AND ETC I AM WRITING MARY SUN 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 September 20, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Telegram Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/639415d0e83c259d08b8046cffc863af.jpg b3139094b19ebce9c36462e3502f4f97 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 September-December 1926, 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 Carlie Mallett, Registrar, Elmira College, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 20, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Carlie Mallett, Registrar, Elmira College, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 20, 1929 Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Stearns, We have to-day received a telegram from Miss Mary Sun asking us to cancel her room reservation. The room, of course, has been reserved since last spring for Miss Sun who has signed and returned the contract, and it will be difficult, if not impossible, to fill the room at this late date. Moreover, we feel very strongly that if Miss Sun lives outside the college buildings she will lose a most necessary and precious part of college experience. Even more than American students, the foreign students need every possible contact with the other students and with the faculty, and in living in an outside house, where there are no other students, she will be most unfortunately isolated. The other foreign students here live in the dormitories and become a vital and integral part of the student body. It would seem almost better for a foreign student not to enter an American college, then to attend it in so artificial and unusual a way. Will you please let us know at once what you wish Miss Sun to do, so that we may know what to tell her when she arrives either to-morrow evening or Wednesday morning? Sincerely, Registrar Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Carlie Mallett 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 20, 1929 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Carlie Mallett Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d4594661be85d97b4639aba7fa4bced0.jpg da4d36be90816cbcdbf9a85a8a8e646c https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0fb6bfbe081430245c720a86ea3000d0.jpg 823319dd45eb618f0b6b0fe8355687ec 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 September-December 1926, 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 Carlie Mallett, Elmira College, September 21, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Carlie Mallett, Elmira College, September 21, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Miss Mallett: I have your letter of September 20. The room arrangements for Mary Sun have been very much complicated through the appearance on the scene of Mr. Robinson, a very close and intimate friend of Mary's father in China. Mr. Robinson brought with him the last reports of Mr. Sun's desires, and these were, apparently, that Mary should room for her first year in college in some good private family. Under the circumstances I felt that this was the only course to pursue and expressed my approval of the plan, but seemingly very much to Mary's regret. Mr. Robinson, in the meantime, had arranged with a family in Elmira to take the girl for the year, and I consequently asked Mary to notify you at once of her desire to cancel the room in the dormitory, believing that there would still be an opportunity for you to find another occupant before the college actually open. I am standing ready to reimburse you for the room in case this proved to be impossible. Mr. Robinson had planned to meet Mary last Saturday and go with her to Elmira, but we were unable to locate her at the moment, as she was visiting friends; and so his sister made the trip to Elmira and wired me this morning, an hour or two before your letter arrived, telling me of her interview with you and her conclusion that under the circumstances the dormitory room should be held and be occupied by Miss Sun. She asked for my advice, and I wired her at once expressing my approval. I hope, therefore, that the trouble has now been revoved [sic] and that the arrangements made will prove in every way I am a bit surprised at what you say of the artificiality and unusualness of housing a girl, and especially a foreigner, outside of the college buildings for the first year of her college course, for I know that in most of the colleges such an arrangement is the one commonly made and preferred. Of course my only desire is to do what is best for the girl herself and at the same time carry out, so far as I decently can, her father's expressed wishes. 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 September 21, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Carlie Mallett Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b4f614b9ce03be07ec66bc66b0d707f1.jpg bc27eb97b5b6490a8df5ee0cca6edb7f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3d8c49064a949bb729237de717bbe461.jpg e5b571a007d6be6f509d690e6048629f 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 September-December 1926, 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, Amherst, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns, September 21, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns, September 21, 1926 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 September 21, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings September-December 1926, 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, Elmira, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 20, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 20, 1926 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 September 20, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun