89 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/de637c420da8fe637e8fb6736960dedd.jpg 6e8f5a744e40fb3eab68b0342fefb7c9 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8db3543c1cb4ceac5cb8aa6c512e991b.jpg f63ee2545a1671049842c79a4ad785f5 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 Mary Sun, Elmira College, September 22, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, September 22, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: This morning’s mail brings me your good letter of recent date, the receipt of which I have been anxiously awaiting. Yesterday I mailed you a check for $20.00 in answer to the request contained in your telegram: so that I hope you will be able to tide things over until more cash arrives. Just a word about your accommodation for the year. Of course I have been badly in the dark. My own feeling was that you ought to be in a dormitory and that at your age and with your past experience at Abbot and elsewhere you were perfectly capable of handling yourself under dormitory conditions. On the other hand, I know from experience that many of the Chinese girls go to college here have, in the past at least, invested their first year in good private homes. When Mr. Robinson assured me that it was your father's earnest wish that such an arrangement should be made for you and that he himself was prepared to go to Elmira and select a home, I naturally felt that this was the only wise and proper course to pursue. You can understand, I am sure, that I could not be expected to know that Mr. Robinson did not fully and impartially represent your father's views. Under the circumstances it was only natural that I should have taken the position I did and insist you should follow his wishes. The situation was further and very seriously complicated by your failure to notify me that you were planning to spend the week-end in Trenton, for I had naturally assumed from your earlier letters that you would go at once from Springfield to Elmira and that you could, therefore, be reached in one at least of these places. I did not appreciate the fact that a night in New York would be necessary to accomplish this. Under the circumstances I did not criticize the plan that was made but do criticize, and rather severely, your failure to keep me posted. I had to send at least a half a dozen telegrams to various persons in my attempts to locate you. Mr. Robinson had made his arrangements to meet you part way and take the trip with you. When he discovered that this was impossible and I did not even know where you were, he naturally inferred that you had taken the law into your own hands too much and that I, as your American guardian, was not keeping proper oversight of you. Undoubtedly he will report this to your father and to my embarrassment. I am sure you will appreciate my position and why I complain. Miss Robinson telegraphed me after her visit to Elmira, stating that her talk with the college authorities and convinced her that the dormitory arrangement was the proper thing. Miss Mallett, the Registrar, wrote me to the same effect. I immediately wired Miss Robinson approving the dormitory plan and wrote Miss Mallett a similar endorsement. Under the circumstances I do hope that the matter has been satisfactorily straightened out, but I am sure you will agree now that most of the trouble has arisen from your earlier failure to keep me clearly and promptly posted of your whereabouts and plans. Please don't let this happen again, for it has caused me an enormous amount of worry and good bit of time at just the busiest season of the school of the school year, when I could ill afford to suffer either. For some time I have been planning to put you on a definite allowance, for I think you are old enough now and are disposed to be careful in your expenditures. Certainly Charlies and Quincey do better in this way than they did under the old scheme. I am always glad to send them lump sums which they can disburse as they wish. If you can do as well as they, the arrangement will prove in every way wise. Anyway, I shall be glad to take the matter up on the new basis beginning next month, and after you have had a chance to figure a little more closely and clearly what your college expenses are likely to be. I have already sent a check to the college treasurer for $250., which from the catalogue I supposed necessary but which from the bill received from them yesterday would seem to be a bit too much. Do write me often and keep me fully informed about your work and life at college. I shall be interested in everything that concerns your welfare. With all good wishes, 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 September 22, 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/c07827cc47d7294a53b9d9e72d31bb6b.jpg f35e0e7ab35b983074e2658cfddc0fb6 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bfe6eda60d78a0ca2f51b0e4819807e1.jpg 95a6e5e555d997ec3b0718bd2d5f6487 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 Sun, MIT, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 22, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Arthur Sun, MIT, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 22, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Arthur 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 22, 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 Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1414177b3863544fd7a044bd6347c762.jpg 3a98c4a2d48346dc3740d1fb382febc2 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 23, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Carlie Mallett, Registrar, Elmira College, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 23, 1929 Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Stearns, In accordance with your letter of September 21, I will notify Miss Sun that she is to live in the dormitory. It happens that all our other foreign students have lived in the dormitories and it seemed to us that Miss Sun would be very isolated if she lived in a private home entirely removed from the college environment. We had received no notification of the change of plan, except through Mrs. Pittman, and did not v/ant to take any further steps until we had your authorization. Sincerely, C 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 23, 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/efab9e6e0e680f3b054cd7b1fdad1b6e.jpg 6063467abb6d4115bd920c380296586a 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 from Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 23, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from from Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 23, 1926 Relation A related resource DR ALFRED STEARNS PHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER MASS. ADMITTED HONOR IN PHYSICS TRIGONOMETERY 76 IN ENGLISH MUST HAVE $500.00 TO MEET COLLEGE BILLS BY TOMORROW THEY WILL NOT SEND BILLS PLEASE ACT PROMPTLY WILL WRITE YOU IN DETAILS THOMAS SUN 36 HEPBURN HALL 1234PM Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 23, 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 Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/665c3818e043a7a0537507bf5dbcf355.jpg 9b7286df372a6f13067fc8941ffd831e 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 Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., September 23, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., September 23, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: Just a line to acknowledge the recent of your nice letter of September 21 and the receipt for the $500.00 recently sent you. I like the sound of that new dormitory room of yours and shall welcome the chance to visit you there when next go to Amherst. Take care of yourself and don’t get any more colds. You will enjoy the new year thoroughly, I am confident. Ever 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 23, 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. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6e0547aff2c332cb317478e84c729f30.jpg d333ba768cf5ab86544f915d890cf86b 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 (YMCA), St Louis, Missouri, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 20, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Arthur G. Robinson (YMCA), St Louis, Missouri, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 20, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Stearns: It was with a feeling of great regret that I left New York Saturday night, having had no word from you that would enable me to make any definite arrangements for Mary at Elmira. I am afraid that you may have sent a telegram that was undelivered. Careful word was left with the telegraph clerk, with the elevator man and others so that I would get any message sent up on Saturday afternoon, but the building being officially closed may have side-tracked the message that you perhaps sent. It really causes me much concern to think that I was not better able to help out in this matter so close to the heart of our good friend C.Y. Sun. I hope soon to have some word that will relieve my anxiety. Yesterday morning as I came thru Syracuse I telephoned my sister in Cortland just how matters stood. She will be prepared to carry on for me, but there will of course be delay in forwarding to her any messages that may have gone from you to me at our New York office, which will be taken care of today. From Buffalo I telephoned Mrs. Ely Pittman’s home that I could give them no definite word but asked her to be ready in case she should turn up. I also left with Mrs. Pittman your address in case she should want to send you the statement about expenses which I had asked her to send me. I said that Mary had engaged a room at the college and that there might be no chance of placing her in the Pittman home. I hope all this lack of definite arrangements on my part will not upset Mary and that both of you will forgive mistakes that I may have made in trying to handle matters in so short a time. With my fall arrangements as they are, I don’t see how I could have done otherwise and I appreciate, as I have said before, the difficulty of your position at this, the busiest time of your school year. As soon as convenient I should be glad to get from you a full statement as to how matters stand. Sincerely yours, P.S. You may address me up until 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 Correspondence Arthur G. Robinson Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/15035ef3941fcf5bd9484954f646788e.jpg 57664cd9b57237d8923ecc100dda8059 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f09454dc9596aa9b2f5c5fed1bc38b6c.jpg 679591385292cb59ded2e8f1b55d6539 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 (YMCA), St. Louis, Missouri, September 23, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson (YMCA), St. Louis, Missouri, September 23, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Robinson: Yesterday morning I received your special delivery letter of September 20, but, as I was just leaving town to place a new Chinese ward of mine in his school for the year, I have had no chance to reply until today. As it is, I am afraid I can't add much to my last letter. After visiting Elmira, your sister wired me that it seemed best to accept the dormitory plan, as this arrangement was vigorously endorsed by the college authorities. The next day I received a letter from the Registrar, urging very strongly that the dormitory arrangement be approved and stating that the proposed plan for a room in a private house outside was unusual and did not meet with the approval of the college authorities. Under the circumstances I could only wire your sister to approve the selection of the room assignment already made for Mary in a dormitory. A long letter received from Mary explains that her presence in Trenton over the week-end was due to the fact that she had to go to New York in any case to reach Elmira and would have to pass a night either there or somewhere near by on the journey. She felt, therefore, that it was not only proper but the wise thing to do to stay over the week-end with one of her school friends who lived in Trenton. I wrote her that I could not blame her for the decision but that I did blame her very severely for not keeping me fully posted as to her plans and movements, her failure to do so in this instance causing both you and myself serious anxiety and wholly unnecessary investment of time and labor. 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 23, 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 Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6f4943759c7983281b2e17f4e613b3c8.jpg cf317637f97838ad40d1be3e08e1e88b 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 Mrs. Eli Pitman, Elmira, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 21, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mrs. Eli Pitman, Elmira, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 21, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns: About two weeks ago Mr. R.W. Harbison came to see me about a home for Mary Sun, who is entering college here this fall. He was in town trying to find a Christian home for her and at the suggestion of Mr. Reed, our Y.M.C.A Secretary, came to see me. I really have my life quite full, but having a daughter in China, and having had some of the Chinese girls in our home on furlough, my heart went out to Mary consented to her coming. I was to hear from Dr. Harbison as soon as he could communicate with you. It was a bit longer than I thought it would be before I heard from him, so I called up the College to see if Mary had registered and the Registrar said that she had, and that she was assigned to the Broughton Cottage. I told her of Mr. Harbison's desire for a Christian home for Mary and she said that they had heard nothing from you about it and that all arrangements had been made for her at the Cottage, so I said nothing more. Then, a day or two after, Mr. Harbison's letter came, Mr. Pittman’s Secretary was here at the time and she offered to go over to the College and get the information Mr. Harbison wished, and said that she could tell them about our home as I perhaps would not wish to. She has known us for twenty-five years. I let her go and the Registrar said that nothing could be done now but that she would talk to President Lent about it. She sent back Mr. Harbison's letter the next day with a note which I sent on to Mr. Harbison. Yesterday a telephone message came from Mr. Harbison while I was at Church, a friend receiving the message. He said that he had heard nothing from me but that he still wished her to come and wished that I would write you and his sister in Cortland. They gave me none of the information Mr. Harbison desired. I think I must now leave the matter in your hands for they seem already to think at the College that I am interfering. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mrs. Eli Pitman 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mrs. Eli Pitman https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9f863a32c2f67c8515ae96a39a089c89.jpg c254219e0f6d125e083daeebea74e1eb https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b64711f69c845238701ab433cd3fcbc9.jpg d7b838cc3c7e3138541fe051de71ab05 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 Mrs. Eli Pitman, Elmira, New York, September 24, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mrs. Eli Pitman, Elmira, New York, September 24, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mrs. Pitman: I have your letter of September 21 and am sorry beyond words for all the trouble you have been caused over the uncertainly [sic] in regard to Mary Sun's rooming arrangement at Elmira. I, myself, have been tremendously disturbed by the whole affair which has had, seemingly, endless complications. Mr. Robinson, to whom you refer, is secretary of the Y.M.C.A in Tientsin, Mary's home, and is a personal friend of her father. He happens to be in this country this summer and, when he heard of the college arrangements made for Mary, expressed the view that Mary's father wished her to room for the first year, at least, in some good Christian home. He volunteered to find such a home, if he could, and I, of course, accepted gladly this offer. In the meantime, Mary had signed up for a dormitory room in the college, and the interchange of a number of telegrams left us both somewhat uncertain as to what the final outcome would and should be. Mr. Robinson later wrote me that he had asked his sister, who lived in Cortland, to go to Elmira to complete the arrangements, and I wired Mary Sun, who had mildly protested against the change of plan, that she must accept this new arrangement and cancel the college room contract at once. I assumed that there would still be time for the college to fill the vacancy thus created. In the meantime, it appears that the college authorities had strongly advised Mary not to live outside the college buildings. When Mr. Robinson’s sister appeared at Elmira, she received the same urgent advice and wired me that under the circumstances she felt that the dormitory arrangement should hold. A letter from the Registrar of Elmira College, received by me the next day, contained also the same advice couched in very strong language. and in view of these facts I felt that the only thing I could properly do was to wire Mary to stand by the original dormitory plan. I assumed, of course, that Miss Robinson would explain the situation fully to you, and I am sorry if she did not do so at the time. Trusting that the above explanation will make the situation perfectly clear and will show you, too, that all of us tried to the best of our ability to act in good faith to all concerned, 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 September 24, 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 Mrs. Eli Pitman https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b292aad834ff484a32648cda9f226595.jpg 72b6da9f5364dc7f4517deea560768e6 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 to Alfred E. Stearns, September 24, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Mary Sun to Alfred E. Stearns, September 24, 1926 Relation A related resource VACCINATED SIX YEARS AGO CHINA WHERE SHALL I BOARD 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 24, 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