89 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1e7507546b7c7f4dc8eba35c0ef483cf.jpg fac3ba2b1da0d118e90917ade5e56837 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 1930, 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 Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, September 15, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, September 15, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tommie: Your letter of September 3 reached me just as I was breaking up camp in the north country, and I have been too busy since my return to Andover to attend to the matters discussed in it until today. I admit that the budget you have submitted looks a bit large, but I admit also that in a wholly new environment one cannot estimate very closely in advance just what expenses will turn up. It seems to me probably best to send the larger part of the account you have specified, leaving out only the second installment on the tuition, which, as you have inferred, will not be due until later in the college year. All I can do is to ask you to exercise every reasonable care in incurring expenses, for we must find a way somehow to offset by economies the extra expense involved in the car and its operation. Otherwise I am sure your father would object, and very seriously, to my leniency in permitting you this luxury, for luxury it would certainly seem to him. I am sending this letter and check to Middlebury, since I do not yet know your New Haven address, and trusting that you will keep your good friends there informed of your whereabouts so that the letter may be duly forwarded to you wherever you are at this time. The moment you have a settled address in New Haven, please let me have it. With every best wish, believe me always 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 15, 1930 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 Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c9159f1870817f12bdde480847b01ca7.jpg a7e00f5ca7ffc06a79b6a6130c90a13d 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 Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, September 17, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, September 17, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: I have your letter of September 15 and am greatly disturbed that you should have refused to heed my instructions and ask your tutors to send me their bills or to send them yourself. Since I do not hold them responsible for this failure, but you only, I am sending the check to cover the $84.00 due your tutors and the $55.00 due the hotel. Immediately on receipt of this check pay the bills in question and send me at once the individual receipts. I can't continue to make requests of this kind which you carelessly disregard, and I must insist that this matter be settled at once and in a business-like way and according to these instructions. I shall await your early reply. Hereafter please realize that, when I ask you to do a thing in a certain way, I expect it to be done in that way without quibbling on your part. I haven't the time or the patience to invest extra labors that are wholly unnecessary and forced on me only because of your carelessness or negligence. Sincerely yours, Enc. 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 17, 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 Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/90691ae372bd71a73f97e8a2451182ca.jpg 5d8d56659125778d9738036f237b0de7 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 Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, September 20, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, September 20, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Tom: Your letter of September 17 reached me this morning. Evidently your last one to me was written before mine to you had been received. If so, I apologize for the seeming severity of my remarks about the bills. Anyway, l and since I sent the check direct to you, I am returning the tutors' bills and will ask you to settle them direct, sending back to me, however, the individual receipts. Trusting that you will meet with complete success in gaining admission to college and with best wishes for a good year, believe me Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 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 Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/620457d5859623aa700d22112dd94289.jpg b0ae1d78529981613051cb09488db6a7 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 1930, 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 10, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 10, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Thanks for your good letter of November 8 and for the detailed account you have given me of your expenditures to date. I am enclosing a check for five hundred dollars to replenish your account, or rather, to increase its size so that you may not feel nervous as to your financial status. Five hundred ought to carry you for some time, as the heaviest expenses of the year, barring the tuition, have already been met, and Christmas vacation ought not to draw too heavily on your balance. I don't know about your physical condition, though I had always supposed it was about as good as could be asked. If you have any dentistry to be done, however, don't put it off, please. It never pays to do so, and most of us live to regret our shortcomings in that respect. I am delighted to know that Yale is getting more bearable and that you are not so lonesome as formerly. Don’t forget that you can never expect in any large university the friendly and chummy atmosphere that you find in a small college. You will, however, in time develop your own circle of friends and will find life pretty interesting and worth while after all. My very best to you. Sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 10, 1930 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 Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ab4ed1f30a2f8707657eb9ef38b17519.jpg 4d1cfb86922765801c73eb04c0abb5b5 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8e61c3a377fabc3a783532f6155aa125.jpg 5714b96755cece8300a4a4ec002b94c8 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 1930, 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 5, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 5, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: I have read with great interest your most recent letter, and will try as best I can to answer some of your numerous inquiries. First of all comes the question of Mary’s return this summer. I have written your father to secure if possible an expression from him of his plans and wishes, but so far have heard nothing definite. I believe that Charlie as well as you has been hoping to accompany Mary back when she goes, so that I am not in a position to advise you as to whether or not it would be fair or even wise for you to consider such a plan too hopefully. At any rate, it seems to me that this is a question for your father rather than I or you to ultimately decide, and I would suggest that you write to him at once and frankly. I don't see how he can possibly be hurt by a letter of this kind from you, for you can put the thing in such a way as to indicate, of course, no desire or intention whatever of overriding his expressed wishes. Yes, I can well imagine that Yale and New Haven are much more expensive propositions than Middlebury College and Middlebury town. If you can secure a scholarship later, well and good. Your chances naturally will be greatly improved if your record this year is a good one; so make that the best possible. Your financial situation is about as it has been; that is your father regularly keeps a small balance with me to protect both you and Mary against emergencies. I hope for his sake, however, for I am sure he will find it difficult to understand a wide variance in expenses, that the New Haven expense account is not going to mount too fast, even though it must necessarily be a bit heavier than that at Middlebury. When it comes to the system of handling your allowances, please understand that I am not treating you a bit differently from the treatment accorded both Mary and Charlies, and Arthur, too, for that matter, when the latter two were here. The plan still holds in Mary's case. When Charlie left for London, his father wrote me explicitly to turn over to him the balance of the amount standing at that time to his credit. This I did, and since that time I have had nothing whatever to do with Charlie's funds. I am perfectly willing that you should have a reasonable balance in your bank account at New Haven, so if that balance is getting low at this time, let me know and I will be glad to replenish it a bit. I know exactly how you feel about your father’s wishes in respect to an American collegiate degree for you. Like many another Chinese father, I cannot help feeling that your father has attached as you have intimated a mythical value to a degree in itself. Perhaps because we here in America are fortunate enough to know how little of real value there may be in a degree just by itself, and how widely the values in these degrees vary, with that knowledge we are certainly not in any danger of attaching to a lone degree the high values that some foreigners do. I have discussed this proposition with your father in a number of letters in the past, but have to be a bit careful for I know he is perfectly sincere in his feelings and I would not for the world hurty [sic] him. Don’t be too sure that the Chinese representatives at New Haven are as bad as you think they are just now. If they are, then perhaps you can give them a lot of helpful advice. Anyway, look them over pretty carefully and be as friendly with them as you can until you can find out just what they need from you. In the process I am inclined to think that you will find that they are better than you now believe, and that some of them here and there may even be worth cultivating and eventually helpful friends. Just now I know you are in a pretty blue and discouraged mood, but that is natural enough after the happy year at Middlebury. But these changes are bound to come to us wherever we are, and it is our job to make the readjustments as smoothly as we can and without losing our faith and courage. 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 November 5, 1930 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 Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/743529eed59e37983a7f82e06cee64b1.jpg 3cea58da95c1644fa8c87dd456630eed 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 1930, 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., September 24, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., September 24, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: I am immensely interested in the contents of your letter of recent date. Of course, after the experience at Middlebury, you are bound to find a new and especially larger institution, as you would surely find a now and larger place, wholly different and in many spots, terribly disappointing. You have a complete readjustment to make, and that takes time and patience if it is to be made right in the end. I know you will find it hard sledding for a while, but I am equally confident that in a big university like Yale where there are scores, indeed hundreds, of good level-headed, red-blooded Americans, you will in time make contacts and find now and delightful friends. So don’t get discouraged, but keep your head up and tackle the main job that is yours just now. Of course, after the friendly contacts and complete understanding at Middlebury, it must hurt to have ignorant street urchins and thugs make uncomplimentary remarks to yon on the street. That, however, is something that all of us encounter the world over, and will so long as human nature in every race and every land develops its different types of humanity. I can well recall some of the comments, which I of course couldn’t understand exactly, but the significance of which was all too apparent, that were passed to me the first few times I strolled about the city of Peking. As long as human nature is in a measure perverse, as it surely is, and until the time when we come to realize that skin or color or race make the real man no hotter or no worse than he actually is in character and soul, so long must we face these disagreeable factors in life. Anyway, I am sure you are going to win out. Go to it as you would tackle a job on the football field with the determination that you don’t propose to be licked and that you will prove before the game is over that you are just as good as if not a bit better than the other follow. Ever sincerely yours, AES/C 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, 1930 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 Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cd7a40bfd2b244bae38b3c7cf9aced13.jpg da2139f17de1a5a319dcf182e2a8b930 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 1931, 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., April 1, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., April 1, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Many thanks for your most painstaking explanation of your expense account. I didn’t for a minute mean to put you to all this trouble, and the only point with me was that I could not quite understand why the two remittances this year should have come so close together and another one required so soon. On studying your account more carefully, however, I find that apparently the total remittances for the year, even if two of them do happen to come close together, are not likely to be much higher than those of last year. Hence I am going to send the check anyway, and trust you to keep your expenses within as reasonable bounds as possible, especially in view of the tremendous loss your father has to suffer on account of the exchange whenever he makes a remittance. Don’t think for a minute that I do not appreciate and am not mighty happy over the change in attitude towards the handling of money which became pronounced in your case after you went to college. Nothing pleased me more than that, and I have always felt that you handled the situation when at Middlebury in a remarkably satisfactory way. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why I got unduly nervous when I thought you might by chance be dropping a bit from this high standard. My best to you. Ever 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 1, 1931 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 Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bb0b27750ff017a21fbefbdf45208dfd.jpg 192595820a2cb1be6c35be781ca45e00 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 1931, 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., April 28, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., April 28, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: I am sorrier than I can tell you for the final decision of your father, and can readily understand your depression at the moment, so clearly revealed in your frank letter to me of April 23. It is difficult for me to know just what to say, except that I admire your courage and your readiness to accept your father's instructions. That means that you have yourself in control and have developed those traits of character that make for stability and, in the end, rugged manhood. Some way, I can’t help believing that eventually you will [illegible] the feel that what seemed most discouraging at the moment proved under the test of time to have been for the best. Anyway, I know you will give the work still ahead of you the best you have in you, so that whatever turns up later that will mean that you will be just so much better prepared to deal with life and its problems and deal with them right. In the meantime, I shall hope to get a chance to talk things over with you and shall be ready always, as I have been in the past, to consult with you and help you just so far as it lies in my power to do so. By the fine record you made at Middlebury, you won my confidence and good will to a degree that would not permit me to do anything less than stand by as a friend, something that I have always tried to do, to be sure, but perhaps at times in the past with more misgivings than I have today. And so continue to keep your courage and your poise, and the best of luck to you. 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 April 28, 1931 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 Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/da578eeb6d2cc5f67cdbf27397d41480.jpg 112fa249c3148c95acf53a5b5ea1e019 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 1931, 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., February 2, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., February 2, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Thanks for your good letter of January 29. Even if Mary has decided that she doesn’t care to go to Europe, she has no business to leave me in the dark as she has done, or even to delay me in making arrangements for her passage back to China. I have no interest in the trip to Europe beyond my wish to carry out the instructions of your father, which I assumed ware prompted by his desire to do what Mary herself wished. Your father wrote me in his letter that he had promised Mary this trip, and it seemed evident that he himself believed that he was doing a real favor which she desired and would thoroughly appreciate. Anyway, I wish you would tell Mary to write me at once so that I will know what to plan, for I am in duty bound to carry out her father’s instructions or else explain to him why I haven’t done so. I do hope your exam results will be all and even more than you had anticipated. Success and good luck to you! Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 2, 1931 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 Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a1a60598d219c79f9b53345566567de7.jpg c171629d6531cb3abc0184d3245e3ebd 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 1931, 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., February 3, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., February 3, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Your interesting letter of February 2, with its most interesting documents covering your expenditures, has been duly received. Many thanks for both. I am returning the latter herewith after having looked them over with some astonishment and a good bit of satisfaction, too, when I recall how difficult it was in those earlier days to get you to keep an accurate expense account. I can’t help gasping a bit as I study these sheets which have involved so much meticulous care and labor on your part. My account book is at the house so that I don’t know just how you stand financially at the moment, though I am sure that there is a fairly good surplus in your favor - one big enough, at least, to take care of your expenses for the rest of the year, perhaps longer. Just as soon as I can look over the books and check I will make out and forward a check to you that will cover you for the balance of the term, anyway, and perhaps for the rest of the year. I have just received a find letter from Mary, so shall have to take back what I said in your letter about my disgust at her delay in answering my earlier letter to her. To be sure, she should have acknowledged it a bit sooner, but I am ready to forgive and forget under the circumstances. There is a good chance that I may have to come down to New Haven before long in search of one or two teachers for next year. If so, I hope that you and Mary and I can get together for a little reunion and a good old-fashioned visit. There will be lots to talk over. Trusting that the exam reports are going to be all to the good, and with continued 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 February 3, 1931 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 Thomas Sun