90 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3ae4410762d5600322d4b6a7affc65fd.jpg 8d261a577f6a785eff3d445baa914e57 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., January 20, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., January 20, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tommy: I have read with the keenest interest and sympathy your letter of January 16, though naturally I am terribly sorry to find how thoroughly upset you are over conditions and your own situation. Anyway, I am glad to know that you have decided so definitely that you ought to go home, for when you wore here last year I couldn’t make up my mind as to just what you thought you ought to do or where you ought to be. I don’t know what I can do beyond writing your father that in my judgment you ought to be allowed to go home at the end of this year for at least a year’s time. That I am willing and glad to do, for I do think you deserve a break, at least, in your American work, and my own judgment is that if you are going to live in China for the rest of your life, you ought not to delay your return any longer than is absolutely necessary. It will be increasingly difficult for you to make the readjustments when you get back, and it will be hard enough at best. So cheer up, and I will write your father at once and see if we can persuade him that the home journey is the thing for you. I hope most earnestly that he will so decide. But what about Charlie? My guess is that Charlie would like to go just as badly as you would. Possibly I can bring your father to believe that it is now time for all three of you to go back and rejoin your own family. Don’t hope too much on the outcome of my venture, for I can’t tell just how your father will take my intervention. He may even resent it. The best I can do is to try, and that, as I have said above, I am ready and glad to do. So, once again, cheer up, and believe me with all best wishes, Ever sincerely yours, Before I write your father please tell me if it is proper for me to tell him that you have written me on the subject. 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 January 20, 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/d18d832d3e82879a4ba34b2e5562a80b.jpg da3b0320542b1be04dc66d87a55ed62f 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., January 24, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., January 24, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tommy: I have read carefully and with interest your letter of January 22, just received. Don’t worry - I am not going to give you away, for I have a lot of sympathy with your feelings and I want you to feel that you can always talk with me with the utmost freedom about your problems and interests. If I can’t help you in matters of this kind, it won’t be from any lack of desire on my part, I can assure you. Very possibly I shall be in New Haven before the term is over, though I have no definite engagement at present to call me down that way. If I not, and can’t got there, I shall be tempted to have you run up here some time so that we can talk things over frankly and fully face to face. Anyway, I grateful to you for telling me how far I should go in stating your case to your father, and I will be very careful not to mention anything relating to your mother, but just re-emphasize in a general way the arguments I have advanced in the past in favor of your return to China, if only for a comparatively short period. By the way, did Mary ever receive my letter in which I wrote her of her father’s letter to me saying that he wished her to return to China after a visit in England this next summer. Your father asked me to make proper arrangements for the trip, including steamer reservations, etc., and it is imperative that I should act soon if these arrangements are to prove satisfactory. I wrote Mary some time ago, and very fully, about it all, telling her just what her father’s instructions were, but I haven’t had even an acknowledgment of the letter and am naturally worried. Won’t you see her and ask her to write me at once so that I may know just what I am do to? So cheer up, and good 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 January 24, 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/36c5cbec04261996d56186c57bd08da3.jpg 2efc29c277b34d125824975ab7e07d4c 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., January 5, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., January 5, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tommy: I have read with keenest interest your newsy letter received this morning, but I am sorrier than I can tell you to learn of the distressing news you have had from home. Such things must happen, of course, and they do happen to all of us, but so long as we are human and with human reactions, they are bound to bring their sorrow and distress. My sympathy goes out to you and Mary in fullest measure, but I am confident that you will face these hard knocks with the courage and control which both of you have been developing so finely in recent years I fully share your feelings that it would be well to break the news slowly to Mary of the death of her sister. Needless to say, I am distressed to learn that Mary has been ill in bed, but trust with you that she will shortly be her own good healthy self again. Undoubtedly she will be better off at work as you say than with time on her hands in which to think about her troubles. Curiously, I had already written Mary only two days ago a letter which ought to cheer her immensely, for it contained the news just transmitted to me in a letter from her father that after her graduation in June she was to arrange for a trip to Europe, which her father had earlier promised her, and then start back for China and home. Certainly China is the place where Mary ought to be, and where I am sure she can do her greatest work, for as you say, there is a large and increasing demand for nursing of the best kind in China, and Mary with her training ought to be able to offer only the best. And so with my deep sympathy for you in your recent losses go also my very best wishes for a truly happy and satisfying New Year. I am delighted to know that you find the work increasingly interesting. The fact that it is hard won’t hurt you a bit in the end. 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 January 5, 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/7a33785c5044c59df57a1f9c2c3fff8c.jpg ca6009d6af8fb24ee79f41f642381d9e 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., March 31, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., March 31, 1931 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 March 31, 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 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Thank you for your good letter of March 28, with the expressed sentiments of which I concur almost without reservation. Just why you haven’t heard more definitely from your father, I cannot understand. I have heard nothing myself for many weeks, and I do wish that I might get a clearer statement of his plans. No wonder Mary hesitates to make definite reservations when she can't be sure whether her first step of the journey is to carry her eastward or westward. I am still hoping to be in New Haven before long, and if so I shall make an extra effort to get together with you both so that we can talk things over frankly. In the meantime, it looks as if we would simply have to keep our patience and wait a bit longer in the hope that some more definite word may come from your father. Ever sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/87bc6a720baeed22b30d87af187f2301.jpg ff58165fcabdc181299a645e9f556323 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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 York City July 1, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New York City July 1, 1929 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 July 1, 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 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Thanks for your good letter, and hearty congratulations on the latest scholarship record reported from Middlebury College. I am immensely pleased and immensely proud of you. What I I like most of all about the whole record is the fact that it has shown steady improvement from the start, and that generally means more in the end than high marks by themselves alone. I hope you will have a most satisfactory and profitable course at Columbia this summer, and that you will enjoy and profit by the renewed contacts with your Chinese friends. Be sure to pick the right kind of friends, though, for it is common knowledge that the Chinese group at Columbia includes all kinds and that some, at least, have been anything but a credit to their country or to the university. I am counting on you and Charlie to stand by the best standards and to hold rigidly to the high ideals which are sadly needed for those who are to return to their native lend to help in the making of the new and more stable China. It is nothing short of a crime the way some of the so-called Chinese students in this country have not only thrown away their opportunities, but have discredited their own nation. The Sun brothers certainly don't belong in that class, and I am sure will never line up with it. So here’s wishing you a great summer and a record of which we shall all be proud! Faithfully yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1d15b8a1f208d43e4b8c910e4d9437fc.jpg df992f01f68318af8ab1ce8d89a3a6ee 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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 York City June 24, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New York City June 24, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 24, 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 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Thank you for your letter advising me of your present whereabouts. May the summer and the work at the summer school be full profit for you. Please give my friendliest greetings to Mary also if she is still with you. Ever sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a7e0e078bfb8c77df1744201479871a3.jpg d3119efdf9b95fcd4d2b36ed99932c55 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 York City, March 28, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New York City, March 28, 1931 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 March 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 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: I have your letter and the elaborate graphs or memoranda or whatever you call than covering your expenditures. The latter are most interesting, but really I haven't quite the time to interpret them. Please just write me frankly, and under a few headings only, where your money has gone. In other words, the main items, of course, are board, room, clothes, etc. My wish is to see just how these balance up. As I sent you five hundred dollars only this last month, I can't for the life of me see why another remittance is required just yet. Last year I sent you five hundred and fifty dollars in December and that lasted until the latter part of March. Of course, if another remittance at this time is going to carry you through the collegiate year, I should Just as soon you would have it now as later. Last year I sent you a remittance in May. I had supposed that that would be about the time that you would require one this year. Please straighten me out on this, for I am at a little loss to understand the whys and wherefores of your present financial stress, if such it be. I am still waiting word from your father, having heard nothing in reply to my letters urging that you be allowed to go home and suggesting that Mary would prefer to give up the European trip. It is too bad your father as that slant on "learned scholars”, although it is a natural Chinese inheritance, of course, and one that is in itself most commendable. My own judgment, however, is that if fewer of the Chinese students who have cane to this country in recent years had returned to their homeland as "learned scholars”, and instead has set out to acquire knowledge and experience needed to help solve the practical problems which confront China today, a good many of the troubles of recent years would have been lessened materially, if not prevented altogether. Anyway, I shall be keenly disappointed if your father does not feel that it is wise for you to come home this summer. Ever yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a35995d12ad67561942f5cf512d284cb.jpg 569173b2a35ddcc8e42c04f08d81c933 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, Tientsin, July 15, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Tientsin, July 15, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Just a note to welcome you home, though you will doubtless be at home some little time before this letter reached you, and to thank you heartily for your fine letter written in San Francisco on July 7 and received by me today. Certainly the spirit in which you have written warms the cockles of my heart and makes me feel that whatever annoyance or trouble I may have had to undergo at times in connection with my American guardianship has, after all, been more than worth while. Personally, I have taken immense satisfaction in your development and progress during these last few years. I have told you this more than once and am glad to repeat it now. That is one of the chief reasons I have been ready to take up the cudgels for you in your desire to return to your native land. I do hope that after you have passed through the readjustment stage, which I know is going to be a hard and trying one for you, you will settle down and give your country the best that is in you. There is a great work to be done by fellows like you who are able and ready to turn their talents and best efforts unreservedly into the kind of work and service that China requires in these difficult times, and I am counting on you to take the lead. With every best wish to you and never-failing good will, believe me 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 July 15, 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/aa6576b9b67f415865ad6cd4c49acb11.jpg 352e699a1499196cbf8fe5b9d397ad47 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, Tientsin, September 18, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Tientsin, September 18, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tommy: Your wonderfully interesting letter of August 19 reached me just in the midst of the opening rush of the new school year. I am not going to try for a minute to answer the letter now as it deserves, for it is just impossible to do so. I do want to tell you, however, that I am delighted at the reaction you have experienced on your return to your native land, and confirming what I have always said to you, I hope with all my heart that you will be able and eager to render a real and lasting service to your country, especially in these days of its great heed, and will find that your American training and experience have not after all been of any real hindrance, but rather a help in the big and appealing work ahead. And so this is just a brief note to let you know that I am thinking of you, tremendously interested in you as always, and hoping and praying that your life may be one of great usefulness to your country and so to the world. Don’t let yourself get into the rut that so many of our returned Chinese students have slumped into through chafing because they have not been able to secure important positions and attained unusual prestige at the very outset of their careers. You will doubtless have a long, hard fight ahead of you, and a man isn’t worth much unless he makes it, and he is worth a lot if he makes it with his head up and his eyes fixed on ultimate victory. Your old football experience at Middlebury ought to help you here, for you learned, as all of us did in our athletic days, that the victory that really left a sweet taste in our mouths was the one attained only after the hardest kind of fighting and the temporary pain of hard knocks. And so all kinds of good luck and every highest success to you. Keep me posted, please, for no one will be more keenly interested in your progress then I, and no one, I think, will be rooting harder for you all the time. 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 18, 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c9653b1aabcf214c947f759374307324.jpg 2b1ef5c6fb517b7bfb8a1b3a2180ae0a 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 Stearns Folder 2207, 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 Tong Kwoh-On, September 20, 1910 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tong Kwoh-On, September 20, 1910 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Alfred E. Stearns to Tong Kwoh-On, Bureau of Educational Mission to U.S.A. States Thomas Lee arrived in Boston. Willing to assume guardianship of Lee. Found quite home for Lee. Deposited check to Sun brothers' account. Finds it difficult to impress the importance of economy on the Suns. Dislikes Chinese students leaning towards extravagance. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. 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, 1910 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 September 20, 1910. Mr. Tong Kwoh-On, Bureau of Educational Mission to U. S. A., Shih Chia Hutung, Peking, China. My dear Mr. Tong: Allow me to thank you for your very kind letter of August 5th just handed me by Mr. Kwan, who yesterday was excused to go to Boston and meet and bring to Andover your nephew, Thomas Lee. Mrs. Hall and I have located the boy in a quiet home where we believe he will be well looked after, and I trust that his record here may bring you only the deepest satisfaction. It will give me great pleasure to assume any responsibilities, financial or otherwise, you may care to place upon me in connection with this young man. Please don’ t feel that any apologies are necessary. It is a privilege to be able to aid these boys in the slightest way and I always regard the opportunity in this light. The draft for $2109.75 I am today depositing to the account of the Sun brothers as requested. The boys already have on hand a very substantial surplus. I still find it difficult to impress upon them the importance of economy. perhaps I am unduly particular in this respect, but I dislike to have these Eastern boys suffer from the extravagant ways of many of our American youth. I am sending you herewith the accounts of the boys’ finances up to the present time. With kindest personal regards, and regretting deeply that we are to be deprived of the pleasure of welcoming you and Mr. Sun to the country and Andover, believe me, Very sincerely yours Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tong Kwoh-On