92 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0013c6b4bdc8b3c7359e5ee798e99878.jpg b16786a7a798b35b958b239cc36b4d98 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ff611537871abfcc22a0b84ffc9dc426.jpg 76151b635d1a9c7919fb5981c44c3db5 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2b716df2d4f6daeb419c9800bd9b386e.jpg 8049dc4f46c4ea95ccd929e45ee95464 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, September 13, 1924 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, September 13, 1924 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 13, 1924 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 13 September 1924 Mr. Tsai Shoukie 81 Council Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Tsai; Your letter of July 5th reached me a short time ago and I can not refrain from expressing my appreciation for the friendly and generous sentiments you have expressed therein. It has been a privilege and in the main a pleasure, to do what I could for your boys during their American careers and while in K. F.’s case I have been disposed to feel discouraged at times and have reason to believe that I have not fully won the boy’s confidence and good will I am grateful for the opportunity that I have had to serve them and you. Some day I hope that Kuo Fang himself will realize that even though I seemed at the time a bit hard on him I had nothing in view but his best interests. You will realize too I have no doubt that it would have been a much easier and pleasanter thing for me for the time being to do and say the things which pleased him that the fact that I did not would seem pretty clearly to indicate that I care more for his future success than for his present smile. Don’t let me give you the impression that Kuo Fang has been lacking in cooperation and good spirit. Far from it. He has almost always been more than respectful in his general attitude towards me, but I have found it always impossible to curb his financial expenditures and I am confident that he has not always felt happy over the criticisms that I have offered and the recommendations that I have made.  Since your letter arrived I received notice from the bank of the receipt of $2,000 from you to be used, I assume of course, in Kuo Fang’s behalf. As I had understood from K. T. that the boy was to give up the American connection and return home to the near future, and as he was at that time staying with his older brother out in New York state, I took the liberty of sending K. T. a check amounting, as J recall it at this moment, to three or four hundred dollars, and which represented the balance of K.F.’s account in my hands. The boys both left the New York place soon after I happen to know, and I have had no word yet acknowledging receipt of the check in question. Neither have I had from K. F. a request for further funds, something a bit out of the ordinary. In the meantime I have deposited the $2,000 to the boy's account in our local bank and will hold it there until I receive further word as to its final disposition. I have had a very bitter disappointment this summer in my failure to connect with our good old friend, C. L. Chow who has recently been in America and even in Andover. Then I heard that he was in the country I wrote him suggesting a possible visit to my camp in northern New Hampshire, but I imagine that he felt that this would be attempting too much.At any rate the next news I had of him was in the form of letters, from him and from some of my Andover friends telling of his visit to Andover and to the haunts of his school boy days. I don't know anyone whom I would have been gladder to welcome to Andover and my own home and it hurts badly to know that Mr. Chow is already on his way back to his own land and that I did not even have a glimpse of him while he was here. His warm and friendly kindness to me during my visit to China some twelve years ago was unique and has never been forgotten. With warmest personal regard, believe me always Very sincerely yours AXS/S Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/81fb2c6d6232eb0d7407c04dcadf1334.jpg 7db4adc0286ea38abff225f4e4985c95 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, September 29, 1924 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, September 29, 1924 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 29, 1924 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 Description An account of the resource 29 September 1924. Mr. Tsai Chou Kie, 82 Council Road, Tientsin China. My dear Tsai: Let me acknowledge receipt of your letter of August 29th. The $2,000 referred to was received during the latter part of August, just before I returned from my summer home in northern New Hampshire, and was at once deposited to Kuo Fang's account. I have held it there waiting further instructions from you or from him. or from K.T. Your letter so far is the only intimation I have received as to the disposition to be made of the money in question. As I think I wrote you some time ago, J turned over to K.T. the balance which I was carrying on K. F’s account, in the belief that K. T. was to handle his brother's affairs during the remainder of the American sojourn unless it was eventually decided to allow K.F. to continue his education in this country. I have heard nothing from either of the boys since midsummer; when they were in the Catskill mountains, but I have no doubt that they will advice me shortly where they are, what their plans are and what disposition therefore shall be made of the funds you have recently placed in my hands. If it is decided that K.F is to remain in the states and continue his education, I shall of course be very glad to continue to act as his guardian so far as conditions permit, although I am afraid I have not been a very helpful or inspiring guardian in this particular case. With warmest personal regards and kindest remembrances to the various members of your family circle, believe me Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/360fc959df7ff44937a5f3d7e35f3bae.jpg 10f811c424e5bfc2b752a71ff4b92130 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, April 17, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, April 17, 1923 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 17, 1923 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 April 17, 1922 Mr. Tsai, Shou Kie 35 Race Course Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Tsai: Thank you for you nice letter of March 22. The letter which I have more recently mailed you will have arrived no doubt before this, and hence it will not be necessary for me to repeat what I have already said in that communication. Kuo Fang at present is studying at the Steams School at Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. He is evidently working with good spirit and in the hope of gaining admission to one of our good but smaller England colleges this coming fall. Amherst, I believe, is his present objective. The goal is a worthy one and the plan has my full approval, whether or no you finally decide to permit him to pursue the college course in America. I hope you will approve. Again my sincere and kindest regards to yourself and the various members of your family circle. Faithfully yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7a01a647e28538bc8c3e5fbb9b955f29.jpg 026ad3df927a37079df94978ee1d078c 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, February 22, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, February 22, 1922 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 22, 1922 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 22 February, 1922. Mr. Tsai Shou-kie 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China. Dear Mr. Tsai: Let me acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 25th enclosing draft for for $650. to be credited to the account of Kuo-fang, and to be used primarily for meeting the extra expenses incurred by the boy’s recent illness. I will see that the accounts are settled at once. Some of them have already been paid, as the boy has a fair balance on hand at the present time. Please thank the boys for their expressions of good will and accept for them and for yourself my warmest personal regards and best wishes for the days ahead. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/120c65da0ee2addbc00e33c8416a3502.jpg 81c1ca0e0004a32ef86e204bfdaf75a5 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/440d32f94b2b1aa6ac02705ad6ad923c.jpg dde7f63eb1b836540dc7405a0d6beda8 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, March 18, 1920 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, March 18, 1920 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 18, 1920 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 18 March, 1920 Mr. Tsai Shou Kie 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China. My dear Mr. Tsai : Let me acknowledge receipt of your kind and interesting letter of February 6th and the draft for $1,660.00 to be credited to the account of your son Kuo Fong. I am enclosing herewith a statement of the boy’s account to date together with the receipts for the various bills that have been paid. As you can well imagine, it has been impossible for me to keep the boy’s expenses down within the limits which obtained in the cases of his two older brothers. The cost of everything in this country has jumped so tremendously since the war that every outlay involves an increase of from fifty to a hundred per cent. We have struggled to keep our own school expenses down to the lowest possible limit, and with that end in view have only recently finished a campaign for a million and a half dollars, a campaign which I am glad to say has resulted most successfully. So far as I can Judge, Kuo Fong has not displayed any tendencies to extravagance. He seems to appreciate the situation, and to all appearance is not spending any more money proportionately than his older brothers. It seems to me only fair under the circumstances to increase his monthly allowance for incidentals a bit; for fifteen dollars a month has no greater purchasing power than did the ten dollars allowed his brothers. I hope that you will approve of this action on my part. For the sake of us all I most certainly that prices will ere long begin to drop a bit; for it has been a hard pull these past two or three years, especially for the professional man. Thank you so much for telling me what the boys are doing in China. It is good to hear of them once more; and I certainly hope that they are fulfilling all your ambitions for them and proving that the American education and experience were of some real and lasting value. Certainly we have never had in our school three finer boys than these boys of yours. Kuo Fong is immensely popular with boys and teachers alike, and it is a real delight to have him here. In his work, too, he seems to be taking hold with good spirit and making definite progress. I shall never forget the good times my friends gave me in China a few years back and the unbounded friendliness and good will which characterized their attentions to me at that time. It is one of the brightest spots in my memory to-day, and if I long enough and can find the time and money to do it, I hope to get one more glimpse of your interesting country and some of my good friends out there before I die. In my judgment the stricken world to-day can loam much from China and Chinese ideals. With kindest regards to the various members of your family and to any of my good friends out there who have not forgotten me, believe me always Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8c6a9bdfb628a6bec98ffe8e7e2e4dc1.jpg 9e7ea87717ccb5a1da8a120798b3b866 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/961d0dcae5c2a39406f439ffa28eaabc.jpg 153a8181278e25c29b69cef32794db03 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bdf6d0888ff4019c845a1c9f63498239.jpg 747dddb82e238bd82e2f30ed346048ff 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, March 27, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, March 27, 1923 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 27, 1923 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 March 27, 1923 Mr. S. K. Tsai 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Tsai: Some time has passed since I last wrote you, and I am writing now to bring the report up to date. Kuo Fong, himself, has doubtless told you the readjustments which have recently been made in his life and work here. As I told you in the last letter, it seemed clear to all of us that the boy was not making sufficient progress in his work at Phillips Academy to justify a continuance of the school connection. Under the circumstances, therefore, the faculty decided that he could give up the Andover connection and advised a smaller school up to such a time as you should either approve of the arrangement or decide on something entirely different. On this basis I arranged for the boy to go to Mont Vernon which was his own choice and where he felt that ho would be able to accomplish most because of familiarity with the conditions there and the friendships already formed. He is at work there at present and writes me so that he has some hope of being able to enter Amherst or one of the smaller colleges this fall. This ambition ought to prove a stimulus to him, and I have, therefore, encouraged him to make his goal. I have never been able to determine satisfactorily whether the boy’s inability to get better results was due to poor health, lack of interest, or limited mental capacity. Outside of his books he has never shown any lack of mental ability; so that I have always felt that the real difficulty lay somewhere else. In order to be perfectly fair to the boy I finally decided that it was wise to have him very carefully examined competent medical experts, and this was done. Dr.Pratt, the diagnostician to whom I sent him, is a personal friend of nine and probably the leading man in his line certainly in Boston, if not in the country. The exhaustive report which he made to me, including his own letter. I an enclosing herewith. While not versed in medical language itself, it seems to me clear that the trouble is largely nervous and, to a considerable extent at least, capable of control by the boy himself. This I have endeavored to the best of my ability to impress on Kuo Fong, and he has promised me to work hard to force himself to believe that he is physically stronger than he has been inclined to think in the pact. I think that he is a good bit relieved himself to find that the examination had disclosed no physical conditions to justify anxiety. If this is so, he will have made a long step towards control and an attitude of mind which should help distinctly in general physical improvement. On this basis his scholarship, too. should gain. You have asked me not to bother to send you detailed statements of the boy’s accounts, but as I have them all in the cash book I have used for the various boys in my charge, I shall be glad to submit them at any time you desire; indeed I should feel a bit more comfortable myself to do so. Just at present the account has been overdrawn by $393.30. I believe that the boy himself has informed you of the situation; so that I am not worrying at all about it. His tuition has been paid at the new school until the close of the year, and of course he has not been charged for the final payment here. I have also allowed him $50 for spring vacation expenses. Please remember me most warmly to the boys and any other of my old friends who may still happen to be with you or in your general vicinity. I have been following as best I could through the incomplete reports that come to us in our American papers developments in China in recent months. What a wonderful thing it will be for China and the world when a stable and absolutely honest and responsible government is once established. Believe me with kindest personal regards Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9a4b6c170d3e1292f72e40219a6891ea.jpg 01e56b8c66a463d6d6d9cf549cb41ad3 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, May 21, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, May 21, 1923 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 May 21, 1923 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 May 21, 1923. Mr. Tsai, Shou Kie, 35 Race Course Road, Tientsin, China. My dear Mr. Tsai: Let me acknowledge the receipt of your letter of April 23rd, and the accompanying check for -500.00, to be credited to Kuo Fang’s account. The boy has overdrawn his present account pretty heavily, as the enclosed statement shows, and I am holding back for later payment several additional bills, including one for over $400.00 covering the final term’s expenses at the Mont Vernon school., I asked Kuo Fang to advise you of this situation, as I have not found it easy to get the time required to draw off a copy of the boy’s account as it appears on my books, to send to you. Probably he has done so by this time. His doctors’ bills last year, coupled with the infirmary and nurses charges, brought it to pass that his expenditures reached abnormal heights. Such a situation, I trust, will not occur again, though as I have already intimated, Kuo Fang has a way of purchasing goods that always seem to cost a little more than those secured by his fellow countrymen with us. It is my impression that the boy will perhaps do best in a small college, and I have already written you to this effect. He himself favors this plan, indeed, is quite enthusiastic about it. We have talked of Bowdoin or Amherst, both of them colleges of high standard at the present time. Even if he takes a business course latter I should be disposed to try out this plan, for the good business schools are connected with our largest universities, and I am convinced that, for a year or two, at least, the complete freedom and distractions of university life would not re-act favorably on the boy. The smaller business schools are generally of an inferior standard. I had a delightful visit a few days ago from your old friend, Mr. Wickham. We talked over the boy’s case very freely and fully, and are both agreed that the youngster has been passing through a somewhat unsettled stage, due in large measure to ill health, and that he ought to gain momentum in his work and development from now on. The latest reports from my brother at Mont Vernon indicate that this is so. He tells me that the boy has shown excellent spirit, and he hopes he may be able to gain admission to college this coming fall. Some very hard work will be required to bring this to pass, but apparently Kuo Fang is interested in accomplishing this at the present time and if this interest holds the goal may yet be attained. Of course, I am delighted at the prospect, though I confess that not many months ago I felt very dubious about the whole situation and, as you know, was inclined to recommend that Kuo Fang give up the American education. I know the boy was not induced to increase his respect for me because of my attitude, but I am rather inclined to think that, even if this was so, the position I took has helped somewhat to impress upon the youngster the importance of getting down to some good hard and steady work. If the results have proved worth while, therefore, I am willing to accept my medicine in the loss of favor on the boy’s part, even though I deeply regret that I have occasioned him any change of feeling towards me. Mr. Wickham told me about his wonderful visit with you, and the enthusiasm he displayed when relating the various incidents attending his visit was a delight to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/003c7719b085796e78eda28d65c5d8ec.jpg bf979b53f9d8056f354e8dbefb4ad39c 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, October 13, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, October 13, 1921 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 October 13, 1921 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource October 18, 1921 Mr.Tsai Shou Kie 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Tsai: You will be perhaps a bit surprised and a good bit interested, I am sure, to learn that Kuo Feng has just passed through the ordeal of an operation for appendicitis. The operation appears, I am glad to say, to have been wholly successful and the condition of the appendix removed was found to be such as to indicate clearly that the boy would doubles have faced serious complications from it in the near future if the matter had not been taken in hand at this time. Dr.Balch, the specialist who performed the operation, is one of the leading surgeons in Boston, and indeed in this country, and the one upon whom we regularly call I emergencies of this kind. The youngster has not been feeling quite himself for a number of weeks; indeed once or twice last year he had several semi-attacks which undermined his strength and robbed him of some of usual vitality. It seems clear now that all of those troubles were undoubtedly the result of the troublesome appendix which has now been removed. I am sure that the boy will find himself in far better condition from now on than he was before the operation was performed. Of course just at present he is suffering with natural after-effects of an operation of this kid and for a day or two yet will doubtless be a bit uncomfortable. I have just come from the infirmary and find that he is feeling much more comfortable and happy this morning than was the case yesterday. The operation itself was performed two days ago. I shall, of course, advise you promptly if anything unfavorable in the situation should develop, though the doctor feels confident that there is no ground for apprehension on this score. I trust that you will approve of all that has been done. We have acted as we would have done in the case of any one of our boys similarly afflicted and in your absence the formal authority for the operation was granted by me. I received a letter from Dr. Ferguson yesterday who tells me that there is some slight chance that I may have the privilege of seeing in this country again in the not distant future our mutual friend, Mr. L.T.Liang. Why can’t you join him, if the trip is decided upon? In view of the family connection, it does seem as if you were entitled to another glimpse of America with the consequent opportunity to renew old friendships and establish new ones. I can assure you that a hearty welcome will await you. Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/83379fd4e8029b4b258d052ef17c6db2.jpg 85318b745036624815ebeb110f9e917f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ca169875cf4456036d495ab8af610c6d.jpg 2e57b5441f682076ebf9a7c770d72dc2 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, October 4, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, October 4, 1923 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 October 4, 1923 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 October 4, 1923 Mr. Tsai, Shou Kie 81 Council Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Tsai: Thank you for your letter of August 29, just received. The two thousand dollars gold referred to was duly received by me from the International Banking Corporation in New York. There was no intimation, however, as to the name of the sender, and, as several of my Chinese wards reside in Tientsin, I did not feel absolutely sure that the money came from you until your letter arrived. But I assumed as much at the start and, on the strength of this assumption, credited the sum to Kuo Fang’s account and paid up a few bills that had been for some tine overdue. I wrote to the New York office of the Bank but found that they were seemingly as much in the dark as I as to the sender. They offered to cable, but I advised them that this would probably be unnecessary. Kuo Fang is back with us once more and for the final year. He tried to gain admission to Amherst College this fall but failed by a small margin, his work in English being the chief obstacle. I talked with the Dean over the telephone and, as he agreed with the opinion expressed by my brother and those who had worked with the boy in camp during the summer that another year of preparation was really needed, I have consented to this arrangement and have urged Kuo Fang to do his best to round out his course at Andover this year in a way that will do him credit and that will bring him increasing satisfaction in the years to come.  I am interested in the latest news of the other boys. Give them my warmest regards, please. If Kuo Tsao comes to America, as suggested, tell him that I shall certainly count on seeing him. Assure him, too, that the latch string is always out for him at my home. By the way, can you possibly give me a little light on a puzzling problem? Last spring, or to be exact about the first of June, I received from one of our boys the enclosed clipping from a newspaper. In spite of the somewhat different name, I decided that this must be our old and mutual friend, C. L. Chow, who was so good to me when I was in China some ten years ago and whose boy I had labored over, unsuccessfully I regret to say, when he had been placed in my charge a year or two after that. Not knowing the American address of the visitor, I telegraphed to him in care of the Chinese Legation in Washington, wrote him again at that address, and did my best to get in touch with him. I offered as an extra inducement a special trip to Exeter to see the annual baseball game. This was in June and except for this newspaper clipping I have never heard a word to indicate that Chow was in this country. I am wondering whether the whole story is a myth, though it doesn't sound quite like that. If Jr. Chow did come to America, I should be disappointed indeed if he left without giving me a chance to see him and to try to repay some of the courtesies extended by him to me in China and which to this day stand out as the pleasantest memories of my whole trip. Ever sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f83796439be61efc3ab08472858a09a5.jpg 823e2e6070482a88ade42dbb3433b4c2 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/54fc657961ed022ce3aa4ffab712c1b8.jpg 2c1deb73179afa42ca7dc683bfaaf36a 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, September 26, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, September 26, 1922 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 26, 1922 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 26 September, 1922 Mr. Tsai Shou Kie 35 Race Course Road Tientsin, China. My dear Mr. Tsai: Your friendly and welcome letter of August 24th has just reached me, and I am depositing check for $1,600 enclosed to Kuo Fang's account for his school and other expenses. I have not yet settled some of his doctor's and infirmary bills brought ever from last term and due to his various illnesses last year nor the expenses of his summer camp. Those are fairly heavy items, but I feel sure that the balance will carry the boy some distance into the current school year. Try as I may, it seems next to impossible to keep Kuo Fang’s expenses down to the limit of those reached by the other Chinese boys under my cars. The extra expenses occasional by his several illnesses last year could not, of course, be avoided. The boy himself, however, has a way of always exceeding a little the amount which I believe he ought to spend; and it is because of this tendency that I have been very much worried, about him and have been led to wonder whether he was profiting to the extent he should profit by the American education and the American connection. The boy is a most attractive and likeable fellow, and I hate to believe that he is going to disappoint you or me in his conduct or later career. His attitude towards me has always been one of unbounded courtesy and friendliness; but the bills come in despite that fact and do not seem to grow less in size in spite of my constant admonitions. His school work, too, has not been of so high an order as to inspire confidence, while his well-known social proclivities and his general popularity among his mates prompt at times a bit of apprehension on my part. I have told Kuo Fang that he should watch his record with school with more than usual interest and care this year in the hope that I should have reason to feel confidence for the future when the complete record should have been considered at the end of the year, but with some misgivings as to the recommendation I would deem advisable to make to you on the basis of the data before me. I am only interested, of course, to assure myself that the boy is accomplishing by the American connection what you desire and attaining those objects in the development of character and broadening of mind for which you are making such genuine sacrifices. I hope that such apprehensions as I have had in the past may be wholly dispelled before the year is out and that I may be able to report more confidently my expectations for the future. Please remember me warmly to Kuo Pao and Kuo Tsao and tell the former that I am sorry that the girl is not boy, so that we could look forward to continuance of the family connection at Andover for years to come. What an Andover colony you have in your home! And how I should love to drop in and have a jolly old-fashioned meeting with them all once more. Your report of Tommy Lee is especially interesting; for I very much feared during the last year of Tommy’s stay in America that he had become so Americanized in some of the superficial ways that he would find it very difficult to adjust himself to the home conditions when he returned. We have had few boys here in recent years who were more universally like or who justly earned more popularity among their mates. These very qualities, however, made some of us a bit apprehensive as to the final effect and outcome. I rejoice to know your letter that the boy is apparently doing so well and has won the confidence of you and his many other friends. Give him my kindest regards, please, and heartiest good wishes for the days ahead. Again assuring you of my personal regard and esteem, believe me always Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie