99 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ee0fc1b39b28c237e30f62edfa6d7f5e.jpg 0f6e0b65718787caa8dbf471682393ca 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 27 Folder 2 Tsai, 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 P.K. Tsai to Dr. Stearns, dated April 13, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Stearns, dated April 13, 1927 Description An account of the resource Handwritten letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns requesting an increased monthly allowance. Provides a list of his monthly expenses. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred P.K. Tsai 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 13, 1927 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Alfred Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e5d7b6bbcfc4d7c7b84c72922e935518.jpg d3d44d69a7c39e5c8bd03031f5d952ef 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 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, December 7, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, December 7, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: I have just been advised by the local bank of the receipt from you of the sum of $5,000, which I am crediting, according to the usual custom, to Arthur, Charles, Thomas, Mary, and Quincey Sheh,-$1,000. to each account. I sent you only several days ago statements covering the expenditures to the middle of November, and I trust that these will reach you safely. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 December 7, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4f9d4b50c3c4a1cd9f7ef3cc3216ee54.jpg d5c2d18fa45c4dbea5ef5dd9e701eec8 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8e32316bb3bc42c5b0de709c7f5df04d.jpg a6252ff09deaaefdab169bb5a410e593 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 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, January 10, 1924 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, January 10, 1924 Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Sun: I have your very interesting and friendly letter of December 4th, and beg to thank you for the sentiments contained therein. The children are all in excellent health, I am glad to say. Arthur was with us for a few hours during the Christmas holidays, but went to New York for a visit at the time that Charles, Tom and Mary went to Washington in response to an invitation from Dr. Sze, your Minister to this country, to visit him at the legation. We celebrated the Christmas holiday itself together at Andover with several other boys as our guests, and then the party broke up for the rest of the vacation period. I am sure that the trip must have been very profitable to the children, though from their own reports I am afraid they did not see quite so ranch of our capitol city as I had hoped they would. The weather was in part to blame. I allowed Charlie to drop Latin at the beginning of the year, for he found the work extremely difficult and the time and effort given to it were apparently undermining his work in other subjects. It is getting to be a question in my mind whether the boy is perhaps a bit over-conscientious in his studies, as he rather unwittingly admitted to me recently that his head seemed to get tired rather easily. I shall watch the situation carefully this term and see that steps are promptly taken to lighten the load if it proves that he is attempting a bit too much. Tom has begun work on the banjo and mandolin, which if successful will give him a chance to play in the school orchestra, something that he is very desirous of doing. If he shows sufficient talent he can of course take up later sane other instrument that is likely to be of more permanent and genuine value. May I take this opportunity to thank you most heartily for your overgenerous Christmas gift. I have been greatly embarrassed by the receipt of anything so elaborate, realizing its value and the fact that it is certainly not deserved. My appreciation, however, of the exceptionally generous and friendly spirit which has prompted the gift is very deep and sincere, and my thanks are from the heart. In this connection may I make a suggestion, which I trust will not give offence, but will be fully understood by you, and that is that any gifts in the future - if there are such - be limited to trifles. After all it is the spirit which accompanies the gift which sets its chief value, and I have been greatly embarrassed for the past two years by two factors in the situation; first, the large duties I have had to pay on gifts of this kind, and which have amounted in toto to much more than what I have been accustomed with my limited means to invest at Christmas time for all the members of my family circle together; and, secondly, a seeming misconception on the part of the children as to the nature and purpose of the gifts in question. I have been greatly distressed on one or two occasions, as has Miss Clemons, to learn that the children have intimated to some of their friends that some of the gifts in question, at least, were of values far in excess of those recorded on the actual inventories, and that some of these , too, were prompted by actual requests or insinuations on our part. As you doubtless know, on one or two occasions and in response to very definite requests on the part of my good friends in China, to the effect that they would be glad at any time to make small purchases for me there should I desire, we have placed orders, so to speak, but with the definite purpose of settling for the amounts involved by crediting the sums in question to Mary’s account. I am sure that the situation has been fully appreciated by you and others in China, but it very evidently has not been by the children, and since it throws us open to even the possibility of misconception on their part, I am very sure that it will be better for all concerned to have the gifts discontinued entirely. As you of course understand, the arrangements at the house have to be made, from necessity on my part, on a business basis, and I have attempted to the very best of my ability to figure the expenses of each of the children on an exact pro rata basis, so that I should neither gain nor lose materially by their presence in the house. For this reason also it would seem best to discontinue the presents in question. I hope most sincerely that you will not take offence at anything I have said above. It is my desire to be perfectly frank with you, just as I would wish you to be with me, and it is with no lessening of appreciation of the generous and friendly spirit which has always characterized your dealings with me that I feel prompted to make the above suggestions. I believe that their adoption would perhaps save us the possibility at least of further embarrassment, something which cannot wholly be avoided in view of the seeming inability of the children themselves to appreciate the situation and the exacting duties imposed by our government here on importations of this kind. I am sending you this week a slight token of my friendship and esteem, which I hope will reach you during the New Year's season and will prove not unwelcome. With friendliest regards and heartiest good wishes for the New Year, believe me, Always sincerely yours , Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 10, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/60c04d9a45070636c3e151fe865e0c43.jpg ec62e152961d6e7411471a8cca5e1289 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/87ea719db95124b1032bebd8e29cdeec.jpg f24c76677af608003c67d4d1f413f209 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 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, September 12, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, September 12, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Your note of June 22nd reached me about the middle of the summer, when I was at my summer home in northern New Hampshire. It should have been acknowledged earlier but the summer found me unusually busy and I thought it best to wait until I returned to my desk at its close. The draft of $5,000.00, referred to you in your letter, was duly received and acknowledged. It has been credited $1,000.00 each to your four children and Quincy Sheh, in accordance with your wishes. The children appear to have had a happy and profitable summer. Arthur has been at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology summer camp. Charlie and Tom have been at my own boys' camp at the Connecticut Lake, and Mary has been a member of my household. Mary, I believe, has had a happier and more satisfactory summer than ever before. She has seemed unusually cheerful and contented and has show at almost all times a good spirit. Arthur is returning to the Institute this month. Quincy Sheh is planning to enter Bowdoin College in Maine, one of the best of our smaller colleges. Tom and Charlie are to continue their work at Phillips Academy and Mary will go forward in the course at Abbot. I hope that this plan commends itself to you as the best one possible for the children, and I shall be ready, as I have always been in the past, to hear and adopt any suggestions for readjustment that you may deem it wise to make. I feel somewhat embarrassed at times by the responsibility which rests upon me to make decisions of this kind almost wholly on my own responsibility. I might add that all of the children are exceptionally well at the present time. With warmest personal regards and best wishes to you and yours, believe me always Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 12, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1d81c597c9c18e77cd2744e3dd345f40.jpg cab8e20e4b828732121020ab109c6788 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e73c403fd5e7b2aebfbf5c59e846aba7.jpg 089596a48b32abc0f5f75642fcf1e741 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 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, April 14, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, April 14, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: I have been a long time acknowledging receipt of your exceptionally interesting and friendly letter of February 20th. The delay has been due to the fact that I have been daily expecting the arrival of the box of Christmas presents referred to in this and earlier letters. Fate seems to have pursued your gifts, for, although due at the Christmas season, they finally put in an appearance at my home about three or four days ago. At the moment I happened to be absent in Chicago, but on my return I joined with the rest of the family in the expressions of the greatest pleasure over the beautiful articles which you have contributed to the furnishings of my study. They are altogether too good for me and, greatly as I shall always value then, and deeply as I shall appreciate the generous and friendly spirit that started them on their long journey, I can only hope that in the future you will not feel under any obligations whatever to send me anything more than the merest trifles, which I am sure will equally well convey your friendly good wishes and good will. I feel so completely unable to make suitable return for a gift of this kind that I can only hope that you will appreciate my feelings and understand my point of view. Mary and Miss Clemons have surely enjoyed the mandarin coats, though I am wondering if there could possibly not have been some mistake in the actual assignment. Mary's coat appears to be much the largest of the three, and the two smaller ones, I am afraid, are a little too small to be used comfortably by Miss Clemons. It occurred to me that perhaps the actual labels might have been changed inadvertently during the inspection at the Custom House. I was not at home when they were unpacked so I cannot be sure that the mistake was not made there. This is a matter of small consequence, however, and will doubtless be straightened out in due season, and to the satisfaction of all. Marjorie is still at school, but will be wildly delighted, I am sure, with your gift to her. If only you could visit us one of these days we should have the longed for opportunity to express, not only to you in person our appreciation and thanks, but to do something, perhaps, to make your visit to us and to America a never to be forgotten one, and in this way to repay you in some small measure for your many generous deeds and thoughts in our behalf. This seems to be about the best that I can hope for, but at least I can dream that the hope may some day be realized. I cannot understand the complications involved in the arrangements for Arthur's Tsing Hua Scholarship. I have kept after Arthur, and so far as I know he has done what the Legation representatives in Washington have asked. I have written to the Educational Mission there and have expressed my regret that no scholarship was awarded last year, and my inability to understand just why this was so. Only this morning I received a letter from Dr. Y.M. Kwai saying that Arthur had not returned the blank which had been sent him for information. I gave this blank to Arthur weeks ago and told him the importance of filling it out and returning it to Washington at once. He assured me that he would do this, and I am inclined to think that he has done so, though perhaps the document was delayed in the mails. This morning I wrote a pretty strong letter to Dr. Kwai; I hope, a perfectly fair one, expressing my inability to comprehend the difficulties which had arisen and which had now, for two years, debarred Arthur from receiving the scholarship, which had apparently been definitely been promised him long ago. Of course, I have written Arthur again today, sent him Dr. Kwai’s letter, and told him that if he has mislaid or for any reason not sent the information asked for to Washington, to do so without another moment's delay. You will be exceedingly pleased, I am sure, to learn that Charles has recently expressed his desire to be baptized and to join the Church. This is no sudden thought on his part, I am sure. Charles is serious minded, and thinks things out for himself. Evidently he has had this on his mind for some time, and has reached his decision only after most careful thought. I can’t begin to tell you, how pleased I am at this decision of his, and in fact, over all of his development since he has been with me. The boy ought to be an increasing source of comfort and delight for you as he is for me. Tom too appears to be developing well. His studies are better this last term. His spirit at the house is fine and I have had little occasion to complain. I do not think, however, that he will ever have quite Charlie’s ability, or that he will match him in many ways. With the boys he is perhaps the more popular of the two, but that is because he has a little keener taste for the fun and student activities of life than for the more serious and lasting things. From this I don’t mean to imply that Charles is not a normal boy when it comes to wholesome activities, or that Tom is over indulgent in these. I am sure you will appreciate what I have in mind. Mary, I must confess, is still something of a problem; doubly so because it becomes increasingly clear that she is not always frank and honest with us. Deeply as I regret to say it, there is a tendency to conceal, and at times actually to deceive, which leaves one with a very uncomfortable feeling, and the belief that efforts invested in her behalf are of questionable value. I shall watch the situation pretty carefully from now on for I do not believe that, in justice to her or to you, it would be wise to consider keeping up indefinitely the American connection for Mary unless there is to be, in the very near future, evidences of a determination and the ability on her part to overcome these weaknesses referred to. You refer in your letter to a remission of $5,000.00 of December last, to be credited to your four children and Quincy Sheh. The money was duly received, credited as requested, and formal acknowledgement of its receipt sent to you at the time. As your last letter bears the date of February 20th, the acknowledgement of the receipt should probably have reached you before the letter was sent. I trust, however, that it has been duly received ere this. Again assuring you of my deep appreciation of your many generous, friendly acts, and, with my kindest personal regards, believe me, Sincerely and gratefully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 14, 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 C.Y. Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1a8265747c8ae4ef095edecf7304d7ad.jpg 0bbb76fa9678f19e1b35dac84c067dc7 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/de07687a34a56ee1f0697f3c24509e55.jpg 521adae5ef678b2f695331c1343f9f91 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3306413eda02d4759616484f437c0d0d.jpg 1522e678c7970744f192ba6bb01a2edd 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 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, April 19, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, April 19, 1922 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Your last letter, bearing date of January 15th, has long remained unanswered; though I know that most of the information called for by it has been transmitted to you through various channels, including my last, but a bit earlier, letter. By this time I trust that Mr. Liang will have returned to Tientsin and given you this latest direct news from the members of your family in America. I am writing this brief letter, therefore, merely to indicate the present situation, though there is nothing especially new to report. Arthur has been spending the past two or three days with us, as he has had a brief vacation celebrating the Easter season; and I like to have him feel that my house is definitely his American home. I have been very pleasantly impressed with what his life and work at the Institute of Technology are doing for him. He seems more mature than formerly and talks very sensibly about life and its various problems. In scholarship he has gained steadily and, on the whole, I believe is developing very well. I find it much easier than formerly to discuss intimately with him the problems of the other members of the family, and this is a great help. As you know, at the present time Mary is living with me and attending Abbot Academy, a local and excellent boarding school, as a day student, while my own daughter is completing her course in the high school. The change from Northfield was made with regret, but it seemed necessary. In my daughter’s case overwork had seriously impaired the girl’s health; and the doctor recommended special diet and care to restore her vitality. Mary might have remained at Northfield, but the principal of the school assured me that the work, even of their lowest class, was really a bit beyond her and that she needed a further year of preparation if she were to go on there successfully. Under the circumstances and in view of this recommendation I deemed it wise to withdraw Mary from the school at the same time that my own daughter left. What to do for the coming year is still the problem. My feeling is that Mary ought to enter, as a regular student, some good girls' boarding school instead of continuing the present arrangement where she is only a day scholar and hence does not have full opportunity to mix with the other girls and enter into all phases of the school life. The problem is to find, in these strange modern days, a school which still maintains the old high standards of scholarship and Christian character building. I am constantly making inquiries among friends in whose judgment I have confidence, but am still at a loss to know just what to do. The reaction from the war have worked their distressing influence on social and moral standards in America, as they evidently have done in other lands. That the pendulum will swing back again in time is my sincere belief. The days through which we are passing cannot fail to make us all anxious. Charles and Thomas are going steadily on in their school work at Phillips Academy. Charles has gained steadily from the start and will undoubtedly secure his regular promotion at the end of the year. Thomas has found the work very difficult, and, as I was disposed to anticipate, will doubtless have to repeat the work of the lowest class next year. Possibly he would have gone ahead a bit faster, though I am inclined to doubt it, if he had gone to some other and lower grade school for this year. He was so anxious to be with his brother, however, that I finally allowed him to make the attempt here; and as his instructors felt that he was gaining much from the experience, even if he were not likely to secure his promotion, I decided to let him stay. Please let me thank you, l and most heartily, for the copy of our photograph. I feel more than ever now as if I knew you and could count you among my good friends. The photograph stands on my desk in my study and has attracted much favorable comment from many of my friends who have seen it. Trusting that you will always feel free to express very frankly to me questions that may arise in your mind in regard to your children or to offer any suggestions that commend themselves to you by which I may be better able to carry out your wishes for them, believe me, with regards and esteem, Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 19, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/35ec7113ccf1c2acb6e15dc2a47c1908.jpg 2e6c05bd8e266af8aacbbd2f1b9b9750 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/195c7c8bb9d0e31f3375d955f3855a4c.jpg 9aaacc29e2aabe0c6fef2d52f188f3c1 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 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, April 16, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, April 16, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Your very kind letter of February 7 reached me sometime ago and should have been answered earlier. I always find it difficult to write to those to whom I have more than the usual amount to say, and hence I have deferred my answer to your letter in the hope that I could find the time to treat it and the other problems as they deserve. As it is I must make the best of the limited time at my disposal and hope for better luck later. In response to your suggestion I am asking for duplicate reports of the work of the three younger children in the public schools. Unlike the reports of Phillips Academy which are sent direct to parents and guardians for preservation if desired, the reports from the public schools are sent for inspection only and must be returned to the school authorities. These reports have regularly come to me, and after inspection and signing have been returned. I am glad to say that they have been uniformly good and that the record has been confirmed in such conversations as I have had from time to time with the teachers, themselves. Just at present I am corresponding with the authorities of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in regard to Arthur's admission next fall. If the Institute will allow him credit on some of the history and language work he has had in China, his present schedule will shape up in a very satisfactory way. I am hopeful that these concessions will be granted. Let me take this opportunity also to thank you for your most generous but wholly unnecessary thought of me and the other members of the family circle in the remembrances which you advised me are being sent to us through your friend, at present, I believe, in Europe. Your generosity is altogether too great, for I can assure you so far as I am concerned it has been only a pleasure, and an increasing one at that, to have these youngsters in my own family circle. The strain, such as it is, comes entirely upon Miss Clemons who has charge of my house and who watches with care the children, themselves, and provides as best she can for their special needs. The generous and friendly cooperation which they, themselves, regularly give makes the task, while strenuous at times, far from disagreeable. Of course there are still some of our American ways which the children find it hard to accept, but it has been our endeavor to insist only upon those things which we are accustomed to regard as essential in this country for well brought up girls and boys alike. I do hope, therefore, that merely because the children are under my roof you will not feel that you are obligated in any way to me for their care and oversight beyond the definite charges which the actual expense involved seem to make necessary. Very deeply as I appreciate your generous thought of me, I should be distressed to believe that this could in any way prompt you to feel yourself under special obligations. On the whole the children have been in the best of health. Mary is just recovering from a cold which while not at all serious prompted Miss Clemons to hold her in bed for a couple of days as a precaution merely. Charles had a week's setback in the form of pink eye or conjunctivitis which did not seem to yield readily to treatment. To make sure that he was being handles in the best way, I sent him to an excellent oculist in a neighboring city where by the aid of special instruments it was discovered that the trouble had arisen from the presence of a slight piece of foreign matter in the boy's eyeball and directly over the pupil. This was removed and fortunately no ill consequences resulted. The oculist feared a possible infection because of the presence of the conjunctivitis and the consequent inflamed condition of the eye, and it was a great relief to us all when the period of danger passed without serious results. While he was in this condition, Charles remained at the school infirmary, both because of the care he could receive there and also to avoid the possibility of contagion for the rest of the family. Arthur continues to work hard, but finds some of this studies, notably the languages, very difficult. His instructor in Mechanical Drawing, on the other hand, reports that his work in that subject entitles him to rank among the very best boys in the class. I am constantly urging Arthur, as you have requested, to meet all of the school requirements promptly [illegible] no disposition to neglect his school obligations. Again assuring you of my very deep and genuine appreciation of your thoughtfulness and with personal regards, believe me, Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 16, 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/003a68efd8674fdd8e34854141a13e7d.jpg 34c746b894e88d5939dda6540c72ac5c https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/71e0bb45b72c607363e5eede71f2f5e4.jpg 0b7969c3c0c14f39a76e01bc36c39566 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 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, February 22, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, February 22, 1922 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Your letter of January 29th has just reached me, and I note that the $5000. recently transferred to me by cable, and the receipt of which was duly acknowledged, is to be distributed between your four children and Quincy Sheh - $1000. for each account. I am accordingly making the distribution as requested. I mailed you several weeks ago complete statements of receipts and expenditures for each of the boys and Mary up to December last. These, I trust, will have reached you safely by this time and from them you will be able to form a pretty good idea of the amounts necessary to meet the school and other expenses of the children while they are in Americas We are hoping, of course, that prices will drop in the near future. There have been changes in recent months, but unfortunately not all have been in the downward direction, though in the matter of clothes it seems possible to meet the needs of the children at a smaller expense than formerly. Arthur's funds are still in my hands, and he is accustomed to apply to me each month for the amount seemingly necessary to meet his college and living expenses. He furnishes me a detailed statement showing just how the money has been used. So far as I can judge, he is disposed to be very careful in handling this money and has given me no cause for anxiety on this score. He tells me that he has now found a good home. His first room did not prove in every way satisfactory, and I agreed with him that a change was desirable. Of course it is very difficult in a city like Cambridge, with the tremendous demand resulting from the presence of two such large institutions as Harvard and the Institute of Technology, to find the ideal home in which to live during the college course from what Arthur tells me, however, I have reason to think that he is happy in his present quarters. I have encouraged him to come out to Andover whenever he could and pass the week-ends with me and the rest of the family. I am glad to hear that Mr. and Mrs. Chen have safely reached their home country. It was a real delight to meet them here. I only wish we could have seen a bit more of them. We have been experiencing a pretty wide-spread attack of influenza in this part of the country during recent weeks. The epidemic appeared in the school a few weeks ago and for several days we had a pretty strenuous time. Fortunately the cases were extremely light - very different from the disease of 1918; and the boys, after a several days' lay-off, were able to resume their duties in normal health. Quincy just at present is at the infirmary with a sore throat, but the doctor thinks he will be out within the next two days. Thomas also joined the group there for two or three days, but returned to us with his old-time health and vigor and has suffered no ill effects from the experience. The rest of the group have fortunately escaped thus far. With warmest personal regards, believe me Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bab156418b0e9446633a20a514f16048.jpg 65945badf2f5b20ed45a9a4e7e9654be 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 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, January 18, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, January 18, 1922 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: The busy days that have followed the Christmas season have delayed me in sending this long overdue word of deep appreciation of and very sincere gratitude for your most generous and valuable Christmas gift. Everything that comes from China has a special value in my eyes. When it carries with it the evidence of friendly goodwill on the part of the sender, its value proportionately increases; and just because you have always been so kind and considerate in your attitude towards me, I shall value more than I can ever express that beautiful piece of ivory which now adorns my parlor table and calls forth enthusiastic comments from all who view it. I only hope that you will not feel that there is, or can be, the slightest compulsion to express in material ways of this kind such appreciation as you may feel for what little I have tried to do for your children. It has been a pleasure, I can assure you, and the business arrangement, which had of necessity to be made, has been based on the actual income and outgo involved, so far as this can be estimated. I only hope that I have been able to help you carry out your wishes for your children and to realize the high hopes and ambitions you entertain for them. I expect to send you with a few days statements cover the expenses of all four of your children and their friends, Messrs. Sheh and Lin. I have practically completed this up to the first of December, last. The task has been something of a time consumer, and I have not felt like putting it upon my overworked office force, so that it had to be done at such odd moments as I could find for it from time to time. I have also all of the receipts involved in these various transactions. These I shall be glad to send to you if you desire, or if you prefer, I can turn them over to Arthur or the other boys. I shall write you in a few days, giving the latest reports of the children. At present all are in the best of health and seemingly happy in their work; though Arthur writes me that he finds the work at the Institute of Technology increasingly hard, and Thomas is seemingly a bit unprepared for successful progress in the latest class of this school. I expect to give Tom a little outside tutoring through the balance of the year, which will, I hope, enable him to get a better start. With warmest personal regards and renewed thanks for your generous contributions to the various members of my family, and with heartiest New Year's greetings, believe me, Sincerely and gratefully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 18, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a51cd8d68965950bdd83473fb539fa24.jpg ed5f81e989d823c4f0c7cb3d67b61e3a https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/10666ad5a6e0eee0fe9e696ae970682e.jpg feea9c2940119c59a89156d9083a1fe5 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d28b3ae086fdcc3ea1be7298271582f3.jpg 5371275c79802904b0f1ec7b145c7b3a 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 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, January 19, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, January 19, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Let me thank you for your very friendly and interesting letter of November 28. I have delayed answering it in the expectation that the gifts mentioned by you might put in an appearance and so provide me the opportunity to express my appreciation after I had actually seen the articles in question. We are still hoping the missing presents will appear in due season, and the children in the meantime have been wonderfully patient in bearing their disappointment. Only yesterday I journeyed to Boston to sign the required papers at the Custom House in connection with the shipment of candies and fruits sent by Mr. Sheh many, many weeks ago. Those have only just arrived in Boston and will probably not reach their destination for another week or two, especially as our freight service is terribly upset just at present because of the excessively heavy snows and the necessity of giving preference to coal shipments over all other forms of freight. Even if the gifts have not appeared, I can assure you how very deeply I appreciate your generous and friendly thought in sending them. They will be welcome indeed and they will always carry a unique value in my eyes in view of the sources from which they come and the spirit back of the gifts which started them on their long journey across half the world. You will hear from me later and more fully when they appear. As to the children: They continue to be very satisfactory in nearly every way. Arthur appears to be mastering his work at the Institute, and the reports which I got are good. Lin is finding his task at the same institution very difficult. I think he pressed his desire for early admission a bit too far and would have done better to take another year in preparation. He is very hopeful, however, that he will get better reports this current term as he becomes more familiar with the work. Thomas has found his Latin just a bit out of his reach. As he seemed to be making little, if any, progress in it and as his other work was suffering in consequence, I deemed it wise to allow him to drop the subject and take on some extra work in English and French. With this schedule I believe he will give us a good return. He has not Charlie’s alertness or ability to concentrate on the work at hand, though he evidently works with good spirit and pretty steadily. Charles is, in my judgment, a rare boy and ought to go far. He has ability, he has poise, and he has a purpose. At the same time he enjoys thoroughly the outside activities of the school life and indulges in them to just the proper extent, fitting them into his general scheme of things and making them aids to, rather than the reverse, his intellectual achievement. Altogether he is most satisfactory and his development has been pleasing to us all. I say this with no disparagement to Tom, who is a year younger and not to be expected yet to have reached quite the point of development attained by Charlie. Mary is still something of a problem. In most ways she is a very delightful member of the household. Her school work, too, has been of a steadily high character. Her teachers all speak well of her, and to me personally she has been as responsive and friendly as one could ask. Miss Clemons who necessarily handles Mary's more intimate problems does not find her task always an easy one, for Mary seems at times to resent the suggestions and advice offered. I suppose this is in part due to the difficulty she finds in adapting herself to American ways and customs. One of the things I have been most concerned about is that she should have a proper amount of fresh air in her room and exercise out of doors. Neither of these requirements is congenial to her and she will always find what seems, to her, at least, a good excuse to offer in order to avoid them. I am more than ever inclined to think that it may seem wise next year to send her away to a boarding school where she would have to accept the definite routine provided for all the school; though I must admit I don't like the idea of changing schools so much and I am not quite sure yet that the chances offered her as a boarding pupil at the present school are the best that can be found for her particular needs. Excuse this somewhat rambling letter, but it is difficult to put on paper just what I have in mind. I only wish that we could talk the whole situation over face to face. With warmest personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 19, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns