4 10 261 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0675831f3b4bebf7aedf88bc9e94ef99.jpg 4275e008bc6193fc15d463c0c3fb4165 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/205632ec5c5196286b178845c8d9fc06.jpg 8e9cd633cecdea3e70a8db03f87aa82c 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 1923-1926 Folder 1, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass. May 24, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass. May 24, 1926 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 24, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource May 24, 1926 Miss Mary Sun The Whittier School Merrimac,Mass Dear Mary: Thank you for your note. By all means make Mamie Sze a white flannel coat, if she wants it and you can spare the time to do it. I do not think you ought to attempt anything outside of your school work until the current term is over anyway. If you want to work it in later, well and good. The best way, I think, would be for you to order the flannel from Boston and have the bill sent to me. Mrs. Russell will be glad to guide you in the matter. I am sure. I don't quite know what to say about your summer. June 3rd is a very early date to get through school, and, as you know, that will be the busiest time of the year here, for our own commencement will be only two weeks ahead. I am inclined to think that it would be well for you to go on at once to Elmira, if we find the right place, and get started on your work out there. Possibly, too, Mrs. Russell would be willing to keep you two or three weeks longer at Merrimac. Anyway, we can settle this a bit later. I am sending you in advance the allowance for June so that you will have something to cover the incidentals to which you refer. Please find out from Mrs. Russell what you ought to give the servants in tips, for there is a wide difference of opinion in natters of this kind and it is foolish for you to overdo the thing, though perfectly proper that you should do what is right Ever sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/77645bce746ea10b475a5779b712af30.jpg 4faca0976fa9f3c85762ca546a547526 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 1923-1926 Folder 1, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass. May 27, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass. May 27, 1926 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 27, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource May 27, 1926 Mrs. William C. Russell Whittier School Merrimac, Mass. My dear Mary: Thank you for your frank letter received this morning. I have no desire to force you to go with the Russells to their sunnier place, but would much prefer to have you go on to Elmira and get settled for the summer. Mr. Sze and his friends out there are working on this problem and hope to advise me soon of a suitable place for your turner residence and work. I am glad that this is what you also prefer to do. Just when does Arthur’s commencement come? If we can fit that into the program properly, it will, of course, be done. I hope the check has reached you by this time. I failed to get it into the first letter but sent it to you the next day, if I recall. Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7e36b38ad0b8e747466c4e0b4495119a.jpg 9c2670bdde7db3c3b42b67452f43ff44 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/28df76c9134d26ef3c32f0edd8db9f5a.jpg ebd5c88592ab315dcaf60dbace1a1d0b https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8a557cb8f0a3c877cd8cc71c78c9d576.jpg 53944bb1adbc3b64f1480e89d6a552ad 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/. 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Title A name given to the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass., to Mr. Stearns May 25, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass., to Mr. Stearns May 25, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 25, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/530a4e0f464c9a12c796ff27ef85d5c8.jpg b27092415986182b4ce97b5e5c59a146 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0fc83af54b7e2bcb5c0e357d5daa62b1.jpg 266d029bff7f5e7b141a1849c1e5558f 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 1923-1926 Folder 1, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass. June 7, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass. June 7, 1926 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 7, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource June 7, 1926 Miss Mary Sun Sea Pines School Brewster, Mass. My dear Mary Thanks for your note received this morning. Of course I know only too veil that you are bound to be a bit lonesome at the start with new surroundings, new faces, and new contacts. All of us have to through that. What I do feel is that, with such surroundings and facilities as you have there at Sea Pines, you ought in a short time to be happier than in any other piece I can think of. Anyway, don’t pass judgment too soon, for we must plan something for the summer and the summer work, and I don’t know where we could do better than at Sea Pines. The Elmira authorities have written me that they will give you almost enough credits on your work to date to assure your admission to the college in the fall. They will require you, however, to do some more Algebra during the summer and strongly advise further work in English and possibly one or two more subjects. Algebra first and English second, however, seem to be the prime requisites. By all means get the blanket if that is necessary, though, unless you are to be there during the summer, it would seem to be rather heavy expense for a month only and it is just possible that Miss Bickford may be able to arrange for you to rent for the time being certain bedding you require. Ask her direct what you ought to do, and tell her that I will gladly meet the expense of the blanket if she says it is the proper thing to do and will kindly order one for you at once. Of course the same thing applies to the jacket. Ask Miss Bickford to authorise in writing, so that I can have the record of the purchase of those articles, and then I will, of course, pay for them. I have just this morning received a note from the secretary of Boston Tech, telling me that Arthur will not secure his degree this year. I haven’t heard this from Arthur yet, as he told me only last week that he still hoped that he would graduate. This is altogether too bad, and I hardly know what to think or do about it and I am afraid your father will be bitterly disappointed. No doubt Arthur will come out here soon to talk matters over with me. If so, I am going to suggest that he run down to Brewster and have a little visit with you there, since the Technology graduation is not to be. I am signing and returning the correspondence list, as requested, though I must warn you again not to spend too much time in writing letters to your friends. I mean by that that you must not allow correspondence of this kind to interfere with your regular work. By all means keep in touch with your good friends, but don’t feel that you have got to write them every two or three days. Very few people do that even to the best friends they have in the world, and if they are good friends, they, themselves, would be the first to object if they felt that the correspondence was interfering with the best progress of those they liked so much. With all good wishes, believe me Faithfully yours. Dr. Alfred E. 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Title A name given to the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass., to Mr. Stearns June 4, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass., to Mr. Stearns June 4, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 4, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. 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Title A name given to the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass., to Mr. Stearns June 10, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass., to Mr. Stearns June 10, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 10, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/60f5169e140c5e20b68a210a6507b86e.jpg 4ee8e738a178c6d5c939a25dc1118f35 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4a478c42634b8be329f035bb7a9d706b.jpg 22ebd95afd3c9114bcffaee13da317ef 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 1923-1926 Folder 1, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass. June 12, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass. June 12, 1926 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 12, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource June 12. 1926 Miss Mary Sun Sea Pines School Brewster, Mass. Dear Mary: Your letter of June 10 reached me yesterday, and, as this is the day of the Exeter ball game, I am rushed to death and can only send a brief reply now. First, I have instructed Miss Pickford to purchase blankets and whatever else you require for the summer, so that you will not lack for these necessaries. I am also going to send her at once a check as reserve for you to draw on, with her approval, when you need incidental expenses. As to the summer, I have had further correspondence with Dr.Sze, and in a letter received from him only yesterday have his warm approval of the Sea Pines Summer School as offering better advantages than the somewhat indefinite Ithaca plan which we first discussed. Frankly, I am sure that you will be happier and much better physically at Sea Pines than you would be at Ithaca, especially if we happen to have a hot summer; indeed I can't think of a better place or arrangement under which summer work could be done than those offered at Sea Pines. I have written Miss Bickford about the requirements for your admission. The Elmira authorities are going to be very generous with you and are giving you full credit for all the work you have done to date. They will require a little further work in Algebra, however, and feel, as do I, that such additional work as you can do in English and perhaps French will make the Freshman year much simpler for you and consequently much more satisfactory in every I will see about the trunk at once. Possibly it would be better for you to have all three sent down, so that you can look over your things at your leisure this summer and take what you will require to Elmira. As Miss Clemons is going abroad with Marjorie before the summer is over and will be gone for most of the coming year, at least, we shall have to make some other arrangements for your general- oversight, and I imagine that, under the circumstances my house would not be the best place for you to leave your belongings. Indeed I am not sure yet just how I shall conduct the house next year or whether it will be possible for me to make vacation provision for you and the boys. Consequently it would seem that it might be well for you to have any of your clothes or other belongings that you may wish to get at during the year with you at Elmira. So just you cheer up about that work and don't get discouraged. There is absolutely no reason why you should feel in doubt about your admission to Elmira. Just carry out the instructions which the college authorities have given, do your best this summer, but don't overdo, and I am sure you will go sailing into college well prepared to do the college work and in good physical condition to stand the strain. With every best wish to you, believe me always Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. 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Title A name given to the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass., to Mr. Stearns August 8, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass., to Mr. Stearns August 8, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 8, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource May 24, 1926 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun I this morning received your letter of April 31. Mr.Sze and I have had personal conference and have continued to discuss Mary’s case and plan for her future by correspondence. Your letter seems to express your full approval of the steps which we have been taking, a bit in the dark at times, I must admit, so far as your real desires were known to us. This morning’s mail also brings me a letter from the President of Elmira College, the college which both Mr. Sze and I decided was best fitted to meet Mary's needs, saying that after reading my letter the Committee on Admissions had decided to admit Mary on my recommendation, even though she may not be fully able to pass all of the regular entrance examinations. This is good news indeed, and the gratifying decision is no doubt due in large measure to Mr.Sze's personal influence and interest in the case. Of course for Mary's own sake it is imperative that, even though technically admitted, she should have covered as far as possible the full preparation required in order that she may not find the college work itself beyond her reach and too hard. With Mr. Sze's help, I am arranging for her to study during the summer under the direction and in the home of a competent member of the Elmira College faculty. I am sure that such a plan offers the best and most worth while kind of a summer that can be planned for Mary at Just this stage. Now that Mary’s case has been definitely, and I believe satisfactorily, settled. I most admit that the biggest problem I have on my bands at present and the cause of my chief worry is Tom. Tom is not doing well, and our combined efforts to rouse him and make him realize just where he stands and where he is heading seen thus far to have failed. At our last faculty meeting I asked Tom's teachers for full and frank expression of opinion on Tom and his problem. All are agreed that the boy can and should do letter work. Most of them also feel, as I have come to feel, that the boy has reached the point where he is not gaining additional benefits by the school connection here but indeed gives evidences of slipping a bit. We can't possibly graduate this June. By faculty vote he has just been put on what we call probation because of his low standing and because this is the customary penalty imposed on a boy with a record like Tom's. This means that, in the judgment of the faculty, it is altogether unlikely that the boy should be allowed to go on here next year. The more I have studied the case, the clearer I am that Tom is not yet quite ready for college and the freedom of collage , unless it be a small New England college somewhat separated from the temptations and activities of a big city. He might get into such a college next fall, but I doubt whether this would be rise. My inclination at the moment is to favor and favor rather strongly a year in a good military school, for Tom evidently needs discipline, to be made to do things accurately and on time and to obey orders promptly and without questioning - in fact to make those contacts and secure those influences which a prod military school supplies. I have been interested to find that several of my colleagues on the faculty who have known Tom most intimately share my views completely. When Mr. Robinson appears, I shall discuss the case with him fully and carefully, for I confess that I am troubled, and I must also admit that it seems out of the question for Tom to fulfill your wish that he should graduate from this school without forcing him to take another year, which would mean a good deal of repetition and a continuation of the same influences which have lately, at least, not proved stimulating to him. with the inevitable result of lessened ambition and effort on is part; and that, of course, would mean ultimate disaster and must be avoided at all costs. I appreciate more deeply than I can tell you the friendly and generous cooperation you have so readily given me at all times and the confidence you have so generously reposed in me as I have sought to carry out your wishes for your children. Naturally I am doubly troubled when the results most desired do not come or seem to be at least delayed. At any rate, I can assure you that to whatever extent I may have failed in aiding your children to obtain the goals which you have cherished for them, there has been no lack of willingness or interest and there has always been a sharing on my part of the disappointment and regret which have naturally been years. Believe me, with warm regards and friendliest good wishes. Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/389b9d06ec181b516a28ae74b17162bb.jpg bd32d9f55d3dd03af6049fc7fe80985b 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 1923-1926 Folder 1, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Sea Pine School, Brewster, Mass. August 10, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Sea Pine School, Brewster, Mass. August 10, 1926 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 August 10, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource August 10, 1926 Miss Mary Sun Sea Pine School Brewster, Mass. Dear Mary: Good for you, and hearty congratulations. I am glad that you are going to have no further worry for the sunnier, though I am sure that every bit of work you put in for the rest of the tine before college opens will prove of immense value to you, especially during the Freshman year. When you decide where you are going to visit after your summer session closes, be sure to let me have the addressee so that I can keep posted as to your whereabouts. I am still in Andover as you will note from this letter, though I hope to be able to get into the woods for two or three weeks before school reopens. I am returning the Elmira papers which you will doubtless need for reference. Always sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. 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Title A name given to the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass., to Mr. Stearns August 16, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass., to Mr. Stearns August 16, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 16, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun