1 10 67 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1e8c2f573e2c2b52fb9a7820da26f201.jpg 64e8198d7e8204ce2fd1c32cf634093e https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/344a663ebfc29fc3f70059c12e4dca3c.jpg e16f2d69060e758b3827819370dac369 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 January-June 1927, 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 Copy of letter (for Stearns) from Ernestine H. French, Elmira College, to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., January 11, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Copy of letter (for Stearns) from Ernestine H. French, Elmira College, to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., January 11, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Sze: After receiving your letter yesterday asking for a frank report on the status and prospects of Mary Sun, I looked up her record in the Dean's office and found that Mary had received only one "warning" (which means unsatisfactory work) and that was in French last month. I found in talking with the Dean that Mary was allowed and advised by her to drop French because of the natural linguistic difficulties which, combined with an otherwise hard schedule, made the continuance of French this first semester too difficult for her. It will only mean the making up of two hours which can be done much more easily at some future time when college work and everything connected with it are not so new and strange. Even without the French Mary is carrying fourteen hours a week, including the laboratories. I have talked with each of the professors in the departments in which Mary is working -- Biology, Chemistry, English and Bible and find that they all agree that Mary is an average student doing passing work. Miss Whittaker, head of the biological department said that some time ago she had asked one of the young instructors to give some special attention to Mary and Tsao Ching to familiarize them with terms and to go over some of the points that the other students had previously had in High School. This seems to have helped them very much and their work has been quite satisfactory. Miss Eastom reports that Mary does very good work in Chemistry, in fact much better than that done by some of the American students. Professor Mould reports that Mary's work in Bible is like that of the average American student -- it is passing but not particularly good. In English, also, the report is that there is no question of Mary's not passing -- she is doing satisfactory though not excellent work. Her English teacher told me that she had felt that Mary might do better in English and that she wanted her to improve and so had been a little severe with her. She feels that Mary is, perhaps, a little "spoiled" and apt to become discouraged if she is not praised and made a great deal of. Her idea in telling Mary that she must do better work and show more improvement in her English work was that a little wholesome criticism would be good for the girl. Nearly every girl has a period of discouragement during her first year at College. There are so many new adjustments even for the native students to make, that it is quite natural that the difficulties should at times seem insurmountable to the girls and Page two that they should be tempted to want to give the whole thing up. Added to this very natural situation which must be faced by almost everyone, is Mary's present physical condition which makes everything look dark to her. She came back from the Christmas vacation with a very bad cold. Our resident physician is looking after her and makes Mary lie down and rest for one hour every afternoon. This rest is in place, I believe of the regular gymnasium work, and is a very excellent thing in every way for a girl who is temporarily run down. We all feel that it would be a very great mistake for Mary to leave college now. She has really passed through the most difficult part -- and successfully, although not with such distinction as she evidently would have liked. Examinations being this week and that is another thing which makes her anxious. Her professors have assured me that she is likely to pass although she herself seems to think that her marks are so poor that she is ashamed of them. I believe that she rates her accomplishments too low and the possibilities of achievement under the circumstances, too high. Mary is well liked by the students and made a great deal of by them. She has been invited several times to spend the week-end in Corning at the beautiful home of Mrs. Samuel Hawkes whose daughter was at Sea Pines Camp with Mary, but Mary has never accepted the invitations, thinking that she was too busy with her work. Professor Mould of the department of Bible and Mrs. Mould plan to entertain Mary with some of the other students in their home very soon. Of course, I have had Mary at my house and have asked her to come whenever she can, but she has not accepted without a special invitation. Personally, I feel, very strongly that Mary's feeling of discouragement, while perhaps natural under the circumstances, should not be taken seriously. She is doing as good work as the average student and all conditions surrounding her college life, so far as I can see, are pleasant, wholesome and beneficial. I believe that it would be a very grave mistake for her to be allowed to "give up." I trust that this report will be of assistance. You and Dr. Stearns may rest assured that a very personal interest is taken in Mary as in all of "our girls" at Elmira. We want each and everyone of them not only to develop into the best possible women but to be happy in doing so. President Lent as you know takes a very special interest in each student. He has asked to have a talk with Mary tomorrow. With very cordial good wishes for the New Year to you and Madame Sze, I am Sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ernestine H. French 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 11, 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 Correspondence Ernestine French Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5eae2460b2388e2a96587453fcf85811.jpg 5d3fdd7f60f8f43470450a7b4c9fd8f2 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 2, 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 Copy of undated cable from C.Y. Sun to Sze, Chinese Delegation, Washington, D.C. Subject The topic of the resource Copy of undated cable from C.Y. Sun to Sze, Chinese Delegation, Washington, D.C. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy 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 Sze Stearns Sinolegate, Washington D.C. Thanks for satisfactory arrangement have instructed Robinson on accordingly Sun 3 Hankow Road, Shanghai. C.Y.Sun Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e98ccfd645da188775fbcb34a5b668f5.jpg f9b06f8853f5337d7629d63c2ff4a0b8 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/68aba081caf4bb93611e0d5dee45fc82.jpg 91438d42aa755cfc6f10af6986378585 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 28 Folder 1 Mary Sun, 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 Draft of a telegram from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to S.K. Alfred Sze, April 5, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Draft of a telegram from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to S.K. Alfred Sze, April 5, 1926 Description An account of the resource Draft of a telegram from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns sent to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze. States Mary should return to school directly from Washington, no visits. Wired $60.00 Mary requested. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 5, 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 Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/360352d9dfee0ebeede6a9d68a19a42e.jpg 6a364328108136efdfcda070eebb873c https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/342223b1ad91448dbf48ad385da48465.jpg 8749a3e9a2ecab218c3511456aeed74f 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 28 Folder 1 Mary Sun, 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 Draft of telegram sent from A.E. Stearns to Hon. S.K. Alfred Sze, March 22, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Draft of telegram sent from A.E. Stearns to Hon. S.K. Alfred Sze, March 22, 1926 Description An account of the resource Draft of a telegram sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, requesting a meeting in Washington, D.C. regarding Mary Sun. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 22, 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 Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ce1810a323a6764189a6e367a52dd6a9.jpg 14b5cd244e128f5df8c8174c3c5c9e52 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Envelope from Elmira College for mail to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., January 18, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Envelope from Elmira College for mail to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., January 18, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elmira College 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, 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 Envelope Elmira College Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/85dcf5979d711bf3156772374a1dfddf.jpg fa4fa22fd50a72937bf399f7a79b6f7b 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 E. Stearns to Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. December 19, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. December 19, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Sze: Thank you for your prompt and more than satisfactory reply to my letter of recent date. I am making plans for the Suns to leave for Washington the day after Christmas and I hope that the oldest brother, now in Cambridge, and Quincey Sheh, who is due back from Bowdoin shortly, will join the party. Of course I can't speak for them finally until I have learned their decision. With holiday greetings, believe me Faithfully yours , Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2e2d055a517ac879fe2f3a1e7b5b716c.jpg bae3b9076f1e3077081d66040bd0c47a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 30 Sun Siblings 1929, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao K. Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, London November 14, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao K. Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, London November 14, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 14, 1929 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource My dear Doctor Sze: Your letter of October 30, enclosing that of Mr. C.Y. Sun dated July 20, has just reached me. On receipt of your letter I cabled you as follows: "Have instructed Charles Sun arrange passage England earliest possible date" Please pardon my seeming carelessness in not sending you an earlier message, but I had assumed that Charlie Sun himself would advise you direct of his plans. Only yesterday I received word from Charlie that he was to sail today on the S. S. "Bremen". Doubtless he will have reached you before this letter appears. I am sure that you will find Charlie Sun as fine a boy as it has ever been your privilege to meet. Of all the Chinese boys with whom I have been thrown in intimate contact for the past thirty years, Charlie, I think, has proved on the whole, as able and satisfactory a lad as any of the group. He has been conscientious and faithful in his work, always dependable, and yet possessing social qualities which have not led him astray into social excesses by any means, but which have rendered him as acceptable companion and friend to those who have had the opportunity to meet him. I feel sure that he will be able to render you at this time a real service and that as the years go by he will exert no little influence for all that is best in his own homeland. I am naturally very much interested in what you write me of the piece of jade which Mr. C.Y. Sun has so generously consigned to me through your good offices, nothing could be valued more highly by me than a gift of this kind and there is no one from whom more than Mr. Sun it would prompt deeper feelings of appreciation. Under the circumstances, I believe that it will probably be best for you to ship the jade direct to me, if this can be done in safety, for I do not know how soon if at all I could delegate some friend to bring it over in person. If you feel that there is any serious risk involved in shipping it, I shall of course defer to your judgment and try to discover some one during the months ahead who will be coming back to this country and who I can perhaps persuade to secure from you and bring in person to me the article in question. With warm personal regards, and wishing you every success and happiness in your life and work in England, believe me Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8a9fa450c2be471fb668ce249496f3a6.jpg 2804444e441b8756a283c29ea74f17d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 30 Sun Siblings 1929, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao K. Alfred Sze, London December 26, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao K. Alfred Sze, London December 26, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 26, 1929 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource December 26, 1929 Dear Doctor Sze: Thank you for your letter of December 4, advising me of Charlie Sun's arrival and your receipt of my letter of November 14. Charlie has already written me several times, and I judge from the tone of his letters that he has been passing through the natural period of homesickness and distress associated with readjustments to new conditions and the making of new contacts with strangers. I am glad to feel that a good friend like you is standing by to help him in this process. It will be wholly unsatisfactory to me to have Mrs. Sze bring the jade to New York with her when she makes the trip later. My own son is located in New York now and I can easily arrange to have him meet her if desired on her arrival. Wishing you and yours the happiest of New Years, and with kind personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/73a667c8e5acf67a97bd99358029b83d.jpg da039d58e4cc4187919c7091b9d8055a 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 January-June 1927, 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 Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C,. February 5, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C,. February 5, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Sze: I wish to thank you for sending me so promptly the copy of Miss French's letter. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 5, 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 Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/84c0c2bcd7d5ef96b8aedcf1825af78b.jpg 31c399d04386bbff338fbae256659a3c 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 Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. June 11, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 1926 Dr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze Chinese Legation Washington, D. C. My dear Dr. Sze Thank you for your letter of June 7, which I find on my desk on my return from a hurried trip to New York. I am asking the Principal of Sea Pines to send you the literature of the school that you may have a clear picture of the place and its life and work. Miss Bickford writes me by this morning's mail that Mary seems increasingly contented and happy; so that I am disposed to agree with you that the best arrangement I can make for Mary is to continue the Sea Pines connection through the summer, and I hope that Mary herself will feel that this is really the best thing to do. I received only a few days ago Mr. Sun’s letter to which you refer. Apparently he is inclined to approve all of the steps we have taken thus far to provide for Mary’s 'further stay in America and her college course. Trusting that you will have a most enjoyable and restful simmer, believe me Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze