11 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/530cfc40800fddafac12ce1ed550b7d1.jpg d6e2f832da07933a1f4be677e5f76571 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 Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, to Alfred E. Stearns October 3, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, to Alfred E. Stearns October 3, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas 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 October 3, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e60e3e2eeeb9e0c75e1dd27fc8279b84.jpg 0bd92cb5519ed68b0ec269fe34470a35 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1fe79a61c95cb857aa61531f86842580.jpg e90b898a4bfb0c9d8361eb1cd38bc5d6 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 Thomas Sun, New York City, to Alfred E. Stearns June 29, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, New York City, to Alfred E. Stearns June 29, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas 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 29, 1929 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Stearns, I just received my marks from Middlebury college for the past year. They are as follows; Social Psychology- 86 Business Law-- 70 International Law—--81 Social efficiency——8l Economic Geography of Europe-- 86 Ave. 80.8 This is the highest average yet attained by me, and I think that I have done well considering the courses that I had. International Law and Business Law are the two hardest courses I ever had in one year. Last semester I got 72 in International Law, add I raised that mark to 81 for this semester. In Business Law, I dropped three points. I had an average well over eighty until I took the examination for which I got 50. That pulled my average way down. I am very disappointed in that courses. As a whole, my average improved by two whole points, and I am also satisfied as to the courses I took. They were well worth the while. I am here in Columbia for the Summer school. I haven’t decided yet what courses I will take yet, but I am sure that they will be in the Political science department. I have been thinking strongly to take some courses in International Law. I like it very much, and I sometimes think that I want to be a Diplomat rather than a Political Scientist. I realized the fact that the summer will be an expensive one for me. Whatever it costs, I value the Chinese friends whom I have met twice that amount, You do not know how much I appreciate Chinese association after four years of ‘isolation’. During those four years, I met not a single Chinese. Therefore I welcome this change to come into contact with them. Charlie came unexpectedly into my room last night. I understand that he plans to attend the Summer School at Columbia also. Mary left three days ago for New Haven where she had to resume her work. Very Sincerely yours Thomas Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d729f3ec045a729e2a318a0dd3c8417a.jpg b4d374f218acf1a902b3a35e45091f28 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6f946d3e12e753de5249725ba6d6158d.jpg 91d39dc2a7999b95a51fb254e254af71 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 Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, to Alfred E. Stearns February 6, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, to Alfred E. Stearns February 6, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas 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 February 6, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d96fa43c30bdd9701e7eb76049e1f7c4.jpg 61e7430a0ccf4466b7f54145238be4a2 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 Charlie Sun, Amherst, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns February 8, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Charlie Sun, Amherst, Mass., to Alfred E. Stearns February 8, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charlie 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 February 8, 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 Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b702eaa7bb1380fd57b32e1daa4dd516.jpg 97ffdc72b80932ec1faa4280206a367a 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 Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass. February 11, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass. February 11, 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 February 11, 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 February 11, 1929 Mr. Charles Sun P. 0. Box 93 Amherst, Mass. Dear Charlie: Thank you for your note received this morning. I am glad that the examinations are out of the way and hope that means that you will not be working under quite such a strain for the next few weeks, at least. It is difficult for me to find out just how Mary is going in her work, though I have tried on numerous occasions to get the information desired. My impression is that she is really doing a bit better than at the start. At least, though some of her marks, when last I received them, were so seemingly low as to prompt me to write a somewhat severe letter to her. I felt that if she could or would not do well in work which she professed to like so much and which she had been allowed to take only reluctantly, as you know. XX her father and largely because of my own personal pleadings, there was certainly room for real anxiety. Mary always has a good excuse to offer for her failures, and she gave me seemingly good excuses for the low marks in question. If they do not improve by the end of this year, however. I shall seriously question whether Mary ought to stay in this country longer or attempt to go forward in her work. I am due in Amherst the latter part of this month for a Sunday and shall certainly hope to have a chance to talk this all over with you in person. Faithfully yours, AES/G Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e73a46fb736851ef57c6c6ae13b48b90.jpg e9f25dbeae77a6f8d5fbda4e5d424afd 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 Annie W. Goodrich, Yale School of Nursing, to Alfred E. Stearns February 15, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Annie W. Goodrich, Yale School of Nursing, to Alfred E. Stearns February 15, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Annie W. Goodrich 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 15, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts My dear Dr. Stearns: I have for some time been intending to write you concerning Miss Sun, though I fear I can not give a very different account than that conveyed in my letter of December 11th. Miss Sun I think is sincerely interested in continuing in the school. On the recommendation of the instructor in Physiology she took a second examination but again failed. Mr. Taft is of the same opinion that you expressed in your letter of December 12th, that it is a matter of lack of effort rather than of intelligence. He made a suggestion which I believe may bear very directly upon her problem, namely that she memorizes rather than comprehends. This would account for her meaningless answers to some of the questions which have greatly puzzled the examiners. Under ordinary circumstances we would have the student repeat the courses in which she has failed. For Miss Sun’s Physiology Mr. Taft has suggested as a better method that she be tutored. This would involve some expense. It would not perhaps be justified unless we are convinced that she can qualify in the other subjects. Miss Sun is very hesitant to have you troubled concerning the expense of tutoring. She feels she will be able to meet this from her allowance as her expenditures are very small. In the next six weeks she will have a particularly heavy program of theory. After careful consideration of the matter it was decided that it would be best to wait until she had completed this period, and if she was able to carry the subject satisfactorily we would then, with your approval, arrange to have her tutored in Physiology. Miss Sun herself has suggested that this be arranged during the summer. Our course, however, is an intensive one extending over twenty-eight months with a month’s vacation each year. I would believe it better if possible for her to have her month free from any such demand. May I assure you that we are not as yet prepared to say that Miss Sun should not continue. I personally am of the opinion that she is quite capable of doing the work, and that if we patiently seek for the means through which she can be effectively assisted that she will eventually complete the course with credit. Trusting that this will be in accord with your own desire Very sincerely yours Annie W. Goodrich Dean Annie W. Goodrich Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/669e20762ba17a16799797503972921c.jpg 711bb5f945d483e7efb828eec8c0ae47 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d5c16bc3d6197c50292d690ce6e03ee2.jpg 9dade4b69bcd204c9a3252bdabb8d513 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 Dean Annie W. Goodrich, Yale School of Nursing February 16, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Dean Annie W. Goodrich, Yale School of Nursing February 16, 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 February 16, 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 February 16, 1929 Dean Annie W. Goodrich 330 Cedar Street New Haven, Conn. My dear Miss Goodrich: The morning’s mail brings me your letter of February 15 and one of the same date from our friend Mary Sun. Needless to say the news conveyed in both letters is not altogether pleasing. I am writing Mary advising her to follow your suggestions and to arrange for immediate tutoring in Physiology, for I agree with you that this should not be postponed until a brief summer vacation. I am assuming that you will be able and willing to recommend a competent tutor for Miss Sun. Mary's father is perfectly capable to bear the expense, and I am sure it is a legitimate one in view of the conditions that confront us at the moment. Mary's record at Yale has been a keen disappointment to me, and I have about given up trying to fathom her mind and purpose. Her father has always been extremely anxious that she should get a college degree in this country from one of our best colleges for women. It seemed very doubtful for several years whether Mary would be able to meet such high standards. I made a special trip to Washington to talk the matter over with Mr. Sze, the Chinese Minister, who is a personal friend of Mr. Sun, and on his recommendation entered Mary in Elmira College out in New York State. She was seemingly unhappy there from the start and floundered pretty steadily in her work. The Dean at Elmira gave me reports almost identical to yours and intimated that Mary had much more ability than she professed or than her achievements indicated. All of this time Mary was constantly pleading with me to be allowed to study nursing. Her father, being an old-fashioned Chinese, could not look upon nursing as a high grade profession. I vigorously advocated the plan to study nursing, however, believing that Mary would be able to do her best under the influence and inspiration of this profession. When she was a member of my household a few years ago, she impressed everyone there with her natural gifts in this direction. I finally succeeded in persuading Mr. Sun that this was the proper thing for Mary to do, and he gave his consent. You can understand, therefore, that it is tremendously disturbing to me to feel that Mary is not doing her best in this particular work for which she claims such a deep interest and in which she unquestionably has talent. Mary's older brother who is at Amherst and who is a sterling follow is as much disturbed over the situation as I am and is inclined to agree with me that if at the end of the year Mary shows that she cannot or will not meet the proper requirements of your school, she should be sent back to China. Anyway, I shall await with keen interest the results of the new arrangement and shall hope most earnestly to hear that Mary io making real progress with the assistance of such outside help as she may be able to secure under your guidance and approval. Very sincerely yours. Annie W. Goodrich Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/324485cbe81fa5910756a0463717114f.jpg fe272ba0d7cee57a246535779096421b 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 Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns February 15, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns February 15, 1929 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 February 15, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/043054570e4ef0ab127fec34993196e0.jpg 91c08aea61106023cf7783dff5f9d664 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 Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn. February 16, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn. February 16, 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 February 16, 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 February 16, 1929 Miss Mary Sun 62 Park Street New Haven, Conn. My dear Mary: I have this morning received your letter and in the same mail one from Dean Goodrich. I have just written Miss Goodrich expressing my approval of the plan to have you secure special tutoring in your Physiology. If with this outside help you are not able to bring your standing up to the proper grade, I think we shall be reluctantly compelled to agree that we must give up the idea of any further education for you in America. I should hate to do this, but I can't see how any other conclusion could properly be reached. What troubles me most is the intimation given by your Dean, an intimation which I also received from your Dean at Elmira, that you have not done work of a grade commensurate with your real ability. Perhaps they are mistaken but I did hope and believe, because of your seeming interest in nursing, that you would convince everyone from the start that you were giving yourself heart and soul to your studies, even though you might not be able to attain a high rank in them. Anyway, the thing to do now is to see Miss Goodrich at once and secure a good tutor. Never mind the expense. Before everything else you must establish your standing in the Yale School and not face the possibility of having to drop out of the end of the year. Very sincerely yours. AES/G Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/403e956f3b5ac2a819ee8941576b1fd7.jpg c47eff5c87d616a3a92ccefbced04d41 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 Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass. February 19, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass. February 19, 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 February 19, 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 February 19, 1929 Mr. Charles Sun P. 0. Box 93 Amherst, Mass. Dear Charlie: I have your letter of February 18. and am enclosing a check to replenish your depleted bank account, as requested. We will talk over details when I see you a couple of weeks hence. I should be very reluctant to go back to the monthly installment plan, for you are old enough now to handle your own finances, if you are ever going to do it, successfully,and the experience which you are getting in having your own bank account and discovering how easily it may shrink will be of value to you all through your later life. Further, I am sure that you will not knowingly abuse the privilege of handling your funds in this way, even though you may make mistakes at times. Ever faithfully yours, AES/G EnCe Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns