22 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/360fc959df7ff44937a5f3d7e35f3bae.jpg 10f811c424e5bfc2b752a71ff4b92130 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 5037, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, April 17, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, April 17, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 17, 1923 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource April 17, 1922 Mr. Tsai, Shou Kie 35 Race Course Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Tsai: Thank you for you nice letter of March 22. The letter which I have more recently mailed you will have arrived no doubt before this, and hence it will not be necessary for me to repeat what I have already said in that communication. Kuo Fang at present is studying at the Steams School at Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. He is evidently working with good spirit and in the hope of gaining admission to one of our good but smaller England colleges this coming fall. Amherst, I believe, is his present objective. The goal is a worthy one and the plan has my full approval, whether or no you finally decide to permit him to pursue the college course in America. I hope you will approve. Again my sincere and kindest regards to yourself and the various members of your family circle. Faithfully yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c6a98d1cbd65adac0198538abb042c6b.jpg e863ad578ffd157f90f2a5cbcd4fb14f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 5037, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, Hartford, Conn. April 5, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, Hartford, Conn. April 5, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 5, 1923 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Mr. K. F. Tsai The Pines Hartford, Conn. My dear Tsai: Thank you for your two notes, received during the vacation and advising me of your whereabouts. Evidently they are a bit generous with their vacations up at Mont Vernon. I have heard nothing from your father since I last saw you. A letter which I dictated to him several days ago I am holding until I can see you, for I want to send him the doctor’s report, which I feel he ought to have, and which I know will cause him a good deal of relief. If you happen to have it with you, please send it on to me. I imagine, though, that you may have left it at Mont Vernon. If you can drop off here on your way back from Hartford, I shall be glad to see you. Faithfully yours, Charlie Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ef5652de2fafca7570712c04c0e47a27.jpg 564534efb4898fbbdb36d3fe71693a0a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 5037, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, The Stearns School, Mont Vernon, N.H. March 28, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, The Stearns School, Mont Vernon, N.H. March 28, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 28, 1923 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource March 26, 1923. Mr. K. F. Tsai The Stearns School, Mt. Vernon, N. H. My dear Tsai: Evidently I left the enclosed bill out of the last envelope sent you. Please O.K. and return if it is all right. I believe I also mailed you the report of your medical examination in Boston. If so, kindly send it back to me, for I have promised it to your father and I do not feel justified in bothering Dr. Pratt to make out a duplicate copy. I have written your father fully about it and told him that I felt that now that you knew for a certainty that you had no real physical weakness to worry about, I had every reason to believe that you would be able to take hold of your work with better courage from now on, and that the relief to your mind would find itself expressed in a generally better physical condition. That’s my hope and belief. I trust you will realize than both. Faithfully yours, Charlie Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8c6a9bdfb628a6bec98ffe8e7e2e4dc1.jpg 9e7ea87717ccb5a1da8a120798b3b866 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/961d0dcae5c2a39406f439ffa28eaabc.jpg 153a8181278e25c29b69cef32794db03 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bdf6d0888ff4019c845a1c9f63498239.jpg 747dddb82e238bd82e2f30ed346048ff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 5037, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, March 27, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, March 27, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 27, 1923 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource March 27, 1923 Mr. S. K. Tsai 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Tsai: Some time has passed since I last wrote you, and I am writing now to bring the report up to date. Kuo Fong, himself, has doubtless told you the readjustments which have recently been made in his life and work here. As I told you in the last letter, it seemed clear to all of us that the boy was not making sufficient progress in his work at Phillips Academy to justify a continuance of the school connection. Under the circumstances, therefore, the faculty decided that he could give up the Andover connection and advised a smaller school up to such a time as you should either approve of the arrangement or decide on something entirely different. On this basis I arranged for the boy to go to Mont Vernon which was his own choice and where he felt that ho would be able to accomplish most because of familiarity with the conditions there and the friendships already formed. He is at work there at present and writes me so that he has some hope of being able to enter Amherst or one of the smaller colleges this fall. This ambition ought to prove a stimulus to him, and I have, therefore, encouraged him to make his goal. I have never been able to determine satisfactorily whether the boy’s inability to get better results was due to poor health, lack of interest, or limited mental capacity. Outside of his books he has never shown any lack of mental ability; so that I have always felt that the real difficulty lay somewhere else. In order to be perfectly fair to the boy I finally decided that it was wise to have him very carefully examined competent medical experts, and this was done. Dr.Pratt, the diagnostician to whom I sent him, is a personal friend of nine and probably the leading man in his line certainly in Boston, if not in the country. The exhaustive report which he made to me, including his own letter. I an enclosing herewith. While not versed in medical language itself, it seems to me clear that the trouble is largely nervous and, to a considerable extent at least, capable of control by the boy himself. This I have endeavored to the best of my ability to impress on Kuo Fong, and he has promised me to work hard to force himself to believe that he is physically stronger than he has been inclined to think in the pact. I think that he is a good bit relieved himself to find that the examination had disclosed no physical conditions to justify anxiety. If this is so, he will have made a long step towards control and an attitude of mind which should help distinctly in general physical improvement. On this basis his scholarship, too. should gain. You have asked me not to bother to send you detailed statements of the boy’s accounts, but as I have them all in the cash book I have used for the various boys in my charge, I shall be glad to submit them at any time you desire; indeed I should feel a bit more comfortable myself to do so. Just at present the account has been overdrawn by $393.30. I believe that the boy himself has informed you of the situation; so that I am not worrying at all about it. His tuition has been paid at the new school until the close of the year, and of course he has not been charged for the final payment here. I have also allowed him $50 for spring vacation expenses. Please remember me most warmly to the boys and any other of my old friends who may still happen to be with you or in your general vicinity. I have been following as best I could through the incomplete reports that come to us in our American papers developments in China in recent months. What a wonderful thing it will be for China and the world when a stable and absolutely honest and responsible government is once established. Believe me with kindest personal regards Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/96d9485d270845a9544a8217bb057530.jpg c131734b3f6d9733e547ebb9b8005225 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 5037, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, Mont Vernon, N.H. , March 21, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, Mont Vernon, N.H. , March 21, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 21, 1923 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource March 21, 1923 Mr.K.F.Tani Mount Vernon, N.H. I have your letter of March 20th, and am enclosing a check for fifty dollars to cover your vacation expense. Kindly return receipt. I also enclave Dr. Verehoeff’s bill, which you neglected to O.K. Please O.K. and return this also. If you can get into a college like Amherst this fall, by all means put in your best work to do so. I can’t think of anything: that would please your father more, and it would be a real relief to me to feel that you had been able to make that definite grade in your progress. Very sincerely yours, Two enclosures Charlie Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/dce7a89a335998a031f8465f8746038b.jpg 7427de5fa86bb1d624a8dd28f994be32 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 5037, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, The Stearns School, Mont Vernon, N.H., February 20, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, The Stearns School, Mont Vernon, N.H., February 20, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 20, 1923 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource February 20, 1923 Mr. K. F. Tsai, The Stearns School, Mt. Vernon, N. H. My dear Tsai: Thank you for your last letter. I understand clearly now why you needed the extra money so don't apologize. I am the one who ought to do that. I have heard from Dr. Pratt, and evidently the question of your health lies pretty largely in your own hands. What you need to do is to quit worrying about yourself and just refuse to believe for one minute that you are not as strong and healthy as the next fellow. Unless you can get yourself into this frame of mind I am afraid that you are going to be bothered all your life, and increasingly so. Now is certainly the time to change your point of view, for it will be horded to do so as you get older. Some golf stockings, which you evidently got at Macullar-Parker’s, came to me recently, but as my name was the only one that appeared on the bo, I hadn't the slightest idea to whom they belonged. In answer to a letter of inquiry of minfi, however, the firm has just written me that these goods were purchased by you and should have been sent to Mt. Vernon. I judge that you have been making some pretty extensive purchases there lately from what they tell me. Don't forgot that you are spending more money, pretty regularly, than any other Chinese boy who has been under my care for a number of years. I do wish you could learn to cut things down to within reasonable limits, though I want you to have, and I know your father does, all that is really essential. What I can't quite understand is just why your bills should be so much heavier than those of the other boys, who seem to have all that they require. Faithfully yours, Charlie Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/759d5e353f33f0d8638c9cf7581a0db3.jpg 651e872fd79218dde728637323f4f6ca Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 5037, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Dr. Joseph H. Pratt, Boston, February 12, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Dr. Joseph H. Pratt, Boston, February 12, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 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 Relation A related resource February 12, 1923 Dr. Joseph H. Pratt, 317 Marlborough Street, Boston, Mass. Dear Dr. Pratt: Thank you for your letter about Tsai. I am very much relieved at what you say, and trust that the later reports may strengthen your present optimist. The boy has been under my charge for a number of years but, unlike his two older brothers, he has caused me a good bit of anxiety from time to time. I have never felt clear whether his ailments started from the mental, the moral, or the physical realm. Anyway, your further reports will awaited with keen interest. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Joseph H. Pratt https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0013c15ccabf141ff3c1d9148711993d.jpg 04022d240fdf20dbacb277f21dcfa68f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/63e1ec58013c6778a91d4eebfba4a541.jpg c51a3acb0958375f453dfa6fa2dfd7b8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 5037, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, The Stearns School, Mont Vernon, N.H., January 18, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, The Stearns School, Mont Vernon, N.H. , January 18, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 18, 1923 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource 18 January, 1923 Mr. K. F. Tsai The Stearns School Mont Vernon, New Hampshire My dear Tsai: Thank you for your nice note. I am enclosing check for ten dollars, as requested. Kindly return receipt. I do hope you will find that your work at Mont Vernon for the rest of this year will help you greatly in developing a little more momentum and in getting results. I can’t bear to think of the possibility of your losing out, though, as you know, I have been very anxious and at times much disappointed up to date. Let me take this opportunity also to apologize sincerely for the unfortunate developments at the beginning of the term, for the story has come to me that you returned to Andover without any idea that you were to withdraw at this time, and that you did not discover the fact until you found some one else in your room. I thought I had made it clear to you before you left for your holidays that this was without much doubt to be the decision of the faculty. When I wrote you, therefore, during the middle of the holiday vacation asking you to come to Andover a day or two before school opened in order to decide on your plans for the future, I felt practically clear that you could interpret this letter in no other way than that the decision for the change had been definitely reached. If I had happened to be here at the very openings of the winter term, perhaps I could have eased the situation for you. Anyway I am sincerely sorry for what happened, and can assure you that whatever the humiliation to which you may have been subjected, it was all entirely unintentional on my part. Very sincerely yours, Enclosures Charlie Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/78e7dcd83cd158695b5bbf85c7ed2627.jpg d566dd1b7a8bf1e6532fb66003b7613c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 5037, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, Hartford, Conn., December 30, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, Hartford, Conn., December 30, 1922 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 30, 1922 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource 30 December, 1922 Mr. K.F. Tsai P. O. Box 1003 Hartford, Conn. My dear Tsai: Many thanks for your letter resolve! this morning. I am glad the vacation has turned out so well for you. Accept , too, please, my hearty thanks for the scarf which you so generously gave me at the Christmas season. I shall value it highly. After your visit with Mr. Brown I think it would be well for you to plan to run down to Andover a day or two before school is booked to open, so that I can discuss with you the best plan to follow for the rest of the school year. Perhaps you have been giving the matter some thought yourself and may have some suggestions to offer. Faithfully yours, Charlie Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/fd62af87a78bba11fc6ec2cc7c3d0e2a.jpg b1396924d194be4532963eabd284a5ea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 5037, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to S.K. Tsai, Tientsin, December 22, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to S.K. Tsai, Tientsin, December 22, 1922 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 22, 1922 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource December 22, 1922. Mr.S.K.Tsai, Tientsin, China. Dear Mr. Tsai: It is with deepest regret that I am obliged to write you the decision of the faculty requesting Kuo Fong to withdraw from school at this time. In spite of our best efforts, and I and others have constantly labored with the boy,- we have not been able to get him to measure up to the Andover standards, either in achievement or effort. In the past he has been handicapped somewhat by illness, and we have made every reasonable allowance, and I am inclined to think, too great an allowance at times, for the necessary handicaps resulting. This year the boy’s health has been, on the whole, very good, but the results in his school work have been poorer than ever. It seems perfectly clear that, if he is to remain in this country for his further education, he should go to some smaller school where a closer and more exacting supervision is in vogue and where h3 can consequently be guided more closely in his work. I shall try to find such a school for him for next term, though it is my personal belief that the boy has secured from our American educational opportunities about all that he is likely to absorb with profit. Deeply as I dislike to say it, I am pretty thoroughly convinced that Kuo Fong should be called back to China at this time where his problem and needs can be studied at first hand by you and his brothers. Possibly it might be wise later to attempt again the American connection, but I doubt it. Please understand that the boy has always been gentlemanly and courteous in his relations to me. He has been full of promises, too, but the promises have not borne much fruit. I confess that I have reached the end of my resources in dealing with him, and I feel very deeply that the boy ought to have the parental touch at this particular crisis in his life. I am sure you will appreciate that only my deep interest in the boy himself and his future prompts me to write you in this vein. With kindest regards to yourself and the other members of your family circle, believe me always. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns S.K. Tsai