30 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ec404098be9290fa650156134074b44a.jpg 0bdd751e1e9306373b9857a380620e8b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 27 Folder 3 Alfred And Helen Tsai, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass., February 4, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass., February 4, 1928 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 4, 1928 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 Helen: I am enclosing herewith your report card and would suggest that you send it on to your father. I am sure he will be pleased to have it. With all best wishes, believe me Ever sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Helen Tsai https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/fc88a58f553f90f72e27d256256ca566.jpg 52e1decd0af8cf3a14536d0f0c39604c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 27 Folder 3 Alfred And Helen Tsai, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Ting-Kan, Dairen, Manchuria, March 17, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Ting-Kan, Dairen, Manchuria, March 17, 1928 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 17, 1928 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 Mr. Tsai: Just a note supplementary to my recent letter to you to acknowledge the receipt this morning of your note of February 30 enclosing the last page of your earlier letter to me, which I had come to fear had been lost somewhere on the long journey across the world. I am still hopeful that Alfred is beginning to find himself and that we shall have better reports for you later. Just now I am trying to decide on a good school for Helen for this coming year. I am sure that she should now enroll in a much larger institution where she will have a broader life and wider contacts. My problem is to find a school not too far away but which still maintains the high standards of scholarship and character that both of us most desire for Helen. It is not an altogether easy task. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Ting Kan https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/26e97249a0e87feae0ca4d580fdde6d5.jpg 985803f0876523af27a2d5e0ff639a99 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3397a80f5c0336d79eb64345091fc0b2.jpg 138d48d766989f83b35d9cd31ce6f825 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 27 Folder 3 Alfred And Helen Tsai, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Ting-Kan, Dairen, Manchuria， January 25, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Ting-Kan, Dairen, Manchuria， January 25, 1928 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 25, 1928 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 Mr. Tsai: Your letter of November 14 reached me shortly before the Christmas season but just when the rush connected with the closing of the fall term was most heavily upon us, making it difficult, if not impossible, to keep up with the daily mail. Since Christmas itself, I have been "on the jump", as we say in American slang, having indulged in a brief trip to Bermuda for needed change and rest and since that time trips to Chicago and New York in the interests of the alumni and the school. Just now I am beginning to see a bit of daylight ahead, the accumulated work has been gradually disposed of. Let me thank you for the most friendly sentiments contained in your good letter and still farther, and most especially, for your wonderful Christmas gift. I am still trying to figure how best I can use that beautiful silk which seems a bit too good to be used for ordinary purposes and which breathes so definitely of your generosity and friendly good will. But please don’t ever feel that you are under obligations to me in any material way, for you have made plain enough in many ways your confidence and esteem, and that is all that I could desire or wish. Helen continues to go on her even and satisfactory course and by another year should be able to take her place in any of the best of our schools with every prospect of standing among the leaders. I am still a bit puzzled as to the school to select but am giving the matter as careful attention as I possibly can so as to make no mistake, if a mistake can be avoided, in reaching the final decision. Alfred’s case troubles me greatly, for I confess that the boy doesn’t seem even yet to show signs of developing the more serious purpose and those evidences of maturity which a boy of his age ought to be showing in some respects, at least. His standing in his studies has been anything but good. He apparently has no appreciation whatever of the value of money and has to be checked constantly and pretty rigidly at times in this respect, and he seems disposed to center the larger part of his interest in the superficial and showy things of life rather than the things that are permanently worth while. Of course he is young still, and I have no doubt that he will outgrow in due time his present weaknesses, but I confess that I had hoped that we would be able to see more evident signs of the desired improvement earlier than this. I wrote him only a few days ago that his last term report indicated clearly that he could not hope to hold the pace here at Phillips Academy next year unless there was a tremendous improvement between now and the end of the current school year. I shall do everything I can, of course, to encourage him, and Helen has always joined me heartily in this effort. I have followed out your instructions about the books and have secured for your two children all of those listed in your letter. I also added to the list, feeling sure that in doing so I was carrying out your wishes, two or three standard English Classics which I felt that they ought to have and which I believe they will enjoy. These were given them in the form of Christmas presents from their home. I also carried out your wishes in regard to the extra money for Christmas, though Helen insisted that she did not need it at the time. The $10.00 which you wished me to give Alfred on his birthday was sent him just recently, a bit too late for the actual birthday, I regret to say, owing to my absence from town, but not too late, I am sure, to prove welcome to him. Again let me thank you, and most heartily, for your all too generous Christmas gift. Please accept for yourself and all the members of your family circle my heartiest good wishes for a truly happy and prosperous New Year. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Ting Kan https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/247fdbb7a1bf54ff1c77294fc0d27f30.jpg 09f66ad0d006873f328deb9aa42faf9b 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 4604, 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 M.T. Liang, Tientsin January 28, 1925 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin January 28, 1925 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 28, 1925 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 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Liang: It was mighty nice of you to send me the New Year's greeting which reached me in the form of our little card only a day or two ago. China seems a bit nearer to us in these later days than it did in times of old and we have followed with interest and some anxiety the constant and to us almost undecipherable shiftings in the political scenery of your big country. I do hope that out of all this turmoil will come stability and new strength and dignity to the nation. We are passing through a typical New England winter now, a bit delayed in coming but full of snap and snow now that is here. My Chinese wards are all in good health and spirits and will return I hope to their home land when the proper time comes better qualified because of the American life and work to aid in solving the big problems that confront you. My heartiest greetings and all good wishes to you and yours for the new year. Believe me. Ever sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns M.T. Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e7f5ebbf0fd801885db7f18da891d93b.jpg 0585120a365ffff3a9411f67178910ab 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 4604, 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 M.T. Liang, Chinese Delegation, Washington, D.C. December 21, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Chinese Delegation, Washington, D.C. December 21, 1921 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 21, 1921 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Liang: Many thanks for your good letter. I am sorry now to have bothered you unduly. Just about an hour after I sent my message to you, Mrs. Chen called me on the telephone from Boston. She had almost beaten her message to this section. After a discussion of the situation, it was decided that she and her husband would come to Andover the next morning and go with me to Northfield that afternoon, as I was due there for a preaching engagement on the following day. We had rather a hard trip, but this was largely forgotten the next morning when Mrs. Chen and her sister met, so unexpectedly to the latter, and had a beautiful day together. The Chens left for New York that night. I have urged them strongly to return for our Christmas festivities. Mrs. Chen apparently wishes to do so if her husband consents, and I hope he can be persuaded, for her presence here will mean everything to Mary and not a little to the rest of us. We are still looking forward greatly to your own visit. There are several problems connected with the youngsters that I am anxious to talk over with you person; and I am sure that it will mean very much to Mr. Sun and the other parents involved if you can bring them, when you return to China, the latest and first-hand reports of the condition and doings of their youngsters. With sincerest greetings and good wishes for the holiday season, believe me always, Faithfully yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns M.T. Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b7a90468461ff4342591ad7e0d0cfc38.jpg e76f23c51b94aeff44f6f0e3fa62b5f1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 27 Folder 3 Alfred And Helen Tsai, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Alfred Tsai, Stearns School, Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, January 28, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Alfred Tsai, Stearns School, Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, January 28, 1928 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 28, 1928 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 Alfred: I do congratulate you, and heartily, on your good marks for the past two weeks. This record seems to show clearly what I had already believed to be true; namely, that you have plenty of ability to do your work with good results if only you will exert yourself. My only fear is lest you may have neglected your studies for so long as to preclude the possibility of your admission to Phillips Academy next fall, though I do hope most earnestly that this will not prove to be true. Faithfully yours, Alfred Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d6d5c1b87c663b2eac4ae8a37b371967.jpg a49994d07b8e5ca7119443f37bb3b520 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 27 Folder 3 Alfred And Helen Tsai, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass. , January 24, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass. , January 24, 1928 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 24, 1928 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 Helen: Thank you for your good letter of January 22. The reason that you and Alfred have heard so little from me lately is that I have been almost constantly traveling about since Christmas day. I left for a short trip to Bermuda right after Christmas, returning just as the school was opening, and immediately after that was forced to start for the West to be gone nearly a week. As a matter of fact, I have had only two or three days in Andover since my return and have been fairly buried in work. I am dreadfully sorry that I was not able to get Alfred’s birthday check to him on time, but I am sending it today. I hope he will be able to stand the strain and still rejoice in the receipt of some extra cash. I will also see that you get your January allowance. If I don’t find it possible to take it over to you in person. I am glad that you are finding the winter term such a happy one. This has certainly been an unusual winter, so far as weather and temperature are concerned. With all best wishes, believe me Ever sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Helen Tsai https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7e19fc9b5ef3a739f9029cee49fa9f70.jpg 10aac64796953be149d1517f54ce86aa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 27 Folder 3 Alfred And Helen Tsai, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Gemma Willard (Mrs. Daniel B.) Nye, South Weymouth, Mass., January 23, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Gemma Willard (Mrs. Daniel B.) Nye, South Weymouth, Mass., January 23, 1928 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 23, 1928 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 Mrs. Nye: Thank you for your note, and don’t apologize, please, for your delay. I am glad that you decided that you could conscientiously accept that check. It is little enough, and I know from past experiences that our good Chinese friends are more than desirous of reimbursing us for all financial and, so far as practicable, other outlays we make in behalf of their children. It was some time before I could bring myself to charge anything when these appealing youngsters were in my own home, as they were for years, but their presence invariably involved expense, and to an extent which my limited means would not honestly justify. I simply had to come to the point of trying to figure out what that expense actually amounted to and charging it to their accounts, making clear to the parents concerned the why and wherefore of it all and receiving from them in turn the heartiest approval and endorsement. Where the youngsters dropped in on me for a day or two here and there, as they often did, I still preferred to allow them, this privilege gratis, something that I should have liked to do immensely at all times, had I been a man of means. Where they stayed for definite times, the charges were imposed on a basis, as nearly as I could figure it, which involved only the additional expense incurred by their presence. I could well understand that, if you were reimbursed for all of the actual expenses you have incurred in behalf of the Tsais, the $100.00 which you received from me recently would not begin to cover everything. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Gemma Hillard Nye https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/17eb8e4ab7415db4b5886ae81de9cb19.jpg bb048dab1ff856d548c26e51540923a3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 27 Folder 3 Alfred And Helen Tsai, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass., January 10, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass., January 10, 1928 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 10, 1928 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 Helen: Thanks for your good note of January 9. I have been back here only a day or two and hence have had little time to do anything but clean up my desk. I am sorry you let Alfred have the suitcase, for I have not been able to find it as yet, although I telephoned to Mont Vernon asking that it be returned at once if Alfred had it there with him, which I suspect to be the case. As I am planning to leave for the West the latter part of this week and will need the case badly at that time, I hope to be able to find it before then. Yes, the silk arrived only a day or two ago. It is lovely. I shall write your father at an early opportunity expressing my deep appreciation and gratitude. It is just possible that I may be able to drop over and have a word with you before I leave town a day or two hence, though I am afraid that I must wait until later. In the meantime my heartiest good wishes to you for a truly happy New Year. Ever sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Helen Tsai https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5f7e3b87e274ddd82450ee654b02d3b2.jpg c89427c6c0d34e7afb4dde35090f657c https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2532fcbd00cd346ea7593ab50cf2d0f5.jpg bccd8576269070c1befb3465f68a3c03 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 27 Folder 3 Alfred And Helen Tsai, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Florence Bigelow, Principal, Walnut Hill School, Natick, Mass. , January 9, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Florence Bigelow, Principal, Walnut Hill School, Natick, Mass., January 9, 1928 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 9, 1928 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 Miss Bigelow: On my return to Andover after a brief holiday I find your most interesting letter of December 29 and am glad to learn that my suggestion that you write to Mr. Elliott Speer appears to have proved of help. I should immensely like to have Helen Tsai with you, and for two reasons: first, because I have always felt that the atmosphere and standards of Walnut Hill fit in so well with what I believe a good girls' school ought to sustain and which in these modern days seems so hard to find; and, second, because I do not like to send the girl too far away. Unfortunately, however, her father, in answer to my definite request for information, has stated that he does not wish her to prepare for college but to get the best all-round training that can be had and of a general character. Very possibly she can secure with you all that she could get elsewhere, even if she does not go to college, but in view of the fact that she must do her work through the medium of the English language, a foreign language course to her, I do not like to have her loaded too heavily with the language course regularly required by our American colleges. With only two exceptions, some sixty Chinese boys whom I have guided in their American education carried no Latin on their schedules, and it is my impression that about the same ratio would hold in connection with German. I like very much your suggestion of paying you a visit some time in company with the girl, so that we can see and talk things out for ourselves. If this present weather holds and I can find a spare day and if not early in the spring, I shall endeavor to realize this hope. I greatly appreciate your invitation to me to talk to your girls at one of your vesper services during the year. While most of my speaking engagements are limited to male audiences, I have accepted engagements for a number of years now at the Spence School in New York, but always in connection with other appointments in the vicinity. I finally yielded, after several years of pleading on the part of Mrs. Houghton, to speak at the Knox School this year. Miss Potter at Lasell, too, has been very generous in asking me to go there. This is all preliminary to saying that I am not disposed to shy at though not given to seeking appointments at girls' schools. But frankly I fear that I cannot add any other engagement to my list for the current year, owing to the fact that the extra pressure connected with preparations for our Sesquicentennial which we plan to celebrate this coming May is going to take all of the extra time and strength that I can spare. Perhaps at some later date you will be good enough to extend the invitation again and I in a position to accept. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Florence Bigelow