33 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/05337106472b474c96ced222783aeb47.jpg 9160539e02117d4c70c09b62c4d9714f 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 Ernestine French, Elmira College June 3, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Ernestine French, Elmira College June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 1926 Miss Ernestine French Secretary, Elmira College Elmira, N. Y. My dear Miss French: Thank you for your good letter of June 1. I do appreciate more than I can tell you the careful thought you have given to Mary Sun’s problem, and I am very grateful. Mary’s present school closes today, and I have been able to make temporary provision for her at the Sea Pines School at Brewster, Mass. It is just possible that, if this arrangement works out well and Mary is happy there, it may seem wise to allow her to stay through the summer session and give up the Cornell University plan. I have written Mr. Sze fully about this and shall await further word from him before deciding. In the meantime, I am none the less grateful for all your generous efforts in my behalf. Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Ernestine French https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e35fa4b82c821452e246622948a57066.jpg 4c555b3d31044700bca9a65f0cb0c998 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 Carlie Mallett, Elmira College June 3, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Carlie Mallett, Elmira College June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 1926 Miss Harlie Mallett Registrar, Elmira Co1lege Elmira, N. Y. My dear Miss Mallett: I am enclosing a check for $5.00 which I understand is the proper registration fee for my ward, Mary Sun, who hopes to enter Elmira College this coming fall. The application blanks which you sent me are being filled out and will be returned to you shortly. I am able to send herewith the one covering the recent work at Whittier School. That covering the Abbot Academy connection and the admission blank No. 1, to be filled out by the applicant herself, will be sent to you as soon as I can secure the information desired. Very sincerely yours. Carlie Mallett Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a15a3e592ba4dd51da53f5e1c800b415.jpg 44682ff7217dd21202690abcc5a6947d 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 Carlie Mallett, Elmira College, to Alfred E. Stearns May 24, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Carlie Mallett, Elmira College, to Alfred E. Stearns May 24, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Carlie Mallett Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 24, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource May 24, 1926 Principal Alfred E. Stearns Phillips Academy Andover,Massachusetts Dear Mr Stearns, I am enclosing some blanks which I should like to have filled out, in so far as possible, for Miss Mary Sun, whom, I understand from President Lent, is to enter Elmira College next September. Sincerely, Carlie Mallet Registrar Carlie Mallett Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/be1b5410994cf4d732cc2bcf74201c61.jpg 77c19924d45fac80e040aef2c46ab37b 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 Telegram from A.E. Stearns to S.K. Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. June 2, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from A.E. Stearns to S.K. Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. June 2, 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 2, 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 2, 1926 Andover Mass. Chinese Legation, Washington D.C. Please await receipt of letter mailed today before closing Itheca arrangements for Mary Sun A.E.Stearns 6/2/26 sent 10:40 AM Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4f440ae47ed913d27111592f0517b394.jpg 9154d5286b9b4d84ca53ebaf9b8af5f7 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2cbbefdf1604d908b74e97b70fd1a92d.jpg 43e4ab7ed4b26c17f7d70b992e56be9d 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 2, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. June 2, 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 2, 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 2 1926 Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze Chinese Legation Washington D. C. My dear Dr. Sze: Since my last letter to you, I have been giving further and some anxious thought to Mary Sun’s plans for the summer, my chief concern being to make satisfactory arrangements for the period between the close of her work at her present school and the beginning of the earner work at Ithaca or elsewhere. Some one with whom I happened to be discussing the matter recommended strongly the Sea fines School at Brewster, Mass., down on Cape Cod and of a somewhat unusual and distinctly good atmosphere. I have known of the school for years and have always heard it very highly spoken of, and at one time I had even considered it seriously as perhaps the proper school for Mary. When this last suggestion was made. it occurred to me that I might be able to persuade the Principal, Miss Bickford, to take Mary for a limited time, and I at once got in touch with her by telephone. To my great satisfaction Miss Bickford expressed her willingness to take Mary in at once, although her regular school, session is shortly to close. Miss Bickford happens to be in Boston at present and has agreed to take Mary back with her to school on Thursday of this week. She will keep her there as long as authorized and at a very reasonably rate, $25.00 per week. The more I have thought over the problem, the more I am inclined to hesitate to approve of a summer for Mary in the surrounding which she would naturally encounter at Cornell. I know that these college summer schools invite all kinds and classes and that the problem of supervision and guidance for the individual student may often became a very complicated and difficult one. As the Sea Pines School has a regular summer session, is attractively located on the Cape Cod 8 Shore, and is in charge of a woman of exceptionally fine character and high ideals. I am wondering if, after all, this might not prove the best plan to continue through the summer, assuming, of course, that we find after the first two or three weeks’ test that the place is all I how believe it to be. Since you have been so kind and have gone to so much trouble already in this matter. I do not feel like abandoning at once and altogether the plan you have already proposed, and I should welcome your full approval of the one suggested above before taking any further steps to make it permanently operative. If I had thought of it earlier, I would unquestionably have expressed my preference for it over the Ithaca proposition, which, with all of its attractions, has its distinct drawbacks as well. I really can’t get very enthusiastic over the thought of leaving Mary in a large college dormitory for the summer, regardless of the person who is in charge of it. for I know from experience that college summer schools are generally pretty free and easy affairs and the supervision at best rather casual. Please write me frankly how the suggestions I have made above strike you, and don’t hesitate to criticize them if you have any grounds whatever for doing so. Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/38b9521eafc0e0413c1924f19e35ba07.jpg 0acd7814c0515feda9e32ab4bfa0782d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b6f05ec99b0f247e5881a777ec6380fb.jpg b6dd0bed0c6e654837ac0072f5b3d065 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 Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns May 27, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns May 27, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sao-Ke Alfred Sze Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 27, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource May 27, 1926. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, Principal Phillips Academy Andover, Massachusetts Dear Dr. Stearns: Your letter of May 24th is received. I am very glad to know of the favorable reply you have received from President Lent of Elmira College. I enclose herewith a letter which I have received from Miss French, Executive Secretary of Elmira College. Will you answer her direct so as to save time? I understand that Miss French will go abroad almost immediately after the Commencement Exercises at Elmira. Sage College, mentioned in her letter, is one of the Women’s Dormitories at Cornell. Kenniston House, I presume, is another Women's Dormitory. Mrs. Hespelt, mentioned in Miss French's letter is a graduate of Smith College, and the wife of a Professor in Spanish at Elmira College. He has accepted an appointment for the next year at New York University so they have to leave Elmira by July 1st. Mrs. Hespelt was recommended to me by Miss French three years ago to look after the oldest Miss Tsao. About a month ago two of Miss Tsao's sisters arrived and are at present staying with Mrs. Hespelt. We have not succeeded in finding another member of the faculty at Elmira College to take the two Misses Tsao, so I hardly think it will be possible to find a suitable member of the faculty to take in Mary. We have decided to spend our summer in Ithaca and have taken the Phi Delta Theta House. But we can not move into the House until about June 18th. If Mary cares to, she can live with us after the 20th, - that is, if she does not care to go and live at the Kermiston House. I am leaving here on the 9th for Ithaca to attend my 25th Class Reunion. I hope to visit Elmira while I am up in the northern part of New York. Please return Miss French’s letter to me. Yours sincerely, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ba38ca0fd5c2f9d23b4491265776bc39.jpg 4317062ef887d4d6b943f67c7212fcc0 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/689f6464f202560e4703252b6991082a.jpg e1626352ce28fbeec598e8ffa131d2e3 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 Faith Bickford, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass. June 7, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Faith Bickford, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass. June 7, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 7, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource June 7, 1926 Miss Faith Bickford Sea Pines School Brewster, Mass. My dear Miss Bickford: I have just received a note from the Register of Elmira College relating to the admission of Mary Sun. and it reads as follows: "According to the papers that you sent us in your letter of May twenty-fifth, Miss Sun have 14 1/2 units to offer for entrance. If she can make up one-half unit of intermediate algebra she should have sufficient units and the required subjects for admission.” This gives us a good idea. I think, of what Mary will have to do in the way of tutoring this summer, but as her school work to date has been more or less broken and not regularly along college preparatory lines, I am sure that she should continue work this summer in English, at least, and possibly in French or History. The stress, it seems to me, should fall on the Algebra first and English second. Possibly this will be enough. It is never possible for me to tell exactly from Mary’s letters what her inner feelings are. A letter received from her this morning: conveys the news that she is more lonesome than ever before, but whether that is a fact or not, I can’t say. In any case, I am confident that within a few days her tone will change and her reaction be more normal. Further, from a letter I have just recently from her father in which he expresses the earnest hope that Mary can be located for the summer in a Christian home and under Christian influences, I am sure that he would be better satisfied to have Mary stay through the summer with you than to attempt the suggested contact with the Cornell Summer School at Ithaca. For that reason I am very hopeful that you will find a wholesome and friendly reaction on Mary’s part, if indeed such is not already in evidence. I think I can pretty safely promise you that Mary will stay with you through the summer. The moment I have more definite word from the Chinese Minister at Washington, I will wire you. In the meantime, I appreciate your forbearance and cooperation in this somewhat complicated case. Mary has written me that she needs a blanket and a jacket of some kind. If this is the case, I shall, of course, be glad to authorize the purchase of these articles and will send a check for the same the moment the bill is received. Mary has also submitted her proposed correspondence list, a rather long one, and yet perhaps not unnaturally so. In the cases of one or two of the Andover girls named I hardly know what to say. If I decline to include them on the list, I am afraid there will be added cause for talk; on the other hand, they represent sources from which some of my troubles in the past have come. On the whole, I imagine it will probably be better to approve the list tentatively and reserve tire right to reduce it later. I have written to Mary, but if you think my position is not correct, please tell me so very frankly Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Faith Bickford https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/acad19445e9e5e1e52e69053bf02171d.jpg a1b41dda8d96569b99befe1f71c7ce1d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1fd20474db52103790d10e80296312bd.jpg 35c0c05837d30cc92c2195cec8ed5c1c 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 A.L. Merrell, MIT, to Dr. A.E. Stearns June 4, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from A.L. Merrell, MIT, to Dr. A.E. Stearns June 4, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource A.L. Merrel Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 4, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dr. A.E. Stearns, Dear Sir: I regret to write you that, in view of the unsatisfactory record of your ward, A.K. Sun, he is not recommended for the degree of Bachelor of Science. The Faculty will, on petition from him, inform him of the further requirements for his graduation. Secretary. June 7 1926 Mr. A. L. Merrill, Secretary Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass. My dear Mr. Merrill, I am sorry indeed to learn that Arthur Sun has again failed to meet the requirements of the Institute for his degree. I shall, of course, be glad to learn what will still be required of the boy to permit him to obtain this goal, which I happen to know his father very earnestly cherishes for him. Frankly, I have never quite been able to decide whether Sun’s failure to make a better record with you is due to lack of ability or lack of the earnest effort that should have characterized his work. Very sincerely yours A.L. Merrell Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/530a4e0f464c9a12c796ff27ef85d5c8.jpg b27092415986182b4ce97b5e5c59a146 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0fc83af54b7e2bcb5c0e357d5daa62b1.jpg 266d029bff7f5e7b141a1849c1e5558f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 30 Sun Siblings 1923-1926 Folder 1, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass. June 7, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass. June 7, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 7, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource June 7, 1926 Miss Mary Sun Sea Pines School Brewster, Mass. My dear Mary Thanks for your note received this morning. Of course I know only too veil that you are bound to be a bit lonesome at the start with new surroundings, new faces, and new contacts. All of us have to through that. What I do feel is that, with such surroundings and facilities as you have there at Sea Pines, you ought in a short time to be happier than in any other piece I can think of. Anyway, don’t pass judgment too soon, for we must plan something for the summer and the summer work, and I don’t know where we could do better than at Sea Pines. The Elmira authorities have written me that they will give you almost enough credits on your work to date to assure your admission to the college in the fall. They will require you, however, to do some more Algebra during the summer and strongly advise further work in English and possibly one or two more subjects. Algebra first and English second, however, seem to be the prime requisites. By all means get the blanket if that is necessary, though, unless you are to be there during the summer, it would seem to be rather heavy expense for a month only and it is just possible that Miss Bickford may be able to arrange for you to rent for the time being certain bedding you require. Ask her direct what you ought to do, and tell her that I will gladly meet the expense of the blanket if she says it is the proper thing to do and will kindly order one for you at once. Of course the same thing applies to the jacket. Ask Miss Bickford to authorise in writing, so that I can have the record of the purchase of those articles, and then I will, of course, pay for them. I have just this morning received a note from the secretary of Boston Tech, telling me that Arthur will not secure his degree this year. I haven’t heard this from Arthur yet, as he told me only last week that he still hoped that he would graduate. This is altogether too bad, and I hardly know what to think or do about it and I am afraid your father will be bitterly disappointed. No doubt Arthur will come out here soon to talk matters over with me. If so, I am going to suggest that he run down to Brewster and have a little visit with you there, since the Technology graduation is not to be. I am signing and returning the correspondence list, as requested, though I must warn you again not to spend too much time in writing letters to your friends. I mean by that that you must not allow correspondence of this kind to interfere with your regular work. By all means keep in touch with your good friends, but don’t feel that you have got to write them every two or three days. Very few people do that even to the best friends they have in the world, and if they are good friends, they, themselves, would be the first to object if they felt that the correspondence was interfering with the best progress of those they liked so much. With all good wishes, believe me Faithfully yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ca0aef70d0601138615a78c07bc7e8d1.jpg 0c5f0761bd80d33d94e91d58c59fa489 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a12c01959e1e2ad1d474305de46a8039.jpg 8b176b4f432fde404f224fc42ee45b3e 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 Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass., to Mr. Stearns June 4, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Sea Pines School, Brewster, Mass., to Mr. Stearns June 4, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 4, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun