34 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5060df38ef822c55ae3e5760988dd7dd.jpg e9e59008c57074fba18b2651aaf21ba8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings September-December 1926, 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 Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass., October 27, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass., October 27, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: Your two recent letters reached me yesterday and today. I brought a check over to the office this morning to send you in answer to your first letter and found your second one awaiting me. This latter brings good news indeed. I think you are undoubtedly wise to accept Mr. Winsor’s offer though I am not at all sure that it will prove to give you the kind of a job you want for the entire year. Anyway, it will be a valuable experience and will no doubt give you the opportunity to study other phases of the work in which you are primarily interested and for which you have been especially trained. Further, you are mighty lucky to be able to command a salary. So go at the job good and hard and give it your best. Don’t be afraid to work overtime or do more than is asked of you. The man who seeks and handles of his own volition more than the work that is actually required is invariably the fellow that wins the confidence of his superiors and gets ahead. Keep me posted as to your whereabouts and address and the best of luck to you. Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 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 Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a59f4ff8f936ca6c2060c7388751f4f0.jpg c219dcd63ee909ae814c82f98c4d8943 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings September-December 1926, 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 Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass., October 9, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass., October 9, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: Hearty congratulations! I certainly rejoice that the goal has at last been attained and that the degree from Technology has now to be yours. The one regret, however, that I have now is that you should have been prompted by your enthusiasm to indulge in any foolish expenditures of money, if this is what you have done. Isn’t there yet time to cancel or adjust the order. I have just had a letter from Mr. William Spencer Murray of New York, one of the leading engineers in the country to whom I wrote in your behalf. He tells me that he often comes to Boston and would be very glad to meet you there for an interview in the near future. At his request I am sending him your address, and you will doubtless hear from him before his next visit. He stands about as high in the profession, I imagine, as does Mr. Freeman, so that you would be perfectly safe in following his advice and accepting his suggestions. I have not yet heard from Mr. Freeman, though I have written him, as promised. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 9, 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 Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c39518a9779cfae11272c1e88b0fb7ad.jpg d6e1058cb8a831f7984d9fd3609855a2 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 Arthur Sun, MIT August 12, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, MIT August 12, 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 August 12, 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 August 12, 1926. Mr. Arthur Sun, Technology Dormitories Cambridge, Mass. Dear Arthur: I have your letter of August 10th and am enclosing checks as requested, one for Mr. Mirabelli and the other to you for advance allowance. Please send me the receipts promptly. You have really been dreadfully careless about bills and receipts, although I take extra pains to enclose addressed and stamped return envelopes whenever I send you a check. In spite of this, the receipts frequently do not come back until you have occasion later to write for money. This not only means extra trouble for me, but is distinctly unbusinesslike on your part. For your own sake, if you ever hope to be a success, do try to overcome this carelessness, and be careful and prompt in all matters relating to the handling of money. Tom has applied for admission to Middlebury College and is now tutoring at the Thorn Mountain Summer Camp at Jackson, New Hampshire. Mary is going to Elmira College, and has recently received notice that she is fully admitted. Tom troubles me, as usual. His final report in June with us was wretched, and, though he assured me that it did not represent the real work he had actually done, and that he would prove this on the college examinations, the college returns were equally bad. If he fails to get into Middlebury I am strongly disposed to give him a year in a strict Military School. Otherwise, I really think he ought to go back to China, for he appears to be drifting more and more until I wonder whether we can stop it. As to your job next fall. It seems to me that the best way to get at the thing is to interview some of your instructors there at Tech, who are constantly placing follows in positions such as you seek, and who can tell you far more than I can just how to go to work to find a position. Try this anyway, and then let me know what success you have. I shall be glad to help you in every way I can, but am naturally limited in my ability to do so. I am hoping to start for the lake the last of this week, and be there until school opens next month. If you have occasion to write, however, letters sent to Andover will be forwarded, and in any case, the receipts for the checks enclosed should be returned to the office here, and in the envelope I am sending with them. Ever sincerely yours. Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ae82a369f86f9f9cf0619951379deae4.jpg a10ce3727f2e22e59db67d633940afe6 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8de16bb3923bd8ac6dae4021364a3f14.jpg c770aa0888b0901af0d2e6f37fa30bd6 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 Arthur Sun, MIT June 5, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, MIT June 5, 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 5, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource June 5, 1926 Mr. Arthur Sun '93 Technology Dormitory Cambridge, Mass. Dear Arthur: I am sorry that we have not been able to get together, as planned. four telephone message the other night came after I had gone to bed; so that it was not possible for me to talk things over with you. Mary left for the Sea Pines School at Brewster, Mass., last Thursday. Hiss Bickford, the principal, and her sister, who acts as assistant principal, arc exceptionally fine people and are anxious to do their best for Mary. When Mary found that there was to be a large group of girls there for the summer and that facilities for tennis, bathing, etc, were provided, she became, apparently, quite enthusiastic over the prospect. I had planned to have her there only during the period intervening between the close of her school year at Merrimac and the opening of the Cornell summer session. I can’t help feeling, though, that if Mary finds the surroundings down there congenial, it would be much letter for her to stay there throughout the summer rather than to go to Cornell. She can get at Sea Pines all of the tutoring she will need and, at the same time, enjoy with plenty of girls of her own age the wholesome and invigorating life with all that the seashore offers. I have written to Mr. Sze, explaining matters in full, and I am inclined to believe that he will fully approve of this plan; indeed he has said as much in the letter received from him this morning. I should like, of course, to have Mary present at your graduation, but I do not quite see how I could fairly keep her over for nearly a week for this event with not even the assurance that you were to get your degree. My impression is that the school authorities at Sea Pines would hesitate to encourage her to make the trip back to Boston so soon after starting her work with them, unless we all felt that the occasion was of sufficient significance to justify another exceptional measures. I feel sure that will concur in this opinion. Trusting most earnestly that you are going to be able to clean up all your work at Tech and secure the coveted degree which I know is going to mean so much to your farther as well as to you, believe me with best wishes Ever sincerely yours Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/28b48f8adb6793c6008b8f09f3bcca72.jpg 1a54afe37a6b3bfaf0525ea1ea084af7 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 Arthur Sun, MIT June 8, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, MIT June 8, 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 8, 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 8. 1926 Mr. Arthur Sun 93 Technology Dormitory Cambridge, Mass. My dear Arthur Your latter has just reached me, but I had already heard the bad news from the secretary of the Institute who send me a brief note yesterday. This news I passed on to Mary at Sea Pines in order that she might not plan to take in the festivities, as she had hoped and expected to do. This, of course, has proved a bitter disappointment for us all, and. I really can’t advice you by letter just what you ought to do. My impression, however, in that your father would wish you at almost any cost to fight on until the Technology degree is yours. If you can do this by summer work, go to it. It will be time to talk about a good vacation, if that is necessary, when the decree is actually in your possession. The secretary wrote me that he would advise me later just what steps would be required of you to make up your deficiencies and graduate. I wish you would get wish you would get this information from the authorities in writing and send it on to me; then we will get together and plan how best to meet the retirements, Further, we can get a job for you in the fall perhaps even better than we could earlier. This is about all I can say at present and with my limited knowledge of the actual conditions. Let me know just what the authorities are going to require of you and then I shall be able to advise you intelligently. Very sincerely yours. Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f4729e508256cff1240fa968e33f53d0.jpg 1e85b49703ec38e90ad7c6dc0cab39de Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings September-December 1926, 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 Arthur Sun, MIT, September 17, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, MIT, September 17, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: I have your letter of September 15. I don't know to just what extent I can help you in finding a job, but of course I shall be ready and glad to do my best. Whether anything can be found that will not require you to sign a fairly long contract is a question. Naturally a firm that takes on a wholly inexperienced man feels that it can hardly afford to give him a job unless it can keep him long enough to insure that the connection shall eventually contribute something really worth while to the organization. That evidently is the reason for the customary two-year contract to which you refer. Very possibly it may be necessary for you to start with a drafting job. That, at least, will give you admission to the inner circles, where it would be much easier for you to press your claims for a job of the kind you especially desire. I should certainly hesitate to turn down a good offer in a drafting department, provided the firm is a good one and is ready to take you on. City officials are generally politicians and change pretty rapidly. For the moment I can’t think of any of my acquaintances to whom I could apply in your behalf, but I shall certainly keep the matter in mind and do the best I can for you. In the meantime, let me hear how you come out in the make-up examination. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 17, 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 Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a896929ea56cea80487c689de6051f87.jpg bec84893b917cc9f5e3d3a0ba50bc75a 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 1624, 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 B. Atwood Robinson, November 15, 1910 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to B. Atwood Robinson, November 15, 1910 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Alfred E. Stearns to B. Atwood Robinson. States Melvin memorial will be placed in library. Will enjoy learning about the history. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 15, 1910 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 November fifteenth 1910. Mr. B. Atwood Robinson Copley Square Hotel, Boston, Mass. My dear Mr. Robinson: The Melvin Memorial has been received and will be placed at once in our Library as suggested. I deeply appreciate your interest in this matter and shall derive much pleasure myself from reading this bit of history to which you have so kindly called my attention. With personal regards, believe me, Sincerely yours B. Atwood Robinson Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cdcaaa7270d0d749048d38118d1cd1c3.jpg 5c1fd7fbad0687f5621fceb09cd2518d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings September-December 1926, 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 Burton Flagg, Treasurer, Abbot Academy, Andover, Mass., December 28, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Burton Flagg, Treasurer, Abbot Academy, Andover, Mass., December 28, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Flagg: Many thanks for your letter enclosing check for $239.00, representing rebate on account of board for the unused portion of the second semester period of the past school year on behalf of my ward, Mary Sun. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 28, 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 Burton Flagg Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4f9776352a0f3d42810f73d340d259d1.jpg fa45441a1b654c525bf37e4e491a234f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January - June 1928, 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 Byron Clark, State Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations (YMCAs) of Vermont, Burlington, April 5, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Byron Clark, State Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations (YMCAs) of Vermont, Burlington, April 5, 1928 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Clark: I have your letter of April 3 and the accompanying blank inquiring about Charles K.H. Sun, a Chinese ward of mine now at Amherst College. I have filled out the blank and am returning it herewith, but I can’t refrain from adding a personal word in Sun’s behalf. Charles Sun is a rare boy, a fine scholar, a perfect little gentleman. and as clean and wholesome as they are made. He comes from one of the best families in China, his father having served during the war as Head of the Chinese Red Cross and as heads of various other philanthropic organizations both before and since the war. Charlie lived in my house for several years while he was in school here, and I know him in consequence pretty intimately and this leads me to recommend him to you almost without reservation. I am sure you would find him a wonderfully helpful member of your force, and I am sure, too, that it would be a splendid thing for your boys to get this intimate and friendly contact with such a clean-cut and wholesome representative of his race. It helps mightily to break down prejudices and that’s worth a good deal in itself. Further, he is qualified to enter actively and enthusiastically into the general activities, athletic and others, of camp life. He is a good swimmer, an excellent soccer player, and a good fellow on the trail. Don’t let him get away from you; at least that would be my advice. Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 5, 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 Byron Clark Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cfdb9a605b5a9599fccaac16637c9730.jpg ff3517f6d0c1d3f4d5f57c9d19c627fb 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 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai June 26, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai June 26, 1930 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 26, 1930 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 26, 1930 Mr. C. T. Sun Chinese Foreign Famine Relief Committee 13 Jinkee Road Shanghai, China My dear Mr. Sun: I have read with the greatest interest your frank and friendly letter of May 27, and thank you heartily for it, and also for the friendly way in which you have accented my perhaps unwarranted suggestions as to Tom and Charlie and their futures. First, let me express my heartiest sympathy with you in the loss of your daughter. I shall say nothing to the children, of course, though as you say the news may naturally filter through to them by way of other channels. I am sorry indeed that you have had to carry this added burden after the load you have carried for so long in behalf of others. The latest plan for Tom, after further talks with him, is that he shall put in the current summer in the special summer school in French held each year at Middlebury College. This is one of the best modern language schools of its kind in this country, and I feel that Tom will be far better off in this old environment where he is so well adjusted than he would be if he were wandering about, or especially located in New York. In the fall he will go to Yale for his post-graduate work, unless, of course, something develops in the meantime to alter the plan by offering a more attractive opportunity elsewhere. It is doubtful, of course, whether I can hope to get him a position in our State Department, but I am willing to inquire of Secretary Stimson, who is a personal friend, and who just possibly may be able to give us some worth while advice. Again my thanks for your very kind and explicit letter, and with warm personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns