36 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0ff72c9865c69378b31f9d9a4696e4da.jpg 9f3252ecf9b40dc226d88333a2ff664c https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a19908ae06953bae9c10d34a05504ba9.jpg f0564822183d721c3f33a51f83ad83cf 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, Tientsin January 5, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin January 5, 1931 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 5, 1931 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 January 5, 1931 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun： I have received and read with the deepest interest your letter of November 8, which as you have explained was delayed in starting from China owing to sickness in your hone. First of all, let me express my heartfelt sympathy with you in the great losses you have recently suffered in your home circle. This must have been a hard year for you. but I am sure that you have faced these new sorrows and borne the added load with that same courage and fortitude which your friends have always noted and admired in you in the past. My sympathy and my best wishes for you all are very deep and very sincere. I have passed on to Mary the good news of her coming return to China, and have told her of your wish that she should make the European trip before she returns and in accordance with your earlier promise to her. There will be ample funds from those which I hold to your credit at the present time to care for all of this extra expense, and I will take steps just as soon as I hear definitely from Mary to have the proper reservations for the journeys made. I assume from your letter that you plan to have Mary return to America from Europe and go back to China by the way of the Pacific route. If I am wrong in this assumption* please do not hesitate to advise me. In order that you may have the financial situation up to date, I am enclosing a statement covering both Tom’s and Mary's recent receipts and expenditures and present balances. Of course, I cannot say what sums they may carry in their personal accounts at the present time, as I have found it necessary since they are no longer in immediate contact with me to furnish them lump sums from time to time to cover their charges and necessary expanses. Further, I have felt that in view of their years it was educationally important that they should develop an increased appreciation of the value of money and sense of responsibility towards it by handling their own accounts for themselves. I have no reason to believe from the expense accounts they have submitted to me from time to time that they have in any way abased this confidence or spent their money extravagantly. Assuring you again of my readiness to aid and help you and your children in any way and at any time up to the limit of my ability, and trusting that in spite of the sorrows of recent months your coming New Year may bring you real satisfaction and even happiness in the contemplation of the fine and permanent services you have rendered to mankind, believe me always, Very sincerely yours C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/de46cd077170fb5c913bc5c1934d6d86.jpg 783345867208c2e766c09d5792695de8 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9124cb1eb25b0444f41b2b47b509aaa7.jpg a6fb74f24c094f3fc98400b6a5f0dd68 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, Tientsin July 15, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin July 15, 1931 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 July 15, 1931 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 July 15, 1931 Mr. C.Y.Sun 44 Cambridge Road, Tientsin, China Dear Mr. Sun: Your very kind and generous letter of June 12 has been received and has given me very great pleasure. Certainly no one could have written in a more kindly vein, and I appreciate very very deeply your unwavering confidence in me and your evident appreciation of what little I have attempted to do for your children. It seems hardly possible that the last of your family have finally passed out of my immediate life and care. Frankly, it seems to me a pleasant thought, and yet I know it is time that they were on their way to larger fields of service and usefulness which I hope and believe they will find in their own homeland. The letter which I have just received from Tom tells me of his meeting with Mary in San Francisco and their plan to sail a day or two later. If they sail as planned, they are well out on the Pacific at this time, eager and excited, I have no doubt, as each new day brings the home land nearer. My good will and best wishes will follow them across the sea and wherever they are during the years ahead. That you will feel that they have profited by their American life and experiences is my earnest hope. Needless to say I shall never forget your many kindnesses to me and your confidence in my judgments and your generous cooperation in every effort put forth in your children’s behalf. It has been a delight to me personally to feel that I could do for the children of those in a foreign. Land what I should love to feel others were doing, if the opportunity had been offered them, for my own children under similar circumstances. This I have tried to do, but I know that I have falled, at times, for short of the ideal I have set myself. Anyway, I am prompted to believe that all of them have come to appreciate more fully in their mature years the necessity for some of the disagreeable restraints and even such slight discipline which occasionally I found it necessary to impose in the earlier days of their American life. Tom has just written me a very beautiful and appreciative letter, Charlie again and again has expressed and shown appreciation, and even Mary the past year or two has, I think, developed an attitude of increasing friendliness. Anyway, I hate to lose them, though I love to think that they are once more in the home land and in touch again with those who love them most. I shall count it a pleasure and a privilege to hear of and from them whenever and if ever they feel disposed to keep me advised of their activities and progress. Within a short time I will send, possibly even with this letter, a statement showing how the financial accounts stand to date. There is a considerable balance in your favor, I am sure, and I am wondering in what form you will prefer to have me remit it to you. Unless I am mistaken the exchange today is far more favorable for the sending of money from America to China than it is for those who are forced to send it the other way. Please let me know your wishes, and I shall be glad to see that they are fully carried out. With kindest personal regards and renewed assurance of my deep and abiding appreciation of the pleasure I have found in uncovering and working for an unseen but highly valued friend, believe me, Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7c59e938927d67dbe27a8902aa1e1042.jpg 228a646b79a6038d67b19b05868ae338 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 30 Sun Siblings 1929, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin July 18, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin July 18, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 18, 1929 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Your most interesting letters of June 7 and 11 have been duly received. Charlie has also written me, enclosing the copy of your letter to me which you sent to him. He seems very much pleased at the prospect, and it seem to me, as an outsider, that the opportunity and experience involved should prove of great value to Charlie in the end. I have already sent Charlie funds to provide for his summer work at Columbia and for the necessary living expenses. I am writing him again this morning, and will be ready to meet him at any time and discuss his further plans. As you probably know, he is taking some shorthand and typewriting work this summer, and I have emphasized in my letter to him the importance of those in view of the special work which he will carry in connection with Dr. Tong Shao Yi's mission. I have heard so much of Dr. Tong in the past that I trust I may have the opportunity of meeting him when he is in this country. It will also be a pleasure to me to aid him and his friends in any way I can while they are in America. With warm personal regards, believe me always Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e5466125a9044ea2840d73d3d384ded0.jpg 16e526994580dfe74dd7b53324d8eb6b 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 1927-1928, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin July 9, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin July 9, 1927 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 July 9, 1927 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. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road, Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Sun: I have your interesting letter of May 31 and am sorry to learn of your recent illness. By this time I trust that you will have recovered completely your normal good health and strength. Arthur and Quincey are planning to start this week, I believe, for the West in order to sail for China the latter part of this month. This, at least, was their last report to me. Quincey telephoned me from Boston only yesterday; so I assume that they have not departed yet. Mary has settled at Ithaca, New York, for the summer to take summer courses at Cornell. She wrote me just yesterday that she was there and had made her arrangements for the summer. Tom hopes to secure some kind of work, and, if not, will probably take a summer course or two at Boston University. Charlie, I think, plans something of the same kind, though he has not written me fully yet just what the ultimate arrangements are to be. Arthur, Charlie, and Mary, together with Quincey Sheh, came out to Andover a short time ago to see me, and I had the pleasure of introducing them at that time to Admiral Tsai, Ting-kan’s two children who happened to be with me prior to joining their summer camps. I hope to send the statement of the acconnts within the next few days. It has been difficult to know just how far I should yield to the request of the children for extra funds to purchase presents to take and send home, but I have assumed that you approved the granting of these requests. Apparently the expenses incident to the actual journey have proved a little heavier than was anticipated at the start by the travelers, for only within a day or two I have been appealed to for extra remittance of this kind. With sincere good wishes and kindest regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/913632b8626d95fc94f8e90f08a5ee9a.jpg 68c47c86f459c474a07449d58ea861b4 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3adcf6a24baa31dfaaeed251915341fd.jpg cbc0d0b238f011008095ca3e94045ef0 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, Tientsin June 22, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin June 22, 1932 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 22, 1932 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 22, 1932 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China Dear Mr. Sun, Your good letter of May 2 was duly received. Shortly afterwards I was advised by the national City Bank of New York of their wish to withdraw at your request and in your behalf the balance of the funds which I have been holding for you here in Andover. I am consequently enclosing herewith the notice from the Andover Bank indicating that my check for $6,328.82 had been cancelled, and the statement from the National City Bank of New York indicating that the amount in question had been paid. You will note that the amount finally remitted is larger by $113.03 than the amount shown on my earlier report. This additional money represents the interest received from our local bank on $6,000. deposited by me in the Savings department on receipt last fall of your request that I should hold your balance here for some time, awaiting further instructions. I am only sorry that I did not feel justified in holding out three weeks longer so that I could have received an additional $50., or thereabouts, due on the next quarter and paid July 1st. Your instructions, however, and the notice from the National City Bank of New York were of such a character that I did not feel that X could properly assume this responsibility; so I sent along what I had with the accommodation noted. I can’t begin to thank you for the clear-cut and illuminating statement that you have given me of the background after the Japanese activities in China. That Japan has been doing seems too incredible almost to believe, and yet the facts are there and speak for themselves. Only a moment ago Professor Forbes, of our Faculty, who was present at the Brown College Commencement, told me an incident which will illustrate the general feeling of the American public towards the Japanese at this time. President Barbour of Brown College had just returned from a trip to the Far Bast and undertook to tell the audience of the exceptionally friendly treatment accorded him by Japanese officials. Forbes says that he misjudged completely the temper of his audience, for his announcement was received in silence and one elderly man was heard to remark; "I guess he doesn’t appreciate what we have come to think of the Japanese since he was last here." Sometimes I wonder whether any of us can truly call ourselves civilized in these strenuous times. Certainly there is a long and difficult road ahead before we have obtained anything that savors of the true brotherhood of man, of which we so casually and glibly talk in our moments of idealism. All the harder, therefore, must those of us who profess more than a lip service to those ideals work for their ultimate attainment. The news of the children is welcome indeed, for I shall always think of them in a very real sense as members of my own family. I am delighted especially to learn that Mary has offered her services for hospital work, service for which there must have been a tremendous demand at that time. Remember me to than all, please, and give them my friendliest and heartiest greetings and good wishes. I rejoice also to learn of your own improved health. With sincere and constant good will and with warmest hope that, even though the children no longer furnish the intimate contacts of old. I may still be privileged to keep in touch with the various members of the Sun family and their doings, believe me with kindest personal regards Very sincerely yours. C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9d5c6afd8dca95dab19cff0cc746756a.jpg 86c57c3d8773fe3f549263eac72c10e6 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 1927-1928, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin June 26, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin June 26, 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 June 26, 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 June 26, 1928 Mr. C.Y.Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China Dear Mr. Sun: Many thanks for your most interesting letter of May 23. You will be interested to know that Mary is already at work arranging for a transfer from Elmira College to the Yale University School of Nursing. I have just written her urging her to see that every detailed requirement of the Nursing School is met to the full and that prompt information be sent them whenever it is requested. I most sincerely feel that this new work is going to change Mary’s attitude towards her work in this country and towards life in general and that it will make possible for her a life of that high and unselfish service to mankind for which your own friends so deeply revere you and which I am sure you most wish to see perpetuated in your own children. I think that we have definitely turned Charlie from any further and foolish thoughts about military training. After all that has been going on in China of late, he must realize, for he was a very sensible head, that the last thing in the world that China needs just now is a military leader. With a legal background, Charlie would be admirably adapted to statesmanship of a high order, for a combination of legal training and Charlie’s high moral standards would prove a tremendous asset in these days of China’s unrest. Tom’s final term report indicates even a little better work this pattern than before, and with this I am greatly pleased. Please remember me most warmly to Arthur and Quincey, and believe me with kindest personal regards always Sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/96aaf4d2bc78bb28e6337d5bcaa6aa98.jpg ecdfb07d6cf4c4353e41851cdd519e0a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 30 Sun Siblings 1929, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin June 27, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin June 27, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 27, 1929 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Thank you for your interesting letter of May 24. Charlie came out to see me day before yesterday, and I met him again by appointment in Boston yesterday noon. On both occasions we discussed very fully the proposal made in your letters to him and to me and plans for his further study. Charlie has been fine about the whole thing, although he is naturally disappointed at having to give up the expected early return to his home. We have talked the situation over very freely together, and I have tried to point out to him just why your objections to the early return seem sound and the undoubted advantages that would accrue to him by further and more specialized study in America. I tried to emphasize the fact that China needed today very keenly men of his ability and character with broad and specialized training in lines that would naturally make them leaders. We have talked over the courses offered by Harvard and Columbia, which seemed to be the best along the general lines you have suggested, and while both of us would prefer Harvard because of the general surroundings and living conditions, it seems to be true that Columbia offers more and better courses in the subjects desired. Anyway, I have asked Charlie to go to New York to consult in person with the Dean of the Graduate School at Columbia in order that we may be sure of our ground. He has already consulted the Harvard authorities. The final decision will probably be made within the next week or two. In any event, Charlie plans to take some type-writing and secretarial courses during the current summer vacation. Again thanking you for your letter, and trusting that the final arrangements may work out to the satisfaction of all concerned, and wishing also and most earnestly for your own early and complete recovery to normal health and vigor, believe me. Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/71f9fc210a930adaf663e1eadd2eda06.jpg 590b1c33332fc899d734eb765919a3d2 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/56b78646c0dcdeaf93c441db561fbdae.jpg f053839ec0f2bb8f2faeb5a8448c90da 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 2, 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, Tientsin June 7, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin June 7, 1926 Relation A related resource June 7. 1926 Mr. C. T. Cun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: Your exceptionally friendly and appreciative letter of May 12 has just reached me, and I beg to express my very sincere gratitude for your kindly sentiments. I must admit that Mary’s case has furnished a difficult and complicated problem, but thanks to the generous help which Dr. Sze has given me, coupled with my assurance of your confidence, I have been able to work out the problem, I think, to a fairly satisfactory conclusion. Within the past day or two I have received assurance from Almira College that Mary will be granted admission credits on the work she has already covered at Abbot and the Whittier School for 14 1/3 points out of the 15 points for admission. It is suggested that she work up some Algebra during the summer to complete the requirement and that, so far as possible, also, she should broaden her preparation in English and possibly French. Just at resent I was trying to work out the best solution for the summer, and I think that I am on the right track. The first plan suggested by Dr. Sze, and highly approved by me, was to locate Mary for the summer in the home of a member of the faculty of Almira College where she would have not only necessary instruction but wholesome influence and proper guidance. The plan fell through at the last minute, as the good woman on whom Dr. Sze had counted for this work decided to pass the summer abroad. No other suitable place or person appeared to be available. Dr. Sze then suggested that Mary might spend the summer at Ithaca, New York, taking work in the Cornell Summer School and living in one of the dormitories reserved, I understand, for girls and over which an officially appointed matron would exercise a certain amount of control. As Dr. Sze advised me further that he, himself, and his family were to spend their summer in Ithaca, it seemed to me that this would perhaps be the best solution of the problem. Frankly, though, I did not quite relish the idea of leaving Mary for the entire summer in a large university town with more or less of a floating and unstable population and subject to the somewhat free and easy influences and ways that are apt to be in evidence under those conditions. I know from experience that the chaperonage provided in university centers and dormitories for girls is often a pretty nebulous thing. One cannot always tell what the strongest influence working on an individual student is going to be. Just after I had tentatively expressed to Dr. Sze my approval of this plan, I was confronted with the problem of providing a place for Mary for the three weeks intervening between the close of her school year at the Whittier School and the beginning of the summer session at Cornell. My own home is in such a turmoil at this time of year, with the commencement season just ahead, that I could not, much to my regret, arrange for Mary to be with me at that particular time. I also hesitated to bring her again in such intimate touch with the influences at and connected with Abbot Academy which had worked so much mischief for us all in the past. Some one suggested the Sea Pines School at Brewster, Mass., a rather unusual school for girls, and which I found had a regular summer session. Friends of mine, who have had their daughters there and who have been wholly concerned about the cultural and Christian influences under which they wished their daughters to come, have spoken to me in the highest terms of this school and its atmosphere. The Misses Bickford, who conduct it, are known to be women of unusually high ideals and character. I called Miss Pickford on the telephone and found to my great satisfaction that she would be willing and glad to take care of Mary for the period in question and that she was even eager to welcome a Chinese girl at the school, believing that her presence would exert a wholesome influence on her own students in whom she has always sought to inculcate more of an international mind. Miss Bickford, herself, happened to be in Boston just when Mary’s school at Merrimac closed; so that the transfer was easily made. Miss Clemons meeting Mary in the city and putting her in Miss Bickford’s charge. I have had a letter from Mary only this morning in which she says that she is very lonesome; but of course that is natural and to be expected, for the first plunge in a new environment is hard enough for anyone, and especially for a foreigner. I shall be greatly surprised if Mary doesn’t find within a short time that the atmosphere at Pines is far more congenial and satisfying than at Whittier. In any case I am strongly disposed just at present to authorize Mary’s continuance at Sea Pines through the summer rather than to take what I feared would be somewhat of a risk by sending her to Cornell. The Sea Pines authorities advised me that a prompt decision will be necessary because their list for the summer is already practically full and in justice to other applicants they must know whether or not Mary is to occupy a place. I have written Dr.Sze about the matter and am inclined to think, from the letter received from him yesterday, that he approves of the plan, although, of course, he doesn’t pretend to know much about the school in question. What I do know is that there is a marked emphasis placed on Christian character and an exceptionally wholesome physical life provided for the pupils, a life which includes sea bathing, horseback riding, tennis, and other outdoor activities. “Whatever the final decision is, I can assure you that it will be the result of careful and prolonged thought and the earnest desire to do only what will prove best for Mary in the end and most nearly in accord with your personal wishing. I hope very much that Mr. Robinson is going to get here before I leave for my summer vacation, though I inferred from a recent letter from Dr. Sze. as well as from a remark which Tom dropped the other day, that he might not appear until early in July. With warm personal regards, believe me 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 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5d4fb7c252952a569ea3ad788fa7ac81.jpg df7dc113e0c014803b8cb1ae5f374446 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/996a2f710fd614e50d8c00b9860154a8.jpg aec37d45e3b6883a045a567731624dca 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, Tientsin March 16, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin March 16, 1932 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 16, 1932 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 16, 1932 Mr. C, Y. SUN 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin. China My dear Mr. Sun: Your letter of January 30 reached my office some time ago, but was held there by my secretary in order to protect me as much as possible from the generous good will of my friends. Many others were treated in the same way during recent weeks of my convalescence, but I am glad to say that the time seems now to have come when I can at least let these good friends know how very, very deeply I have appreciated their friendly good will and how grateful I am to then for their kindly thoughts of me. It was a wholly new experience for me to have to go on the side-lines for a time under the stress of physical disability. Frankly, I don't like the taste of it at all, and while I have many things to be thankful for and am certainly regaining very rapidly my old-time strength, if not adding to it, I must admit that I have been growing increasingly restless at my inability to take hold again and help pull the school team. Lacking a secretary out in the country where I have been staying, it has been almost impossible for me to do justice to the many letters that have come in on me, and I must offer this as my apology for my very tardy expression of appreciation and gratitude for your wholly unexpected and greatly valued Christmas present. Convalescing as I was at the time, and passing a good many of the hours indoors, the robe -though that may not be the proper name) you sent me came at a most opportune time. I have always thought it would be wonderfully comfortable to loaf around in such a garment, and now I have had the chance. Many, many thanks, but chiefly, of course, for the generous and kindly thought that prompted you to remember me at the Christmas season. My thoughts have turned again and again to China and my good friends there during these recent weeks, and I have felt at times that if I were only younger I should be tempted to take an early boat and offer my services to your country. It seems unbelievable that Japan - or the Japanese military group, at least - could have gone so thoroughly insane as to indulge in the orgy of brutality end uncalled for aggression that has so shocked the whole world. One good thing has come out of it, however and that is the increased respect that China and the Chinese have won from the world at large, though that this respect should have had to be won at the expense of proving a nation's ability to fight is a sad commentary on the state of the public mind. Certainly we have far, far to go to attain these ideals which we so easily profess and so easily find a way to ignore when selfish interests control. I do hope that at your leisure you and the children will give me such news as you can from the inner circles, as it were, for it is so difficult to know what to make out of newspaper reports, and I should value more than I can tell you the frank opinions of my Chinese friends who know merand whom I am privileged to know and to trust. Tom has been good enough to write me and I have rejoiced in his letters, especially in his apparent release from the fears he earlier entertained that he would be unable to readjust himself to China and Chinese ways. Charlie, too, has written me occasionally, and his last letter, received only a day or two ago. delighted me greatly for it breathed so clearly his tremendous joy at the prospect of an early return to his home and family. I am so glad you have decided to let him come. He is a rare boy and ought to prove a source of constant strength and Joy to you. I have heard nothing from Mary since her return, and have been wondering whether she had not perhaps found a rare opportunity in the recent developments in China to make use of her ability and training in nursing. I do hope that she will let me hear from her before long. Again thanking you for your many kindnesses, and especially for this lost and most generous Christmas gift, and with greetings and best wishes to all the rest of your family, believe me Very sincerely yours. C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9485330d4acda042dc75379811b08975.jpg c548e1abe1b3dba864571be7e8ab0458 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9ec5effdfe2d2d83a2d35aa8b2c67df6.jpg 26210a653ba02c4f35e7b5c6e28d835e 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/. 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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 March 17. 1928 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: Many thanks for your good letter of "February 22 and for the accompanying copy of year letter to Charlie. I am inclined to share your judgment as to the wisdom of a military course for Charlie. Just why the boy leans that way, I can't understand, for he is anything but a militarist in spirit. He is naturally a scholar, idealistic, and with definite literary gifts. You are absolutely sound in your contention that what China needs today more than well trained generals is men who are trained to fill responsible positions in your government and Courts. Charlie would seem to admirably fitted by nature for this sort of work, and I shall urge very strongly on him the admirability of making that kind of a future his goal. Your judgment as to Norwich University, however, is not quite fair. West Point, of course, stands out preeminently as the best military college in the United States. Outside of West Point there are three or four institutions to which the Government extends aid and over which it exercises a certain amount of supervision because of the high caliber of the work done. Boys graduating from these institutions are granted by the Army definite credits, and many of them take high positions in the Amy and (government service in later life. In this limited group Norwich stands very high although it is a comparatively small institution and not often in the public eye. For a boy unable to gain admission to West Point I know of no institution that could probably give him a better military and all-round training than Norwich. Mary still plods along without much success in her studies and with an evident lack of enthusiastic interest in her work. Every little while I get a distinctly depressed letter from her which prompts me to send her cheering and encouraging words, for she evidently needs to be strengthened in this way in her endeavor. Personally, I can’t help regretting very deeply that it has not seemed wise to you to let Mary take a course at the Nurses Training School at Yale, for example, a plan which has long appealed deeply to her and in which she would seem to have a genuine interest. Evidently, too. She has some natural gifts for this sort of work which, as I intimated in an earlier letter, is coming more and more in this country to be regarded as a high grade profession for women. The fact that Yale University has recently added the course to its regular graduate courses is indicative of the trend of sentiment. Perhaps I am wrong, but I can’t help feeling that Mary’s collage career, beyond the final attainment of a college degree, if she succeeds in reaching that goal, is not likely to prove of any special value to her in her later life. If she were a natural scholar and had been able to hold a higher rank in her studies. I hold a different opinion. I hear little from Tom directly during the college year, but such reports as I get from time to time indicate that he has been giving a good account of himself at Middlebury College. Please remember me most warmly to Arthur who, I trust, is measuring up to your hopes and expectations for him, and believe me with kindest personal regard Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns