1 10 7 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e73a46fb736851ef57c6c6ae13b48b90.jpg e9f25dbeae77a6f8d5fbda4e5d424afd 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 Annie W. Goodrich, Yale School of Nursing, to Alfred E. Stearns February 15, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Annie W. Goodrich, Yale School of Nursing, to Alfred E. Stearns February 15, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Annie W. Goodrich Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 15, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts My dear Dr. Stearns: I have for some time been intending to write you concerning Miss Sun, though I fear I can not give a very different account than that conveyed in my letter of December 11th. Miss Sun I think is sincerely interested in continuing in the school. On the recommendation of the instructor in Physiology she took a second examination but again failed. Mr. Taft is of the same opinion that you expressed in your letter of December 12th, that it is a matter of lack of effort rather than of intelligence. He made a suggestion which I believe may bear very directly upon her problem, namely that she memorizes rather than comprehends. This would account for her meaningless answers to some of the questions which have greatly puzzled the examiners. Under ordinary circumstances we would have the student repeat the courses in which she has failed. For Miss Sun’s Physiology Mr. Taft has suggested as a better method that she be tutored. This would involve some expense. It would not perhaps be justified unless we are convinced that she can qualify in the other subjects. Miss Sun is very hesitant to have you troubled concerning the expense of tutoring. She feels she will be able to meet this from her allowance as her expenditures are very small. In the next six weeks she will have a particularly heavy program of theory. After careful consideration of the matter it was decided that it would be best to wait until she had completed this period, and if she was able to carry the subject satisfactorily we would then, with your approval, arrange to have her tutored in Physiology. Miss Sun herself has suggested that this be arranged during the summer. Our course, however, is an intensive one extending over twenty-eight months with a month’s vacation each year. I would believe it better if possible for her to have her month free from any such demand. May I assure you that we are not as yet prepared to say that Miss Sun should not continue. I personally am of the opinion that she is quite capable of doing the work, and that if we patiently seek for the means through which she can be effectively assisted that she will eventually complete the course with credit. Trusting that this will be in accord with your own desire Very sincerely yours Annie W. Goodrich Dean Annie W. Goodrich Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/669e20762ba17a16799797503972921c.jpg 711bb5f945d483e7efb828eec8c0ae47 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d5c16bc3d6197c50292d690ce6e03ee2.jpg 9dade4b69bcd204c9a3252bdabb8d513 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 Dean Annie W. Goodrich, Yale School of Nursing February 16, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Dean Annie W. Goodrich, Yale School of Nursing February 16, 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 February 16, 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 February 16, 1929 Dean Annie W. Goodrich 330 Cedar Street New Haven, Conn. My dear Miss Goodrich: The morning’s mail brings me your letter of February 15 and one of the same date from our friend Mary Sun. Needless to say the news conveyed in both letters is not altogether pleasing. I am writing Mary advising her to follow your suggestions and to arrange for immediate tutoring in Physiology, for I agree with you that this should not be postponed until a brief summer vacation. I am assuming that you will be able and willing to recommend a competent tutor for Miss Sun. Mary's father is perfectly capable to bear the expense, and I am sure it is a legitimate one in view of the conditions that confront us at the moment. Mary's record at Yale has been a keen disappointment to me, and I have about given up trying to fathom her mind and purpose. Her father has always been extremely anxious that she should get a college degree in this country from one of our best colleges for women. It seemed very doubtful for several years whether Mary would be able to meet such high standards. I made a special trip to Washington to talk the matter over with Mr. Sze, the Chinese Minister, who is a personal friend of Mr. Sun, and on his recommendation entered Mary in Elmira College out in New York State. She was seemingly unhappy there from the start and floundered pretty steadily in her work. The Dean at Elmira gave me reports almost identical to yours and intimated that Mary had much more ability than she professed or than her achievements indicated. All of this time Mary was constantly pleading with me to be allowed to study nursing. Her father, being an old-fashioned Chinese, could not look upon nursing as a high grade profession. I vigorously advocated the plan to study nursing, however, believing that Mary would be able to do her best under the influence and inspiration of this profession. When she was a member of my household a few years ago, she impressed everyone there with her natural gifts in this direction. I finally succeeded in persuading Mr. Sun that this was the proper thing for Mary to do, and he gave his consent. You can understand, therefore, that it is tremendously disturbing to me to feel that Mary is not doing her best in this particular work for which she claims such a deep interest and in which she unquestionably has talent. Mary's older brother who is at Amherst and who is a sterling follow is as much disturbed over the situation as I am and is inclined to agree with me that if at the end of the year Mary shows that she cannot or will not meet the proper requirements of your school, she should be sent back to China. Anyway, I shall await with keen interest the results of the new arrangement and shall hope most earnestly to hear that Mary io making real progress with the assistance of such outside help as she may be able to secure under your guidance and approval. Very sincerely yours. Annie W. Goodrich Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b02b25dffb47c5c9a64fc5c2ea52154f.jpg 009e029a917a3fae6d701c75f92d43a4 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/39b417050e37d8eb929aa53398c7d110.jpg b47f2e04211a34dd3191e4b8cfeaf627 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 Annie W. Goodrich, Yale School of Nursing, to Alfred E. Stearns April 9, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Annie W. Goodrich, Yale School of Nursing, to Alfred E. Stearns April 9, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Annie W. Goodrich 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 9, 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 April 9, 1929 Dr. Alfred E. Steams Phillips Academy Andover, Mass. My dear Dr. Steams; I have been waiting to write you until I could give you as complete a report as possible of Miss Sun’s grades in the theoretical courses which are particularly heavy during the first six months of the course in nursing. You already know that Miss Sun failed in her course in physiology and psychology and that we were becoming very anxious lest she would be unable to continue in the school. I am happy to write you that although she has failed in another subject, the course in orthopedics, on the whole she has very definitely improved her grades and has been most earnest in her effort to make good. I will enclose a list of the subjects with the grades that she has made. She has now begun her clinical experience in one of the medical wards and the report is entirely favorable. I am planning in the immediate future to confer with Miss Sun and shall present to her our conclusion as to the desirable program in her case. After careful consideration of Miss Sun’s general standing, we believe that it would be best to allow her to continue with her clinical experience, not attempting for the present to make up the work in which she has failed. We believe it very possible that her clinical experience may be of assistance to her in taking the course in orthopedic conditions and possibly in physiology. She can repeat the latter course and the course in physiology with the incoming class in the fall. What we should have to ask her to do would be to make up the clinical experience lost by the additional time required for the theoretical work. I trust this arrangement will commend itself to you as equitable and advisable. I think we have every reason to believe that Miss Sun will carry on the course creditably. She has really done much better than I dared to hope she would when I last wrote you. Believe me Very sincerely yours, Annie W. Goodrich Pre-Clinical Grades Chemistry C Principles and Practice C Anatomy 75 Ear, Nose, Throat B Physiology F Dietotherapy 94 Bacteriology D Materia Medica C Psychology 45 Dermatology B plus History of Nursing *Passed Orthopedics F Drugs & Solutions D Eye 85 Miss Thatcher ) Miss Hodgman ) 80 Pathology *Passed Nutrition and Cookery 72 *Students are listed either as Passed or Failed by these instructors No definites grades are indicated. Annie W. Goodrich Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/db27f77a5c5c7d7b06144cf4335edb2a.jpg d3852544cc2a4f6e22ec23beb30e61a5 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 Dean Annie W. Goodrich, Yale School of Nursing April 12, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Dean Annie W. Goodrich, Yale School of Nursing April 12, 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 April 12, 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 April 12, 1929 Dean Annie N. Goodrich 330 Cedar Street New Haven, Connecticut My dear Miss Goodrich: I am very grateful to you for your cheering letter of April 9, which brings me really about the first encouraging word I have had of Mary Sun and her work for the past few years. My impression is that Mary will do distinctly better when she comes to the practical side of the work than she has been able to do with the more distinctly scholastic side of it. I am fully in accord with your suggestion as to how Miss Sun may best make up her deficiencies and go on with her course. I shall take great pleasure in passing on to Mary’s father the cheering news that your letter contains. Very sincerely yours. A2S/C Annie W. Goodrich Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/427501c67b6500d532822345f8583ca6.jpg 2830304d00640dc5806212f31eb9fc40 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 1930, 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 Secretary to Alfred E. Stearns to Dean, Yale School of Nursing, April 14, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Dean, Yale School of Nursing, April 14, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Madam: Dr. Stearns has asked me to inquire from you the date of Miss Mary Sun’s graduation from the Yale Nursing School. Miss Sun’s father is planning for her to return to China this summer, and in order to plan for her transportation, it is necessary for us to have the date of her school’s closing. Very truly yours. Secretary Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Secretary to 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 14, 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 Annie W. Goodrich Mary Sun secretary to Dr. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f5f7192d132fa26b70c472470149d429.jpg 88d7dd73b03fc24d6c727fa81d2c3a51 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 1930, 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 Annie W. Goodrich, Dean, Yale School of Nursing, to Alfred E. Stearns, April 17, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Annie W. Goodrich, Dean, Yale School of Nursing, to Alfred E. Stearns, April 17, 1930 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns: In reply to your letter through your secretary in relation to Miss Sun’s graduation, may I say that Miss Sun does not complete her course until February 1931. Furthermore she will not receive her degree until the following June at the regular Yale Commencement exercises. The University desires whenever it is at all possible that the students should receive their degrees at this time, and the School of Nursing very much prefers to have them do this. In case Mr. Sun desires his daughter to return to China during the vacation months, I think I should also inform you that our vacation periods extend over a month only which would not enable her to make the trip, nor do I believe in her case particularly it would be advisable to give her an extended leave of absence. You will be, I am sure, glad to know that on the whole Miss Sun is doing very well. She has made up all but one of her deficiencies, and in the practical field she compares well with the other students. I have recently returned from a trip to the Orient. I had hoped that Mr. Sun would get in touch with me while in Peiping, as I understood his daughter had written him, but such was not the case. If it seems imperative that Miss Sun should return to China during the summer we would try to arrange for an absence of two months but, because of the interference with her class work, I believe a longer period would be quite impossible. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Annie W. Goodrich Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 17, 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 Annie W. Goodrich Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8c82624a7c8a29dbce2b9d5b9906460a.jpg 62e4e662e9755206a9313214211cf587 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 1930, 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 Annie W. Goodrich, Dean, Yale School of Nursing, April 19, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Annie W. Goodrich, Dean, Yale School of Nursing, April 19, 1930 Relation A related resource My dear Miss Goodrich: Thank you for your letter of April 17 in which you have answered so fully my inquiries about Miss Sun. I do not think that Mr. Sun intended to have his daughter return to China for a vacation only, for he has never done as much as that even for the boys, and as you doubtless know, the daughters of the household do not regularly receive as much consideration as do their brothers. The questions put to me was merely as to the date on which Miss Sun would complete her course at Yale. I am delighted to hear that Mary is doing so well in her practical work, and I trust that the one deficiency which still stands against her in her studies will be cleared away in time. It is too bad that you were not able to meet Mr. Sun when you were in Peiping recently for he is a very unusual man and I am sure would have enjoyed meeting, as you would have enjoyed meeting him. If I had known that you were to be in Peiping, I would have been only too glad to write Mr. Sun myself. One simply cannot trust Chinese in matters of this kind, as I have long ago discovered, and I have no doubt that the daughter for some reason, probably known only to herself, may have decided not to write at all. Perhaps I am unfair in this suspicion but from experiences of my own it is a natural one. Again thanking you for your helpful letter, 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 April 19, 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 Annie W. Goodrich Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun