1 10 129 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8523a7c374f6945ccd3a5c10fe4abba4.jpg 3f43e283e14e3bee45ab5f9a08674b62 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 September 30, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin September 30, 1929 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Thank you so much for your good letter of September 6. I am forwarding the copy of this letter to Charlie as suggested, and am urging him again to do his best to overcome his disappointment and make the most of the opportunities that he still has for increasing his efficiency for his future life work. From the tone of Charlie's letters, he has already accepted the situation with remarkably good sense and fortitude and I have been very proud of him for this reason. I do hope, however, that the opening in the London field will materialize, for I am sure that not only would Charlie give an excellent account of himself in such a position, but that he would gain much that would be of distinct value to him in his later career. Trusting that you may continue to gain health and strength until these have been re-established once more at their best levels, and with kindest 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 September 30, 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 C.Y.Sun Charles 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/28483cfdb013b0af257ab7a72affb795.jpg 646aafece4a5538c08519ce2e0297ab9 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 February 28, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin February 28, 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 28, 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 26. 1929 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun: I am writing to acknowledge the receipt, through the National City Bank of New York, of the sum of $4.000.00 from you which I am placing to the credit of the account, of Charles, Tom, and Mary in equal amounts. The reports received from the boys thus far this year have been highly gratifying. Mary's record still troubles me, and I have had some very frank correspondence with her dean at the Yale Nursing school to discover, if possible, just where the trouble lies. Apparently Mary finds some of the subjects which she has to study in connection with her work very difficult, though she seems perfectly competent to handle the practical end of her tasks. Mary herself feels that she will be able to improve her work as she becomes better acquainted with the subjects on her schedule, and I am hopeful that this will prove true and that I shall be able, therefore,to send you more encouraging reports before the year is over. with kindest personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours. AES/c C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bc24c23081a1c11e45bbe92063c878f5.jpg 437a648fbd7e74eeeb4a5a0d4041fe31 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 April 12, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin 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 Mr. C. Y. Sun 144 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun, I have just received a most interesting and cheering letter from the Dean of the Yale Nursing School in regard to Mary’s work and recent progress. While Mary is still finding some difficulty with one or two of her subjects, the Dean reports that she has done distinctly better of late, and even better than she herself had supposed would be possible. She feels very much encouraged, therefore, as to Mary's future, and assures me that she takes great pleasure in sending this distinctly better report. I am passing this on to you since I know how keenly you will appreciate the news. I have also written Mary, congratulating her and expressing the hope that she would be spurred to still greater effort and achievement. With kindest regards and trusting that by this time your health is greatly improved, believe me Very sincerely yours. AES/C C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/50da6b720c0a0e08917ef20338c30dcf.jpg 193546c9b805797fcc4da2dec8d18fe2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Telegram from Sun, Shanghai, to Stearns June 11, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Sun, Shanghai, to Stearns June 11, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource (C.Y.)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 11, 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 Shanghai June 11 1929 NLT STEARNS PLEASE TELL CHARLIE WAIT AMERICA TILL ARRIVAL MY LETTER BRINGING HIM GOOD NEWS SUN 632AM C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/211e500fd2f4f2dea16c3f1f76589ce2.jpg f252e74eec8a687ea93b52f0d9a7f5e1 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 Telegram from Sun, Shanghai, to Stearns June 14, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Sun, Shanghai, to Stearns June 14, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource (C.Y.) 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 14, 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 Telegram Relation A related resource SHANGHAI JUNE 14 1929 NLT STEARNS PHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER (MASS) PLEASE TELL CHARLIE TAKE SUMMER COURSE GENERAL SECRETARIAL WORK INCLUDING SHORTHAND TYPEWRITING BEST REGARDS SUN C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/fd245311e299b2f569f2095f672964aa.jpg 46441fe95a8070e6701ec2612837d59b 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 Telegram from C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to A.E. Stearns June 15, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to A.E. Stearns June 15, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 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 Telegram Relation A related resource Received at B19B N 18 4 EXTRA SHANGHAI JUN 14 VIA ANDOVER MASS JUN 15 1929 A E STEARNS 94 HEADQUARTERS AMHERST COLLEGE PLEASE TELL CHARLIE TAKE SUMMER COURSE GENERAL SECRETARIAL WORK INCLUDING SHORTHAND TYPEWRITING BEST WISHES SUN 955A C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c447660d26d12e0b16570c506363a185.jpg aa6425219989f44047b39214d40e227a https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/765b54276da1a05927f25fa538f5f73e.jpg 94dd4ca2f226921d53616d554e5c2700 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns May 24, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns May 24, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y.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 May 24, 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 Dr. Stearns, I wrote you a little time ago and made mention of being encouraged about Mary through a letter I received from an entire stranger. I sent you a copy of this letter. But now I am very much more encouraged by your kind letter of the 12th. April with the cheering news it brings from the Dean of the Yale Nursing School. It is also, as you say, a good sign that Mary herself feels encouraged at her progress. It was also very kind of you to write a special letter to Mary to help her to further effort and greater achievement. Charlie wishes to come home, but I prefer that he take a post-graduate course and specialise in some line so as to fit him for work in China where the struggle and competition is now so keen that it will be very hard on Charlie unless he has qualifications along some special line. This is also the opinion of our late Minister to Washington Dr. S.K. Alfred Sze who has written Charlie to that effect, with regard to the special line Charlie might take up, we suggest law, economics, government administration, or diplomacy, and if he takes a special course in one of these it will go a long way towards fitting him for a position when he returns to the changed life and conditions be will find in China to-day. We would naturally like to see Charlie here but, looking to his future life and work, there is no doubt of the great advantage of taking a special or post-graduate course, and this would be a fitting conclusion to his educational efforts in America. This letter is written from Shanghai where I am trying to regain my health and strength, after my illness, and while progress is slow I am hopeful that soon I shall be in better shape. Dr. & Madame Sze are in Shanghai and have told me a lot about the children and of how very kind you are to them. I do appreciate all you have done and are doing for my children and would again thank you for all your kindness. With best wishes, I remain, Very sincerely yours, P.S. In case my letters arrive too late and Charlie is bent on coming home there is no course open but for you to kindly supply him with the necessary funds the same as you did for Arthur. I am just ordering a remittance of Gold $4,000-through the National City Bank of New York, London, and this remittance should reach you in July. 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/54946bc9a83fc67db71bc0283a930d88.jpg f9e37785fb48ae39e5669b70a33d59b0 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 Cable from C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Stearns September 5, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Cable from C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Stearns September 5, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y.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 September 5, 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 Telegram Relation A related resource 9B X 20 CABLE F SHANGHAI SEP 5 1929 NLT PHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER (MASS) TELL CHARLIE MISSION TEMPORARILY POSTPONED CONTINUE STUDY DIPLOMACY AT COLUMBIA AS YOU TWO DECIDED CYSUN 725 AM C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns