1 10 3 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1b482c264819776031f31dd9ab611316.jpg 288ef5a365aab9a528eaf14cf9f34bf8 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d88d57f2b3412254fdbbe8f90e938249.jpg 21e9257ab00fa784296da6410cd9354e 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 1920-1924, 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 Edward H. Chandler, Twentieth Century Club, Boston, September 9, 1920 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Edward H. Chandler, Twentieth Century Club, Boston, September 9, 1920 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Chandler: On my return to Andover from my summer vacation I find your letter of August 23rd. My desk also contains numerous letters, from Chinese friends and others, relating to the arrival in Andover in the near future of the group of Chinese boys and girls who are to be placed in my charge. Mr. M.T. Liang had already written me that one or two boys were to come in this way; but I have only just become aware that the group was to be so considerably enlarged. You may assure your nephew that these boys and girls from the other side of the world will receive my most careful thought and attention. For years I have dealt with Chinese students, nearly a hundred of them at one time or another having been temporary wards or semi-wards of mine, and no individual task connected with my work here at Andover has proved more satisfying or inspiring than this one. Under the circumstances I am ready to assume this new and still larger responsibility with real pleasure, fully as I realize the added burdens and anxiety that the task must impose. It is my present intention to look after the younger members of this group by keeping them, for the first few weeks of their stay at least, under my own roof; but I think arrangements can be worked out that will prove satisfactory. It will doubtless be necessary to allow some of the boys to eat at one of the school boarding houses or at the school dining hall in order that the domestic problem may not become too complicated. The young girl, however, I feel sure can be taken into my own family circle and treated exactly as a member of the family. In any case the parents and friends of these boys and girls may rest assured that the youngsters will have every care and consideration that one who is sincerely interested in their welfare can give them. 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 9, 1920 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Edward H. Chandler https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b73700b58d69b75f14b2ca55719f4009.jpg 5bd6574e3179c406e280d248b8c682ae https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2d93dc7040793f64592a336cfb109163.jpg 6ac43dea45e2f199a6839681661afa19 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 1920-1924, 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 Edward H. Chandler, Twentieth Century Club, Boston, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 23, 1920 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Edward H. Chandler, Twentieth Century Club, Boston, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 23, 1920 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edward H. Chandler 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 23, 1920 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Edward H. Chandler https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/51d3c12d2cdc0fc26bfb983dab067e7e.jpg 47d2b7ee9370879bdf866cc64222abf4 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/044a29e1198a297917dd132d9b24189b.jpg 54ea01f3f0b1484c2bfbfe0435aee17e 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 1920-1924, 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 Robert E. Chandler, American Board Mission, Tientsin, to Edward H. Chandler, Twentieth Century Club, Boston, July 1, 1920 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Robert E. Chandler, American Board Mission, Tientsin, to Edward H. Chandler, Twentieth Century Club, Boston, July 1, 1920 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert E. Chandler Relation A related resource Dear Uncle Ned: Here is a chance for you to do a very real favor to me and to a Tientsin friend of mine. I think you may be in a position to do it, perhaps not. Do you have any connections now, old or new, in Andover? Is your friend Mr Shipman there still? The point is this. My friend Mr C.Y. Sun, a business man, is sending five of his children - and two other boys - to America for study; and he wishes if possible to place them in good homes. They are all going to Andover, at least for a start, to Phillips Academy, and the girls to Abbott. It is quite probable the boys may change to more technical schools later. He sends them all to be in the care of Principal Stearns of the Academy as a sort of guardian. Any arrangement should be made in consultation with him. But the thought is, that perhaps Dr Stearns may not be able, at the start, to give these very "Freshmen" any individual attention; they would just be herded in dormitories. Whereas an outside party might be able to find places in private homes in Andover, and make a suitable arrangement, to which Dr Stearns would readily assent. Do you know him? I suppose you must. Here are the names of the party: Approx.Age Arthur K.I. Sun 20 Charles K.H. Sun 12 Frank C.F. Lin 16 Sons of friends Quincy Q.S. She 16 of Mr Sun. Tom K.J. Sun 11 Mary P.L. Sun 15 Lucy S.L. Sun 11 The first four will leave Shanghai, Aug 23rd, on the "Nanking Maru". The other three will sail at about the same time, if passage can be secured. All will go across the continent without delay, so as to reach Andover about the time school opens. Do you think this thing can be done, that Mr Sun wants? To land seven Chinese children on one family, is of course almost out of the question. To place them in two families in Andover, may be very difficult. There are problems of service, or of the lack of it. And then, as we know, there are homes and homes, even among good Christian people, I am warning Mr Sun of all these uncertainties. But he is dead right in his main thought, that the training of Christian homes will mean more to these boys and girls "schooling." I very much hope they will get Mr Sun wants the children kept in order. He wants them not to acquire extravagant habits. There will be plenty of money for all necessary expenses. They have had some church connections here, and he wants them to have religious training. He is not himself a Christian, by profession. I feel sure you will do something in this matter, if you can. Please drop me a line as to possibilities. I will inform you if there are further developments. Yours as ever, 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 1, 1920 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 Edward H. Chandler Robert E. Chandler