1 10 9 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/fcd8e536909b37da7b69de7ecde87dc2.jpg b897b0a82648cb3f72140a81ea81c8f7 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8af08c17c39c20210efa9832e34bdc24.jpg e0d82bffe37f9d58a2d72e28bd007c15 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 1803, 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 May Wright Sewall to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 12, 1908 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from May Wright Sewall to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 12, 1908 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from May Wright Sewall to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Requests information about Wong Vung Lung, based suggestion of Professor C.D. Tenney. Believes Wong would perform better if wife and child were not in Andover. Asks what's Wong's actual progress. Asks Stearns opinion on Wong's domestic situation. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource May Wright Sewall 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 12, 1908 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 12th. 1908 Principal of the Phillips Andover Academy, Andover Massachusetts, My dear Mr. Stearns Wishing some information concerning one of your students at the suggestion of Professor C. D. Tenney, of Harvard University, I apply to you. There is enrolled in your Academy a Mr. Wong Vung Lung, the son of very dear friends of mine. Recently I had a long visit with Mr. Wong which left me anxious about him. I know that he felt he was not doing in his Mathematical studies. I, myself, had some fear that his new responsibilities would add burdens to his life at Andover. Professor Tenney has suggested that perhaps it would be better for Mr.Wong’s scholastic career if his wife and child should not be in Andover with him. This general and very informal statement will perhaps introduce the questions that I have to ask in a way that will incline you to answer them with the frankness that a very dear friend of the Wong family has a right to. Will you, therefore, kindly tell me just what Mr. Wong’s actual progress in each of his studies is, and what is his relative rank as compared with the other Chinese students who are with you. Also will you kindly give me your opinion as to the domestic question which has been suggested above. Thanking you in advance for an early and ample reply to this letter which I beg you to consider entirely confidential, I am, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns May Wright Sewall Wong Vung Lung https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/29bbce4eed3177822cb54753f5a5bf42.jpg d32f6f845dcc8616f304b136ba7f345b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 1803, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to May Wright Sewall, February 17, 1908 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to May Wright Sewall, February 17, 1908 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to May Wright Sewall. Discusses Wong's schoolwork. States a tutor will be needed to make up lost work. States domestic situation is affecting Wong's education. Believes a separation between Wong and wife will allow Wong to progress and fulfill father's wishes. Thanks Sewall for writing about the situation. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 17, 1908 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 17 February. 1908 Mrs. Mary Wright Sewall Cambridge Mass My dear Mrs. Sewall I have delayed answering your letter of the 18th Inst, until the opportunity should be given me to secure full information bearing on Mr. Wong's case. The boy has from the start interested me greatly, and with you I am anxious to do only what shall be for his best interests. Your queries are very natural. Go far as the boy's school work is concerned, I find that his mathematics come harder for him, perhaps, than do the languages, but his instructor tells me that he was passing, though at a low grade, at the time of the interruption to his school work - Since then he has not been able to make up all the work lost, will probably require a tutor to accomplish this. When this has been done he will be able, no doubt, to do the mathematics at a low grade, and will probably improve his standing as time goes on. In his modern language he is reported as doing excellent work, better than one of the other Chinese boys in his class, but not quite so good as the third. His work in English is fair, and improving. On the whole I think he has a better knowledge and command of the English language than most of the other Chinese boys have had at the start. Our teachers feel that he has excellent ability, fully the equal of most at least of the other Chinese boys, and that he will probably be able to stand fully as well if his domestic responsibilities do not prove too great a drain on his time and thoughts. As to the domestic situation, I confess that it seems far from desirable looked at from the point of view of the boy’s education. I can readily understand how hard it must be for the boy and his wife to consider a possible separation for most of the time. On the other hand only in that way will he be able, I think, to make the progress which is desired and without which the expense and time involved in his trip to and stay in this country must of necessity be part ill spent. I have said nothing whatever to Mr Wong on these lines, but an glad that you have been willing to put the ease so frankly. I may be wrong, but with the limited knowledge of the case that I now have, it is impossible for me to reach any other conclusion. Purely apart from the interference with his scholarship that the domestic arrangement involves, it seems only fair to say that the boy’ s relations with his schoolmates and his position in the school life as a whole must of necessity be seriously embarrassed by the presence and claims of hie wife and family. It seems almost heartless to advise a separation, but if the boy is in earnest in his desire to carry out his father's wishes for the best education America can give him, I believe he must adopt such a course. Trusting that you will appreciate fully the spirit in which I write, and will feel perfectly free to offer any suggestions or criticisms that my words may prompt, believe me, Very truly yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns May Wright Sewall Wong Vung Lung https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c2f8e8115ec75db8f5c0e709d6264c8d.jpg 1fe3391576c64eb1a63efc277fe9b62e https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/236dc373ed5e91e7259a34906e5ff803.jpg c35863995c8d48fbbf655787fb1a2220 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 1803, 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 May Wright Sewall to Mr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 19, 1908 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from May Wright Sewall to Mr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 19, 1908 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from May Wright Sewall to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Wishes to see Mr. Vung Lung Wong and his family. Wishes to see Stearns seeing Wong. Wants to help Wong carry out wishes of father. Believes Wong, his wife, and child would be happier in a different arrangement. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource May Wright Sewall 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 19, 1908 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 19th. 1908 Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts My dear Mr. Stearns I thank you warmly for your kind letter of the 17th about Mr. Vung Lung Wong. I have engagements in New York which will occupy the next fortnight. I expect to be in Cambridge again on the 7th. As soon as possible after that date I want to come over to Andover and see Mr. Wong and his family. Before I have any long visit with them, I should like to have an interview with you. I do not really know how trains run to Andover, but my present thought is to come to Andover on Tuesday, March 10th., and I should be much obliged if you would write me in advance of that date suggestion another day if that should prove inconvenient, for an interview with you, I think we must do something to enable Mr. Wong to carry out his father’s desires. It seems a sacred duty and I want a conference with you as to the best way of approaching a very delicate subject. I am certainly not devising a plan to weaken the domestic ties in this family. I think we have much to learn from the Chinese respecting domestic fidelity, but I do believe that Mr. Wong, the little wife and the baby would all be happier as well as actually better off, by some other arrangement than by that which I understand now exists. Of course I write you in perfect confidence. Thanking you for the frank kindness of your own letter, and anticipating with pleasure an interview, I am, Very cordially yours May Wright Sewall P.S. May I venture to say that my interest in coming to Andover is augmented by the fact that my father was a student there in the early part of the nineteenth century. M.W.S. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns May Wright Sewall Wong Vung Lung https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4ef6e47838c8ae3aacb10a3773a72ebf.jpg f23fe67c34c067891585d3e46cfbc674 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 1803, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to May Wright Sewall, February 21, 1908 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to May Wright Sewall, February 21, 1908 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to May Wright Sewall. Received letter from February 19. Plans to meet Sewall on March 10. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 21, 1908 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 21 February, 1908 Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Cambridge, Mass. My dear Mrs. Sewall: I am in receipt of your letter of the 19th inst. So far as I know now, I shall be in Andover on Tuesday, Marc 10, and hence will Be able to meet you on that date. If any unforeseen obstacle arises to prevent this, I shall advise you. Very truly yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns May Wright Sewall https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3087fed8e2da5bd31e8d95064ad4a1a6.jpg e5df8f8a878dd7fc971614b8bfd1619d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 1803, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to May Wright Sewall, March 11, 1908 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to May Wright Sewall, March 11, 1908 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to May Wright Sewall. Looked into Wong's schoolwork. States Wong is doing well in subjects. Believes Wong would perform better without domestic handicaps, but is performing well considering the situation. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 11, 1908 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 Mrs. Mary Wright Sewall. Cambridge, Mass. Mr. dear Mrs. Sewall, Since my talk with you yesterday I have had a chance to investigate Wong’s class work more carefully. The reports I received pleased me greatly. The boy finds it most difficult to make up his mathematics, but as he was passing in the subject at the end of the fall term, his instructor thinks that he will be able to make a satisfactory standing before the year is over. In the language I received my best reports, particularly in English. Wong is doing double English, and his two instructors speak in the very highest terms of his ability and success. Their praises are almost as strong as those you sounded in regard to the boy's sister. One of the men made the statement that he doubted whether he had ever had an American boy who showed clearer knowledge of grammer or a finer literary appreciation than does Wong. His modern language work, too, is reported as very strong. Unfortunately his Latin instructor was absent, and I could not get a report on this subject. From these reports it would appear that at present the boy is not suffering seriously from domestic handicaps. Whether this will prove to be true always is of course the question. I cannot help feeling that he would advance much more rapidly in his education if he did not have the outside distractions but I really, of course, that the conditions exist, and we must solve the problems in the way best suited to the welfare of all concerned. I shall be glad to hear from you after your talk with Mrs.Pope and I can in any way render your further assistance, kindly advise me. Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns May Wright Sewall Wong Vung Lung https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0c926004d3777aa6462ef82c3a516bea.jpg f60262bbcaf59fc578eeab1d1edc44e7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 1803, 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 May Wright Sewall to Mr. Alfred Stearns, March 18, 1908 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from May Wright Sewall to Mr. Alfred Stearns, March 18, 1908 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from May Wright Sewall to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Plans to visit Mrs. Pope. Thanks Stearns for letter about Wong. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource May Wright Sewall 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 18, 1908 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 18, 1908 Mr. Alfred Stearns Principal of Phillips Andover Academy Andover Massachusetts, My dear Mr.Stearns: Thank you so much for the letter about Mr. Wong. I am to visit Mrs.Pope next week; After that will write you. I return with thanks the copy of the Phillips Bulletin, and am Very cordially yours May Wright Sewall Dr. Alfred E. Stearns May Wright Sewall Wong Vung Lung https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bc8063c354f99412b5cecde84fb5d0c1.jpg 2c1bc6bdfd32063f80d71b073d761857 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 1803, 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 Business card for May Wright Sewall Subject The topic of the resource Business card for May Wright Sewall Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy 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 business card May Wright Sewall https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b39ac07449a5488485ac9def5f9f4b45.jpg 7bfecca5f7382954a99f81d2e24213d2 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bc9a0783303e13eb1fbac100be6c4995.jpg 7fbfb89fca36d356224b1536a315e0dd https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/fdab206aa4fb5e4b9c1792f65a2a7377.jpg 8506516cf2b8acc36a4579adb3b0e0e1 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2e150481013f48e5f80e1c57cf4878f7.jpg 223d92ef4dd84e7cfc3c343ce8f34694 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d72399050a0b4dd4ae23e8bd248dbbab.jpg a558b16914747e2b279b3f20628b9d7c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 1803, 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 May Wright Sewall to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, July 23, 1908 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from May Wright Sewall to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, July 23, 1908 Description An account of the resource Handwritten letter sent from May Wright Seall to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Asks for help finding someone to present on Confucianism and contemporary China at a conference. Asks why Stearns is disappointed with Vung Lung Wong. States information will remain confidential. Wishes to help Wong improve. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource May Wright Seall 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 23, 1908 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 May Wright Sewall Wong Vung Lung https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e5e6edb8ee528f5c733518fc2d01f6c8.jpg dd39fbacac550854c9d7440f8cb375f0 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/367cd4253db7d1e73f5082b6c5a2ecb2.jpg a2bff75e101fa802f49ecbf5aa15a8e1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stearns Folder 1803, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to May Wright Sewall, August 5, 1908 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to May Wright Sewall, August 5, 1908 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to May Wright Sewall. Unsure of who could present Confucianism at conference. Recommends Mr. Koo of Columbia and Mr. Wong of Yale. Directs Sewall to contact Dr. Henry D. Fearing for recommendations. Expresses disappointment in Wong Vung Lung's progress. Believes unusual domestic situation is largely to blame. States Wong's sister's progress is similarly irregular. Plans to discover the reasons behind difficulties and hopefully remedy them. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 5, 1908 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource August 5th, 1908 Miss May Wright Sewall, Green Acre, Eliot, York Co.,Maine My dear Miss Sewall: Your letter of July 23rd was forwarded to me from Andover and reached me Just as I was leaving the woods to return to my home, hence the delay in acknowledging Its receipt. I do not know whom to recommend as a suitable person to present Confucianism at your conference. At our conference here last year one of the boys, I think Mr. Koo of Columbia, presented the subject in a very interesting and striking way. My impression, too, is that hr. Wong of Yale, who seemed to me about the strongest and sanest Man here last summer, could do this acceptably. I do not know the summer addresses of either of these boys. It has occurred to me that hr. Henry D. Fearing of Amherst, who for years has kept in close personal touch with most of these foreigners, will be far better able than I am to advise you intelligently on this point. I am sorry that I feel so incompetent myself but I must be frank to admit limitations. A word as to Wong Vung Lung. Yes, I have been disappointed in that boy. impression is that the unusual domestic situation which has surrounded him as a school boy has been largely to blame for his seeming lack of progress. I have always felt more than usual interest in these Chinese students and when Wong first appeared, I was immensely attracted to him. My wife often laughed at enthusiasm on this point. The boy seems to lack a sense of responsibility and apparently fails to feel the importance of such natural business obligations as we are accustomed to encounter and of necessity must meet in a businesslike way. His work has been constantly interrupted and has been irregular and incomplete.  Personally I feel that the year has done very little for him in so far as the attainment of the ideal of his father is concerned I confess that from the outset the boy seems to have been handicapped by his surroundings and I am hopeful that a way can be found to make things easier for him in the future. From what I have heard I infer that his sister's record this past year must have been equally irregular. I know at least that she spent days at a time in Andover to the injury of the boy's work and I have no doubt to the detriment of her own. Perhaps I am unduly disturbed for I confess that my feelings are shaped more by general impressions than by overt and definite acts on the boy’s part. Still I was naturally prejudiced in his favor and I don't believe that my feelings would have undergone such a change without some good -reason. I shall do my best to get in closer touch with him from now on in the hope that I may be able to discover the real difficulty and, if possible, supply a remedy. With Kind personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns May Wright Sewall Wong Vung Lung