1 10 36 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7eed43c741deaf82a2fee3a7a2c6ce6f.jpg 30857b2e3e82fd11073e7cc3c512d952 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 5037, 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 Receipt for check from Tsai Shou Kie to Alfred Stearns, $2,000 , August 30, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Receipt for check from Tsai Shou Kie to Alfred Stearns, $2,000 , August 30, 1923 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 30, 1923 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 receipt Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4c6f0091f91941d8085d0aab0adc44a7.jpg 278135ad67720ac98d377789e055852b 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 5037, 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 Receipt for check from Tsai Shou Kie to Alfred Stearns $2,000, April 24, 1924 Subject The topic of the resource Receipt for check from Tsai Shou Kie to Alfred Stearns $2,000, April 24, 1924 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 24, 1924 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 receipt Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/250b0b3d191455558aa590a598bfcbcb.jpg 85a8e6194afae3de36c2af0028b61286 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/32d81ed84e737aefb49a48f78664f079.jpg a62a1cc1fd5bbf0bfa91d8e818357483 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, May 22, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, May 22, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tsai Shou Kie 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 22, 1923 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 81 Council Road, Tientsin, May 22nd, 1923 Dr.Alfred E.Stearns Phillips Academy Andorer, Mass, U.S.A. My dear Dr. Stearns, I do not know how to express my appreciation for the persevering attention you have given to Kuo Fong, it is a great relief to me to know that he is taken better care of than at home. Please do not feel too concerned over his attack of nervousness. It was not altogether a surprise to me because I know he had always been so affected. This complaint seems to run in the family. His brother Kuo Tso has been under electrical treatment for this illness, and is now quite recovered. Constant worrying, I believe, is the main cause, and I agree with you that with less occasions for excitement, Kuo Fong should be able to control his attitude of mind and thus make a decisive gain towards his physical improvement, and general welfare. Concerning, his plans for entering Amherst this fall, I have no particular objection, although, personally, I would like to have him in a business school, in this matter, however I do not want to force him against his own wishes. As long as he obtains your approval before actually carrying out his ideas, I shall be quite satisfied. Since receiving Kuo Fong’s letter, I have already sent you a check covering his overdrawn account. I am sorry this has happened so whenever due to some unexpected expense the regular allowance will not be sufficient, I would like to be notified if possible before the fund becomes exhausted so as not to bother you with making loans for overdrawing. His August remittance will be made as usual. To discuss the present situation in China is very discouraging. We have a government which has no authority and consequently cannot be held absolutely responsible for any action or lack of same. As an example of its powerlessness, the bandits who held up our only train de luxe are holding daily conferences on an equal footing with our Minister of Communications over conditions and demands submitted by the bandits for the release of foreign and Chinese travellers who were captured and kept as hostages, still we are hoping for the best. A change of the Cabinet is again expected; something might be accomplished by the new administration. Among the older boys who had been under your guardionship, I know quite a few. in fact I have three in my own family. S.S.Kwan and Tommy Lee are both in Tientsin, and they both remember Andover well. A few copies of the Bulletin come regularly and these chaps often gather around to talk of their old days. Please accept my thanks for your kindness and your constant keeping me in touch with Kuo Fong's progress. With best regards, I remain, Yours very sincerely, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/68acdb5ffaac3d248b2b51a3878fdb9c.jpg b6e4b86624bb363ca32a9d2c29d61a53 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, February 6, 1920 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, February 6, 1920 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tsai Shou Kie 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 6, 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 Relation A related resource 5 Race Course Road, Tientsin, China, February 6, 1920. Mr. A. E. Stearns, Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, Mass., U. S. A. My dear Mr. Stearns:- I am enclosing a draft on the International Banking Corporation, New York, for $1660.00 U. S. Currency, in your favor, which will pay for the year's expenses of my son Kuo Fang, who is now with you. I wish to take this opportunity to again thank you for your kindness in looking after his welfare and his education. I feel that he cannot possibly be placed in better hands and I am greatly indebted to you. Kuo Fang writes me often and tells me about his experiences in America and of your kindness towards him, and I have no cause for worry. His work as Chief Locomotive Superintendent of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway keeps my son Kuo Tsao very busy, and he tells me that he has not written to you as often as he should and as he would like to. But he promises to write you a good long letter in the near future and tell you all the news. My other son Kuo Pao is in business as Manager of the Pacific Trading Company at Hankow. His business takes him from one city to another and he is continually on the go, which explains his failure to write to you. I recall with a great deal of pleasure the good times we had together in Hongkong on the occasion of your last visit to China several years ago, and hope that sometime soon you may have another opportunity to visit us once more and see some of the changes that have come over this country. With kind personal regards. Gratefully and sincerely yours, Tsai Shou Kie Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3dd12800b76bc1c2c433021b4677403e.jpg 700b519fa4645a018ffaca80c85ec9de 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, November 10, 1920 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, November 10, 1920 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tsai Shou Kie 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 November 10, 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 Relation A related resource 5 Race Course Road, Tientsin, China, November 10, 1920. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, Principal, Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, Mass., U. S. A. My dear Dr. Stearns I am enclosing draft on the International Banking Corporation, New York, for U.S. $1,600.00 to cover the allowance of my boy, Kuo-fang, for one year. I hear from Luo-fang quite frequently and he is, I am sure, making good progress with his education under your charge. Allow me to thank you for the personal attention which you have been giving him from time to time. With kindest personal regards, Yours very sincerely, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2c3406c52cf92ba3af4cad0e0fe11ff5.jpg 9ac254c8e021faca4da918cbc7eff982 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, January 10, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, January 10, 1921 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tsai Shou Kie 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 10, 1921 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 5 Race Course Road, Tientsin, China, January 10, 1921. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, Principal, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., U. S. A. My dear Dr. Stearns I wish to thank you for your kind letter of December 7, 1920 acknowledging receipt of draft for $1600.00 and informing me that there was still a balance of $452.04 remaining to the credit of Kuo-fang. I am highly pleased from a perusal of the statement which you sent me to note that Kuo-fang has been able, in addition to his regular studies, to find the time and energy to take part in so many outside activities. It is my sincere hope that his popularity among the boys will not give him that affliction which is known among Americans as the "swell head". May I ask you, in loco parentis, to do me the great favor of especially seeing to it that Kuo-fang restricts the growth of his head to due proportions? Phillips Andover is undoubtedly increasing in popularity among Chinese boys, and I am glad to learn that the large number with you now helps to keep you in close touch with our country. Kuo-tsao and Kuo-pao both wish to join me in sending to you our kindest personal regards. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/65cab79a70811fd44a9644edadaf5899.jpg c12ba78596044a65bf0db11c4c26c7b1 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9380c1097958b06fb60cd1c1fd5ea488.jpg f485d5693b2dd31bdceb59fbfdba4893 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Dr. A. E. Stearns, August 31, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Dr. A. E. Stearns, August 31, 1921 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tsai Shou Kie 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 31, 1921 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 5 Race Course Road Tientsin,China August 31, 1921. Dr. A.E.Stearns Phillips Academy Andover, Mass.U.S.A. Dear Dr. Stearns, I enclose draft for $1600.00 U.S.Currency for the expenses of my son Kuo Fang. Please acknowledge receipt of this in your next letter. I hope Kuo Fang is getting along all right and not giving you too much trouble. From what I hear, he is progressing nicely,thanks no doubt to your kind supervision. His letters indicate that he is quite happy and enjoying himself. He writes of his visiting Mr. Wickham of Hartford, my old schoolmate, and of their going to a circus' together and so forth. I am glad to notice the great improvement in his English. He also writes of playing football and other games, and I therefore rest assured that you are making a regular man out of him. By the way, I sent you a photograph through Mr.Wickham some time ago. I wonder if you have received it yet. Mr. Wickham was in China a few months ago, so you might find it interesting to talk with him about present conditions in China if you should happen to run across him. Right in the wake of the great famine came heavy rainfall and floods. We are now seriously afflicted with floods in several sections of the country. Some portions of our railroads have to suspend traffic on this account. We also have with us resumed fighting in Hupeh, Hunan and Kwangsi, and we do not know what the outcome will be. But we are looking forward with great expectations to the coming Pacific Conference in your country, and we hope that we with the help of your people we shall ultimately procure rights and justice in our international affairs. Wishing you a most successful school year, and thanking you for all that you are doing for my son, I remain, Yours sincerely, Tsai Shou Kie Yours sincerely, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/75887adf504b01b90f2f681817a9b3fd.jpg 34b930952d5fd48dcfba3c573d57f3c5 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e2ba0b9646a820cd0340d80d4085a647.jpg c564ce28d191fc0d46a0db4a31503fac 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, November 17, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, November 17, 1921 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tsai Shou Kie 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 November 17, 1921 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 Tientsin, Nov. 17, 1921 Dr. A. E. Stearns, Andover, Mass. Dear Dr. Stearns:- I am in receipt of both of your letters and wish to express my most heart-felt appreciation for the care and concern you are giving to Kuo Feng’s welfare. I am not in the least worried over the after-effects of the operation, as over a month had now elapsed before your letters had reached me, and in the interim, "no news was good news". As regards your authorizing the operation to be performed without my previous knowledge of the boy’s precarious plight, it would indeed have been a great indiscretion on your part, if any time was lost in getting my sanction before the commencement of the operation. The boy is in your hands, and opportunity is taken in this instance to express once more my wish of having him completely under your guardianship both in name and in fact. There is nothing you may do for his welfare which will not be approved of by me and his brothers. Of course, I hope you will send me whenever it is ready, the entire bill for the fees and charges incidental to the operation, and I shall remit you the sum upon receipt of same. I presume he will have to give up his athletic activities for some time to come. Just now our eyes are focussed towards the Washington Conference, and we hope as your President ,and I believe, the rank and file of the Americans hope that the program as laid out by your Representatives will be adopted in its entirety and that satisfactory solutions will be found for all the stupendous problems in the Pacific, which may be a menace to the future peace of the world. If reasons and "fair play" prevail, if intrigues and conspiracy are not fostered, if secret diplomacy is banished, and if subtle propaganda are not perpetuated when the old World’s diplomats come together with our next door neighbor to block the success of the Conference, then I am very sanguine to believe that the Biblical saying, "Love thy neighbors as thyself", and the Confucian maxim, "All within four seas are bretherns" will find their fulfillments, the complete realization of which has taken over twenty centuries to do so.  I would very much like to take a trip to America if I were ten years or so younger. I had such an opportunity in 1913 when I was offered and honored by an appointment as Minister to Washington, but as I had then already made up my mind to retire from official life and devote all my time for my family, I declined the post. Now I find that I am so fondly attached to my hearth-stone that during the last five years, I have been scarcely been out of Tientsin for more than three occasions. But on the other hand, I hope you will follow the footsteps of Professors Dewey and Monroe of Columbia, and Bertram Russell of Cambridge, or the American Educational Mission headed by President Wooley of Mount Holyoke, and the Board of trustees of the Peking Union Medical College of the Rockefeller Foundation, and make a trip out this way in the near future.This hope is cherished and shared by all your former students and friends in China. You contact, your magnetic personality and your altruism will gove them increased courage and fortitude to face the task they are performing. My sons, Kuo-tsao and Kuo-pao, and son-in-law, Yit Sing Wong ('07) all join me in sending their friendliest greetings and best wishes to you. With kindest regards, I am, Very sincerely yours, Tsai Shou Kie Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/022a2ec6bee16414fc57b212e19d296c.jpg 3b70ac678fbe217c5706bfa435c3c841 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, January 25, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, January 25, 1922 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tsai Shou Kie 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 25, 1922 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 25th January, 1922. Dear Dr. Stearns I am sending enclosed herewith draft for Six Hundred and Fifty ($650.00) Dollars, U.S. Currency with which you will please settle the charges and fees incurred by Kuo-fang during his recent operation. Any balance may be credited to his account. We are enjoying the best of health, and all the boys join me in sending their kindest regards and fondest remembrances to you. Very hastily but most sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5fc2aba053da392e55f8fd4198a79414.jpg 45c75e4c46104251c9c6e443e2365ad8 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 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Dr. A. E. Stearns, August 24, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Dr. A. E. Stearns, August 24, 1922 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tsai Shou Kie 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 24, 1922 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. A. E. Stearns, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. 35 Racecourse Road, Tientsin, China. August 24, 1922. Dear Dr. Stearns: I enclose herewith Draft, payable to your order and drawn on the International Banking Corporation, for the sum of Sixteen Hundred ($1600.00) Gold Dollars, and shall be glad to have the amount credited to Kuo Fang’s account for his school and other expenses. He has been writing home very frequently, and I am quite satisfied with the progress he is making in his studies in view of the after-effects of his operation for appendicitis. In all his letters, he never fails to mention of the paternal interest you take in him, and for which I wish to express my profound appreciation and thankfulness. Notwithstanding the ups and downs of events which are transpiring in Peking and other centres, as you may be informed by the Press accounts, the people are going on with their daily occupations as usual. I am very optimistic that sooner or later we shall have a Government worthy of its name. The conditions now prevailing are comparable to those in France during the early years of the French Republic. I believe Kuo Fang has told you that his brother Kuo-pao is the father of a baby girl, age one and one-half year. Her name is Edith, and she is such a sweet and darling child, now able to walk and beginning to learn to talk. Besides my two sons and son-in-law, Y.S.Wong, I have living with me another Andoverite, who,I understand during his four years under your guardianship, was a great pride to the school and to you personally. He is Tommy Y.C.Lee, and has been staying with us for nearly two years. He has grown not in height but in dimension, being as tall as he is broad. He joins with the others and myself in sending our fondest remembrance and kind regards to you. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie