Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...received scores of letters urging the "strengthening [of] the teaching of science . . . more emphasis on high intellectual standards, more attention to the teaching of human relations, to remedial reading, character improvement, citizenship, spiritual education, hand-mindedness, our American heritage, teacher competence, foreign relations, foreign languages, money management, Asia, self-knowledge and sundry other fields." Nevertheless, said he, the conference would have to cope. "People who disagree on the fundamental principles cannot easily agree on school budgets, or on much of anything else connected with education...
...States is weakening the confidence of its allies at the United Nations. After two months of deadlock over the essentially unimportant question of filling a non-permanent Security Council seat, the U.S. is still backing the Philippines against Yugoslavia--the candidate of both the Soviet bloc and much of Asia and Western Europe. This policy of trying to twist each minor decision into a tactical triumph over Russia may show immediate results, but in the long run the U.S. is losing a much more strategic victory--the continuing respect of its U.N. allies...
...East Asia program is the best example of an area program that has evolved directly from the war, and it has also, as Langer says, worked very well indeed...
When hostilities with Japan ended in 1945, many returning veterans were increased in either beginning or continuing their studies of the Far East. Working through G.I. Bill benefits, these order, more mature students forced colleges throughout the country to expand their departments in the field of Asia. Here at Harvard, where the ASTP had worked so well, the University decided to retain the China-Japan program under the name of the Regional Program on East Asia...
...when the program was officially begun, a large number of applicants applied for admission into the two year M.A. curriculum. At that time, the first chairman, John K. Fairbank, professor of History, was forced to limit the enrollment to 12 students. The East Asia program had no funds of its own, and had to work within a restricted budget. These financial limitations still present hardships to the program today, with only about five scholarships available, all from general University resources...