Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malley was perplexed by the fact that the Eastern College Athletic Conference had ruled that he could compete in regular season games, since all but the McGill game had been under N.C.A.A. sanction. "What's the difference between playing games here and out West?" he asked...
...recent Faculty Report of the Behavioral Sciences notes this deficiency by saying that ". . . a considerable addition to the staff will be required . . ." Experts in the Far Eastern field state that the absolute minimum addition to the faculty necessary to direct the most basic graduate research is three new permanent appointments, one in Japanese history and one each in the economics and government of both China and Japan...
Despite these gaps, however, Far Eastern studies at Harvard are strong by comparison with most universities, and the skeleton of an extensive research program does exist. Chinese history and Far Eastern languages and anthropology are already well-staffed, and the present East Asia Regional Studies program gives graduate students both an M.A. and a vestible look at the immense problems of the Far East. In addition, Harvard's physical plant is uniquely suited to pursue further research; a special library of over 250,000 volumes is available in the Yenching Institute in Boylston Hall...
...present system is to look for outside financial support. In the past, the Government or foundations have supported research programs like the Russian Research Center. Such a center for the Far East is now equally important. If the University were to make long range plans for a Far Eastern Research Center, foundations would probably help finance new permanent appointments to the faculty. By appealing to an outside source to strengthen Far Eastern studies, Harvard would not only be "leading from strength," but would be leading into a vital field of research not yet fully explored...
John Foster Dulles (Wed. 10:30 p.m., CBS). On the Far Eastern situation...