Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, gave a lecture to more than 300 students Saturday in a conference sponsored by the International Leadership Seminar (ILS), an organization apparently run by the followers of Rev. Sun Myung Moon...
...have found that the intensive week-long programs are attractive to the alumni, who couldn't come for longer periods because they can't leave their jobs or their children. Kim M. Anway, the coordinator for this year's Harvard alumni college, says that an experimental program taught by Edwin O. Reischauer several years ago lasted ten days, but that both the participants and the faculty involved found it too long and intensive. Nancy R. Downey, who directs the Radcliffe Institute's alumni program says that a week seems to be the right length of time because people...
Gossip was once the province of the fan magazine or the newspaper column. With the diminution of these outlets, the stories have found their way between cloth covers. No matter how thick those covers, they cannot disguise the poverty and pretension of the contents. It may be true, as Edwin Booth observed, that most actors' work is writ on water. Alas, it is truer to say that most actors' lives are rot on paper...
...conjunction with the Alumni College, the AHA also offers a series of taped seminars. The topics include a talk on Japan by Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, and on China by John K. Fairbanks '29, Higginson Professor of History...
Peterson says that this specific method of tapping foreign funds fits in well with the "pluralistic effort of approaching a wide variety of resources. We found a neglected area of scholarship and developed a special program to fulfill this need." The personal contacts in the orient maintained by Edwin O Reischauer. University Professor and former Ambassador to Japan, and by John K. Fair-bank '29, Higginson Professor of History, were valuable in locating Japanese resources and indicate, Peterson claims, the advantages of having a specialized fundraising project. Finally, says Peterson, "We appeal to the self interest of the government...