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...summer. Later it will travel to London and early next year to Toronto. It is the fruit of almost ten years' negotiation between the Chinese and French governments, begun by ex-Culture Minister André Malraux and finished in detail by a group of orientalists headed by Vadime Elisseeff, chief curator of the Musée Cernuschi in Paris. Encyclopedic in scope-the objects on display range from rudimentary quartz and flint scrapers used by Peking Man in 500,000 B.C. to the exquisite porcelains and silver toilet articles of the Yuan dynasty, which ended...
...Serge Elisseeff, Professor of Far Eastern Languages, and Michael Karpovich, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, will retire at the end of this academic year...
Professor Elisseeff, an authority on Japanese, came here in 1934 to head the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He was born in Russia, and taught there until taken hostage by the Communists in 1920. Escaping to France, he taught at the Sorbonne until coming here...
Provost Paul H. Buck has requested that the practice of eating luncheon in the reading rooms and stacks of the Chinese-Japanese library be discontinued at once for sanitary reasons. Serge Elisseeff Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute
Although Serge Elisseeff, head of the Institute and professor of Far Eastern Languages, called the bill a mere formality, Senator William D. Fleming of Worcester led the opposition against it. One of the bill's proponents, Senator Hastings Keith of Plymouth explained that the Institute's assets already exceeded the present legal limit of $10 million...