Word: elisseeff
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Among the speakers were Thomas H. Quinn '36, toastmaster; Charles A. Watkins '09, chief aide for the Associated Harvard Clubs Meeting; Nikita Elisseeff, of the University of Paris; Frank P. McInnis, of the University of Toronto; Ian Harvey, of Oxford; A James Copp III, of Stanford; and Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin...
After dinner Teastmastor Thomas H. Quinn '36 will introduce speaker Edward A. Taft '04, president of the host Club, Nikita Elisseeff, of the University of Paris, Frank P. McInnis, of the University of Toronto, Ian Harvoy, of Oxford University, A. James Copp, 3d, of Stanford University, and Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin...
According to information received yesterday from Serge Elisseeff, director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and professor of H. Pfeiffer, chairman of the present Division of Semitic Languages and History, and assistant professor of Semitic Languages, the independence of the Division of Semitic Languages is not threatened by the plan for a new Division of Oriental Languages. The statement in Monday's CRIMSON that the new Division Oriented Languages, (in which there will be the then Department of Semitic Languages and History), will in any way absorb the latter is "an absurdity, a mistake, and a misstatement...
This new department, if the corporation follows Professor Elisseeff's proposal, would be composed of the present Division of Semitic Languages and History, the department of Indic Philology, and the separate courses now given in Japanese and Chinese...
...Professor Elisseeff's plan is accepted by the Corporation there will still be a total of 16 divisions, since the new Far Eastern Language department would absorb the separate division of Semitic Languages...