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Four of these experts were consulted: John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, member of the Committee on Far Eastern Studies, and director of Regional Study Program on China; Bruce C. Hopper '24, associate professor of government, instructor in the Regional Program on the Soviet Union, and teacher of a course on "Russia and Asia in World Politics;" Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, member of the Committee on Far Eastern Studies, and instructor in the Regional Program on China; and Benjamin Schwartz, instructor in History and member of the Russian Research Center, Far Eastern Division...
...hand. Said the London Times: "The influence of the 16th Century Roman chancery style is predominant, and undoubtedly beneficial ; but the exhibits are commendably free from formalism, and it is clearly the intention of those in charge of this admirable experiment that the bone structure of Arrighi, Johnston and Fairbank* shall be well covered with idiosyncratic muscle and flesh, to produce a sound, natural cursive...
...Famed calligraphers all. Ludovici Arrighi of Rome published the first manual for nonprofessionals in 1522. Edward Johnston, who died in 1944, was known as the "father of modern English calligraphy." Today's best-known English calligrapher: 55-year-old Alfred J. Fairbank...
Aspirants will listen to a ten-minute talk by John K. Fairbank, professor of History, on one side of the question: "Resolved, That the U.S. should recognize Communist China." The contestants will then deliver a five-minute rebuttal, and will be judged on their performances...
...Fairbank called for abandonment of "wishfulness and unrealism" at home as a "real defence against Russia's Asiatic expansion...