Word: fairbanks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...open a new field in a stuffy department is to raise money for an endowed chair. John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, is directing a fund drive for a chair in Vietnamese Studies, which will presumably be occupied by his protege, Alexander B. Woodside, assistant professor of History. The going price for an endowed chair is $1 million. The income on that sum is primarily used for salaries, which average $24,000 and do not exceed $33,000. Because Fairbank began the drive in 1967, when the cost of a chair was only $600,000, the University...
...rather difficult to drop a field," Fairbank said. "You come along with a new field and you have to raise money for it. A field once established usually doesn't disappear." A field did disappear when Fairbank was promoted to a place in Chinese history over 25 years ago. The history of the Spanish Empire has not been taught at Harvard since...
...East Asia Task Force, which Dunlop appointed six months ago with Fairbank as chairman, included Edwin O. Reischauer. University Professor; Patrick D. Hanan, professor of Chinese Literature; Howard S. Hibbett '44, professor of Japanese Literature; Dwight H. Perkins, professor of Modern Chinese Studies; Henry Rosovsky, professor of Economics; Ezra F. Vogel, professor of Sociology; and, Edward W. Wagner '45, professor of Korean Studies...
According to Fairbank's proposal, this range includes Standing Committees which administer A.M. degrees in Regional Studies--East Asia and Ph.D.s in History and East Asian Languages; the committee administering federal funds for the Center for East Asian Studies and the National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship program; the East Asian Research Center; and the Managing Committee of the Harvard-Yenching Library...
...that affidavits from other scholars--including James Q. Wilson, chairman of the Government Department: John D. Montgomery, professor of Public Administration: Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor: John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics: and John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor of History--support the contention that protection of scholarly sources is necessary...