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Opportunity for Harvard to make clear its position in the Sino-Japanese War and take a real step in furthering international scholarship was outlined by John K. Fairbank '29, instructor in History, as he discussed the drive for books and funds to support China's fleeing universities starting this week...
...Fairbank particularly emphasized the function of the intelligentsia in the Chinese social and political system. It is the college graduates who organize and direct all efforts to oppose the Japanese. It is in the colleges that Chinese nationalism is chiefly fostered, and hence it is at the universities that the Japanese have directed their first attacks. Through the preservation of the universities alone does China stand a real chance to throw off the Japanese yoke and salvage her own culture and independence...
Only by the most courageous and spectacular fortitude, Fairbank continued, have the universities been able to keep from disintegrating. Their books and buildings have been taken from them, and now in Kunming their preservation depends on aid from foreign nations. "It is our chance now to take up the cause of international scholarship and stand against the wanton imperialism of an aggressor nation...
...members of the committee are: John K. Fairbank '29, instructor in History, Kendrick N. Marshall '21, instructor in Government, Edward Y. Hartshorne '33, instructor in Sociology, and Donald H. Wallace, assistant professor of Economics...
Blanks can also be obtained from Dr. J. K. Fairbank, kirkland H-11, who is in general charge this year of the Rhodes Scholarship applications at Harvard. Appointments can be made with him by telephoning before nine o'clock in the morning to KIRkland...