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...Fairbank said many Americans do not understand Communism because the United States bases its identity "on a large and exceptional heritage in which liberty under the law is it main expression...
...John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, who will retire this year after 41 years at Harvard, told the group that East Asian Studies here originated in 1922 when Harvard "decided that the world was round and there should be a course on the Far East...
...Fairbank said the subsequent foundation of the Yenching Library in 1928 provided "the basis of Harvard's development" in the field. The development process culminated in the establishment of an East Asian Studies concentration in 1973, he said...
...Fairbank colored his account with anecdotes, saying, "I offer these sidelights which are irrelevant but interesting...
...morning the subject was the nomadic life of Mongolia--therefore endless slides of yaks. yurts, camels, and the like; also, toward the beginning, a picture of multiple mounds of dried sheep dung which, Fairbank explained, the Mongols used for fuel. Imagine my consternation when, several slides later, there appeared on the screen a precise duplicate of the sheepdung vista. Fairbank once again patiently explained the significance of the mounds, but added to the audience of 300, "I am frankly at a loss as to how to account for Mr. Thomson's infatuation with sheep dung...