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Mohtz recalls that he first became disenchanted with Harvard when he took courses on the Far East from John Fairbank '29, Higginson: Professor of History. Fairbank attacked General Douglas MacArthur and Mohtz objected. "What I thought then was proved in the '50s, of course," Mohtz says, noting that Fairbank was cited as a Communist sympathizer...
...Economics Emeritus, used to lecture his classes from notes he compiled in the course of writing a book. As soon as he completed the manuscript, he would move on to teach another course in another branch of economics in the interest of preventing boredom. For the same reason, Craig, Fairbank and Reischauer consistently lecture in Soc Sci 11 on the parts of the East Asian tome they didn't write. Loomis decided to leave his Math I teaching post as soon as the department voted to switch to his text several years ago. "I get embarrassed about using...
...numbers sold are any mark of quality when it comes to textbooks, the assumption may not be as presumptuous as it sounds. The Soc Sci 11 textbook "East Asian Civilization," for example, co-authored by Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, Albert Craig, professor of Japanese History, and John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, was written for the course about 20 years ago when, as Reischauer says, "We were killing ourselves to teach two whole civilizations without a printed page to work from." Since that time, the two volume set has become the definitive and best-selling text...
Standing on one side of the controversy are the so-called "Reds," who espouse Chairman Mao Tse-tung's idea of continual revolution and selfless commitment to "serve the people," John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, said yesterday. Mao believes the revolution is betrayed by bureaucrats who obtain privileges and turn elitist, Fairbank added...
...center is trying to raise an endowment to put the center on a more permanent basis than it has been in the past, Fairbank added...