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...list of signers includes virtually all the specialists in East Asian studies at the level of assistant professor and above, and some in related fields. Besides Reischauer and Thomson, the signatories were: John K. Fairbank '29, Ezra F. Vogel, Dwight H. Perkins, Albert M. Craig, Ernest R. May, Ben-jamin I. Schwartz '38, Jerome A. Cohen, Henry Rosovsky and Roy Hofheinz...
...Harvard today conferred honorary degrees on 15 men and one woman, including James B. Reston, columnist and vice president of the New York Times, John K. Fairbank '29, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, and founder and director of Harvard's East Asian Research Center; and Cardinal Leon-Joseph Suenens of Belgium, world leader of the ecumenical movement in the Catholic Church...
...319th Commencement, Harvard singled out five men who have helped govern the University. In addition to Fairbank are: Baltimore lawyer William Luke Marbury, recently retired Senior Fellow of the Corporation; Thomas D. Cabot '19, a former Overseer and Trustee of Radcliffe College; Don K. Price, dean of the Kennedy School of Government; and James R. Reynolds '23, fundraising adviser to two Harvard presidents from 1949 to 1969. Reynolds received a Doctor of Humane letters; the other four received Doctors...
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...former ambassador to China during World War II, Fairbank was falsely labeled a Communist during the McCarthy era for advocating that the United States accept the fact that Nationalist China had lost the war. In the '50's, the stigma of McCarthyism forced him to recede from public life and continue his teaching at Harvard...