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...Fenner expects slow progress in the future, due to a conflict with an overlapping drive by the Armenian General Benevolent Union. Both Fenner and Richard N. Frye, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, last night expressed hope that the Benevolent Union will contribute from $15,000 to $25,000 toward the chair...
...effect of the meeting, Frye points out, was proof that the University was "going into a field which was crying for people. There was little adequate training anywhere in the country...
...other universities had already taken up the challenge by the time Harvard got around established its Center, but all were small and new. The new strategic importance of the Middle East--both in resources and location--required many more people with a knowledge of the area. In addition, as Frye points out, the whole area is going through "nothing less than a basic revolution. The impact of the West is really reaching down to the people on all levels, and we must begin to understand the changes in what was a sleeping part of the world...
...formal study of the modern Middle East required, first of all, the establishment of boundaries--even if the are somewhat artificial. From Iran in the east, the Center includes all of the traditional "Near East," as well as Egypt in North Africa. Frye hopes the Center will expand into Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other areas of Africa, but for the present, the Center is somewhat overwhelmed by the areas already included...
Vastly more important that mere technical boundaries was the addition of more scholars to the University staff. Frye, brilliant young linguist and historian, had carried much of the load himself until Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb was appointed University Professor and Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic in 1954. Langer calls him "one of the very greatest living Arabists," and with his special interest the impact of the West upon Arab Society, the British scholar is certain to be a continuing inspiration for the Center...