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...March 20, the Core Committee approved Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith A. Ryan's Foreign Cultures class "Jugend Gegen Hitler" (Youth Against Hitler), and Jeffrey D. Sachs '76, Stone professor of international trade, will offer a Social Analysis course entitled "Wealth and Poverty in the World Economy...
...Dilowa Gegen, whose last name means enlightened one, was one of 13 high-ranking lamas in Outer Mongolia before 1980. The Russians entered, and he left, going to China and then coming to the United States to become Consultant on Mongol Studies at Johns Hopkins...
Dilowa came to the United States last year at the bidding of the United States government and his old friend Owen Lattimore, Professor in the Page School of international Relations at Johns Hopkins and father of godson David. The (physically) 60-year-old Gegen tells seminar students in the Page School about Mongolian history and customs, and spends his spare time at home with the Lattimores in Baltimore...
Talk of the United States world of large cities, department stores, and universities where thousands of students live together brings large smiles to the Gegen's face. His friends, the Lattimores, tell of interesting experiences when the Gegen, in his ornate, heavy silk Oriental robe, enters the large New York emporiums...
Dilowa speaks to his godson David in a combination of Chinese and sign language. They make remarkably few mistakes, but neither do they any much. Lattimore was able to get a decision from the Lama as to whether he should be called Dilowa Gegen or Dilowa Hutukhtu in this story: The Mongolian averred that, while Hutukhtu also denotes part of his political position, Gegen is the more specific name...