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...Oscar Handlin, in a statement signed by 37 moderate sinologists, perceivees a "defeatist" attitude in U.S. China policy and declares, "We are prevailing." The policee chief of Cedar Rapids, Ia., reports the season's first riot. He terms it "a minor disturbance," and adds, "We really don't think it's racial thing at all." CBS news reports that Cedar Rapids in missing...
...many of the dissenters' caricatured criticisms were debasing discussion of the war, and that noisy campus demonstrations were convincing the nation and world of unanimous dissent by U.S. intellectuals. Scalapino conveyed his feelings to 13 colleagues, including Columbia's A. Doak Barnett, Harvard's Oscar Handlin and Edwin Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Under the sponsorship of the Freedom House Public Affairs Institute, a non-partisan educational organization, they got together for three days in October at Tuxedo, N.Y., and began debating and putting down their thoughts...
...YORK, Dec. 19-Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, and Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor, of American History, are among 14 Asia scholars who have signed a moderate Vietnam statement under the auspices of the Freedom House Public Affairs Institute...
...Handlin explained last night that he offered his amendments because, in his opinion fourth-course pass-fail "doesn't face up to the real issue. We pretend that there are 6000 roughly comparable courses in the catalogue and that you can add up 16 1/2 of these units and call them a Harvard education. The whole system of courses and credits ought to be reconsidered...
David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, spoke against Handlin's amendment, which last night he termed "tricky and even weird." He argued that Handlin's view was worth considering later but that it would be capricious to substitute it now for a plan painstakingly worked out by the Harvard Policy Committee...