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...with the death of the emperor Ch'ien-lung. Everything else was journalism," says Theodore H. White '38, the author of The Making of the President books and Thunder Out of China, who was Fairbank's first undergraduate tutee. Fairbank, who is retiring this year as Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History after 41 years on the Faculty, led the way out of that darkness, making modern China part of the American intellectual world. With a single-minded devotion that America's China missionaries would have envied, Fairbank made China, as seen from the inside out, the focus of Harvard...
...human cancers; for example, doctors have found a high incidence of an otherwise rare form of lung cancer in workers exposed to asbestos, and are discovering another rare form of liver cancer among those who have worked with vinyl chloride. In 1958, a British physician named John Higginson was challenged by a skeptical scientific community when he suggested that 70% to 80% of all cancers are environmental in origin. Now many scientists suspect that the actual figure may be closer...
Official starters for yesterday's regatta were Harvard varsity crew coaches Harry Parker and John Higginson...
...varsity shell showed a "reasonable spring," according to Coach John Higginson, countering a late Princeton surge and stretching the margin of victory to four seats. The times were: 6:05.5, Harvard: 6:07.5, Princeton; and 6:08.8, Yale...
...Higginson said yesterday, "I couldn't see any bad luck among the other crews and Princeton is an excellent boat." In short, "We were delighted...