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Requirements for concentration are six courses in the field, which must include a reading knowledge of either Chinese or Japanese. The Department also offers Mongolian in two varieties, old written and new written...
...Ruxton suburb. He speaks Tibetan, Chinese, and everyday Mongol, reads the literary classical Mongol, which has changed little since the days of Genghis Khan. But since he understands no English, he will do no teaching yet. For the time being, he will be a research adviser on Mongolian culture and religion...
...role which the automobile plays in U.S. life. To the average American, a car is much more than a chromium-jawed beast of burden. It is the next thing to being a member of the family, regarded as affectionately as the Bedouin regards his camel, or the Mongolian tribesman his shaggy pony. It is both a necessity and luxury, a help in making a livelihood and a means of escape. When he buys a new car, the average American approaches the job with considerable gravity and excitement, and often only after a rousing argument at the dinner table...
Chills & Jitters. Earthquakes are the most persistent of Mother Earth's ailments, and the most mysterious. Mongolian lamas used to assure their followers that the world rests on the back of a monstrous frog whose every muscle twitch causes a temblor. Natives of Mozambique logically decided that their quake of 1891 was just a case of global chills & fever. Scientists now believe that the earth's crust is a mosaic of big, loose blocks that roll and toss every time they are jarred out of line. San Francisco is close to a "fault" between two such blocks...
...Sundays attracts many American students who come to partake of both an education more liberal than the GE program and also of what the Center calls "the best Sunday night meal for forty cents in Cambridge." When the room fills with saris, turbans, and all conceivable accents from Upper Mongolian to Lower Californian, Thayer house rivals the lobby of Grand Hotel for international flavor. A hopeful not for tomorrow lies in the possibility that the good will and understanding that pervades Center gatherings today will hold over when many of the students return to lead their nations in world affairs...