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...read with particular interest the article about our new ambassadors [Jan. 12]. Ed Reischauer was a contemporary of mine at Oberlin. His older brother Bob was a classmate and close friend of mine. It was tragic and ironic that Bob was killed by a Japanese bomb dropped on a Shanghai hotel in 1937, since Bob grew up in Japan...
Reischauer spent most of his childhood in Tokyo, graduated from Oberlin ('31), and after his M.A. in history at Harvard spent six years studying and touring as a fellow of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, an independent foundation that supports exchange fellowships and other academic programs in Asia (Reischauer had been its director since 1956). In 1931, at a time when few Americans were interested in Oriental studies, Reischauer was the only student taking Harvard's Chinese classics course, proudly calls himself "sort of a premature genro [elder statesman]." At Harvard he was famed for his basic course...
...girls, all in the top 2% of their classes, to name their choices. Results, in order, for boys: Harvard, M.I.T., Stanford, Cal Tech., Yale, University of California at Berkeley, Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, Rice. For girls: Stanford, Radcliffe, Cornell, Wellesley, California at Berkeley, University of Michigan, Duke, Smith, Barnard, Oberlin...
Four hundred forty-eight of the 13,000 girls picked Stanford as their first choice, while 403 named the 'Cliffe. Cornell was third with 303, followed by Wellesley, 274; California, 231; Michigan, 230; Duke, 218; Smith, 162; Barnard, 156; and Oberlin...
Finally, there's the Play of Daniel, the twelfth-century, semi-secular, demi-liturgical Christmas drama from Beauvais. Noah Greenberg has recorded his recent and acclaimed performance at the Cloisters. Russell Oberlin is a soloist (Decca...