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In Boylston Hall is located the local office of the Harvard-Yenching institute which, in conjunction with Harvard and the Yenching University of Peiping, promotes the study of Oriental culture, carrying on research and granting fellowships to Chinese or Occidental students for work in the Orient, Europe or at Harvard...
Last December the tawny, friendly islanders received the longest visit (ten days) from a scientist that any of them could remember. The visitor was Harry Lionel Shapiro, 32-year-old anthropologist of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Shapiro went to Pitcairn not as a nostalgic historian...
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer has been in production ever since Paramount bought Major Francis Yeats-Brown's best-selling autobiography four years ago. Director Ernest Schoedsack (Grass, Chang) went to India, spent $200,000 on background shots of which 100 ft. appear in the finished picture. Almost...
The Institute carries on, for properly prepared Chinese and Occidental scholars, research and educational work of the type appropriate to a graduate school of arts and sciences, and in so far as it may appear expedient in order to prepare scholars for admission to the work of the Institute, to...
In accordance with these purposes, the Institutes contributes annually to the support of several institutions in China and allots to Harvard University such sums as the Trustees deem advisable for the development of teaching and research in the language, literature, history, and art of China and Japan. The Institute also...