Word: reischauer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reischauer called Harvard "way out ahead" in the undergraduate program, since students accept a Far Eastern course as "a natural part of their studies." Political science, art, literature, and history courses have steadily increased in size during the years since World...
...number of undergraduates taking intensive Chinese and Japanese language courses has more than doubled in the past two years, Edwin O. Reischauer, Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, disclosed yesterday...
...interest that these little-known fields hold has aided this growth, he said. However, he pointed out that there is a scarcity of books, even in Far Eastern languages, dealing with these subjects. Also, competent teachers are lacking. Because of these difficulties, students are often afraid to enter what Reischauer termed a "frontier situation...
...language courses this year than in 1957 shows, he felt, that College students are "stepping beyond the point of general interest." Even sophomores are joining non-Western social science and languages courses, without having to "justify it to themselves," as they would have had to 15 years ago, Reischauer said...
...there are others. For instance, Johann Sebastian Bach, whom students can hear during much of the hour devoted to Music 10 (Music Building 2). The course is taught by Wallace Woodworth and titled, oddly enough, The Music of J.S. Bach. Over at 2 Divinity Avenue, Professors Reischauer and Fairbanks introduce the novitiate to Far Eastern History...