Word: reischauer
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...East Asian Studies Program is the University's most successful and massive attempt at cultivating overseas sources of funding for Harvard programs. so far, the program has raised $9 million out of the $20 million that Harvard hopes to have by June of 1977. University Professor Edwin O. Reischauer and John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, were instrumental in tapping much of the $5.5 million that has come from East Asia so far. Not only are many of the largest Japanese firms such as Nissan, Toyota and Mitsubishi providing significant amounts but individual East Asian industrialists are also...
Panelists Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of History, Leon Botstein, President of Bard College and Steven Fischer, chief counselor at Bernard Haldane Associates, a career-counseling organization, presented their views on liberal arts education, its private and public consequences, and even debated its existence...
...Reischauer said he will emphasize at the conference that "the importance of liberal education cannot out-run modern society...
...Today, generalists rather than specialists are more necessary than ever," Reischauer said...
...Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and a member of the panel, said yesterday that "the conference is a good thing," since "it's important for students to express their ideas on the subject...