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...development of higher education in southern Asia will require a great deal of time and effort, Edwin O. Reischauer, director of the Harvard-Yenching institute, declared yesterday...
...Reischauer, who returned last week from a six month tour of Asia, was pessimistic about chances for the development of a scholarly community with a true international outlook in southern Asia, even though education in East Asia has reached an extremely high level...
...situation in East Asia, where the Harvard-Yenching Institute spends about $200,000 a year, is much more promising, according to Reischauer. The money is used to establish and maintain a high quality of education and to promote research in Asian studies...
...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...