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...Tuesday night, the Council will sponsor a discussion at the New Lecture Hall involving Corliss Lamont '24, Alexander Meyendorf, and Edwin O. Reischauer, faculty instructor in Far Eastern languages, who will air "The Place of Russia in the Post-War World...
...series of discussions to be sponsored throughout the summer sessions by the Council on Post-War Problems. Some of the other well-known figures, experts in varied phases of the complex international problems which will face the world after the peace, who will speak in future meetings, are: Professors Reischauer, Black, Wright, Leontieff, Slichter, Haberler, and Doctor Sweezy...
...days the concentrator in Far Eastern languages was something of a freak. It is not surprising, therefore, that in his graduate days Edwin Reischauer should have found himself at the head of a one-man class in Chinese. It is still less surprising, that, with the present demand for men versed in the outlandish tongues of the Orient, the freak of yesterday should suddenly be transformed into the expert of almost unique utility today. He who once imbibed the cup of knowledge in solitary splendor now dispenses its to some sixty would-be Intelligence men, interpreters, and Far Eastern experts...
Born in Japan of missionary parents, Dr. Reischauer came to Harvard as a graduate of Oberlin College. Two years of intensive study in the history of Far Eastern languages won him a Fellowship from the Harvard Yenching Institute, and the opportunity for further research in Paris, Tokyo, and Peking. It was during this period that he accumulated the bulk of his truly gargantuan store of knowledge, not of Far Eastern history alone, but also of the dark and tortuous workings of the Oriental mind. At the same time, the student of history had a unique opportunity of watching history...
Meantime, in his home on Longfellow Road. Dr. Reischauer lives with his wife and two children in an atmosphere that is decidedly Oriental. Though the family doesn't eat with chopsticks, the living rooms are filled with curios and souvenirs of the East. All tend to support the view that some day, the slim, bespectacled instructor with the athletic build and the infections laugh will return to his beloved East. If he does, his mission will be one of sympathetic friendship and not of conquest...