Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ignored modern China. Chiang Kai-shek was organizing a huge, bloody trap to "exterminate" thousands of Communists, but the first American journalists wouldn't arrive on the scene for another few years. Sometime between that luncheon and his arrival at Oxford months later as a Rhodes Scholar, Fairbank decided that Chinese history might be an interesting thing to try. He borrowed a book from the ex-missionary who taught Chinese at Oxford, sat down and began to memorize the characters. Thirty-eight years after that luncheon the ranking State Department East Asian man would invite Fairbank, as the most respected...
...Johns Hopkins University has a reputation that far outstrips its size (1,764 undergraduates, 2,038 grad students). Its fame lured Milton Eisenhower-former head of Kansas State and Penn State and adviser to four U.S. Presidents-to its presidency in 1956. Last week Johns Hopkins landed a seasoned scholar-diplomat to succeed him: Lincoln Gordon, 53, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs...
...increased expense almost certainly to b incurred during the next decade in connection with the growing use of computers in scholar pursuits promises to be even more formidabl. It is impossible at this point even to guess wh sums will be required in this rapidly burgeoing area, but already we have had enough experience to know that they will be considerable...
...Lincoln Center campus. In September, Fordham is opening another of its innovations: a separate experimental college in which about 30 students a year will live and study for three years with a dozen faculty members and devise their own curriculum. Father Healy calls the school-named after Cambridge Scholar Elizabeth Soule, who is joining its English faculty -an "anti-college," in which "nothing we have done in the past will be beyond questioning...
Bill Bradley, for instance, had already enrolled at Duke before he decided to go to Princeton-because he wanted to become a Rhodes scholar and figured his chances were better in the Ivy League. Center Chris Thomforde, a 6-ft. 9-in. sophomore who is the team's top scorer with an average of 15.9 points per game, fielded offers from several dozen colleges when he graduated from Long Island Lutheran High School in Brookville...