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Serge Elisseeff, Professor of Far Eastern Languages, and Michael Karpovich, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, will retire at the end of this academic year...
Professor Karpovich was also born in Russia, and came to the United States with the diplomatic mission of the Kerensky government. He joined the faculty here in 1927, and in 1949 became chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures...
...will soon assume directorship. Gaposchkin will resume his activities at Harvard next fall. Assisting him in Australia is his 16-year-old son, already an avid mathematician and astronomer. The Gaposchkins have two other children, a son studying electrical engineering as Tufts and a daughter majoring in Slavic languages at Swarthmore...
ACCORDING to legend, the Hungarians are descended from Noah's grandson Magyar. The Magyars of Hungary bear no ethnic kinship to their Slavic neighbors in the Balkans, and of all Europe's peoples are related only to the Finns and Estonians. Latecomers to Central Europe, fierce fighters and skillful horsemen, they were driven southward over the centuries from their early home on the slopes of Siberia's Ural Mountains, and in 895, under the leadership of their tribal chief Arpad, crossed over the Carpathian Mountains into the great plain that is now Hungary...
...resources of Widener Library are scarcely more helpful. There is about half a drawer of cards on "Bohemian" and most of the books are published in exotic Slavic languages. The inestimable William Dean Howells boldly commented: "To explain what Bohemian meant, or what Bohemia was... no one can quite do." And the New York Times cautioned its readers in 1858 that Bohemians are "seductive in their ways, and they hold the finest sentiments. The Bohemian cannot be called a useful member of society." Throughout history, people have seemed reluctant to explain the phenomenon of the Bohemian...