Word: stanleys
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Reischauer, however, said he believes Stanley is too good a professor to lose. "He's simply terrific--a great teacher--a good, solid, sound scholar. I think he's the kind of man Harvard can't afford to lose, and something should be done to keep him here," he added...
...Stanley probably will be far from Harvard next year--Honolulu, in fact. Stanley said he has been offered, and is likely to accept, a ten-year endowment to write a history of Hawaii, focusing on the period between Captain Cook's exploration and the American annexation of Hawaii...
...great challenge--most people have not treated the indigenous Hawaiian culture as a serious thing. They haven't really seen the American-Hawaiian encounter as a significant cultural collision," Stanley said...
...Stanley said he would spend two years in Honolulu in "a period of immersion--learning Hawaiian and reading the secondary literature--which is not extensive." At the same time, Stanley will maintain some contact with Harvard, directing a $66,000 grant project given to the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research by the Luce Foundation. The grant project has two parts: it will fund Stanley's research on a new book about the future of Philippine-American relations, and it will finance a study group of Philippine scholars to discuss this topic. Stanley will lead the study group, which will...
...grant is really ideal--it permits me to continue my interest in the Philippines, and then I can get into this new project," Stanley said...