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...Harvard Yen-Ching Institute will move its headquarters from Boylston Hall to the Geographical Institute Building next fall. An extensive new wing will be built onto the Geographical Institute to accomodate the Yen-Ching library...
...Yen-Ching Institute, a research center for the study of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language and literature, has been hoping for some time to move out of Boylston Hall. Boylston is not fireproof, and much of the Institute's collection of 300,000 books and manuscripts is irreplaceable...
Reischauer further explained that the Yen-Ching has been cramped for space at Boylston, and that its present set-up does not include any air-conditioning equipment needed to maintain a humidity control on ancient volumes...
...larger part of the share" in financing the construction will be borne by the Yen-Ching Institute, an organization completely separate from the University. The University will, however, contribute to the cost of the program, since, as Reischauer says, "the plans include office and stall space for the benefit of all members of the University...
...making plenty of money in his lifetime, burly Marcel Leopold made plenty of enemies too. Finding the methodical business world of his native Switzerland too tame, Leopold went to China in the '30s to try his hand at turning a quick yen. As a big-time race-track and gambling operator, he made enough to build himself a skyscraper in Tientsin, and when the Communists took over, he was tough enough to endure 2½ years in a Red jail before they extracted all his profits...