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Harvard was shocked when the Ford Foundation said that the "seed [temporary] money," (approximately $500,000) for East Asian Studies would cease in 1975, Dean Rosovsky said yesterday. For almost 20 years Ford has provided "seed money," presumably to sustain EAS until the university could secure endowed funding.
The effect of all reductions has been outlined in a brief memorandum written by Marshall Pihl of the Council on East Asian Studies. Pihl estimates the losses to EAS will total $863,479 by 1975. More than half of the sum came from Ford; the rest has been provided by...
In a bilingual brochure, "Harvard and Japan," John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor of History and director of EAS, and Reischauer explain the United States and Japan face the danger that their economic interdependence and need for close cooperation in many fields will outrun their mutual understanding.