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...United Nations and on lecture platforms everywhere, Hu Shih spoke boldly and forcefully against Red tyranny. Frequent ill health inclined Hu Shih to nine years of scholarly retirement in New York and Princeton, but in 1958 he again returned to Formosa to serve as president of the Academia Sinica, Nationalist China's renowned research institute. He also worked out a complex interpretive system of population analysis, which convinced him that the current estimates of some 700 million mainland Chinese were wrong and that 300 million was a closer approximation of the actual figure...
Last week, in his headquarters near Taipei, Dr. Hu Shih, 70, presided at a cocktail party in honor of new Academia fellows. Suddenly, he collapsed and died of a heart attack. His death severed one of the notable links between his present-day, divided nation and the hopeful, revolutionary years of a half-century ago when Sun Yat-sen founded the Republic of China. Like his country, Hu Shih's own family was split: one son is on the Communist mainland, another in the U.S. For his many friends, Dr. Hu Shih's epitaph could be taken from...
...native of Germany, Jaeger held an honored place in international scholarship, and his works were read in several languages. He held the International Prize in Philosophy of Italy's Academia Nazionale del Lincei, the order Pour le Merite, which is the highest scholarly honor of West Germany, the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Redeemer and the Commander's Cross of the Order of George I, both Greek honors...
Last term the Highwaymen turned down an offer from Mort Sahl to go on tour with him, unwilling to interrupt their courses even temporarily. The group's folk singing, in Daniels' words, is just "a hobby in overdrive," but it does offer an advantage: "It puts academia in touch with reality...
...bright spot is Dr. Hu Shih, 68, philosopher, poet, historian, ex-diplomat, and China's most respected scholar. Anti-Communist Dr. Hu went off to live in the U.S. after the mainland collapse. But in 1957 the Nationalists persuaded him to head up the Academia Sinica, the nation's top research organization. His 100 scholars are now hard at work studying everything from the island's nine aborigine tribes to its 33-century collection of Chinese inscriptions. Last year Dr. Hu managed to double salaries for some professors, hopes to triple them this year. But his effort...