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...years. He spent a three-week vacation at his Belmont home, interrupted only by a hurried trip to Washington, and devoted much of his time to working on the manuscript of his new book. Work on it had been stalled since President Kennedy snatched Reischauer from his Harvard professorship of Japanese History in March, 1961, and made him Ambassador to Japan...
...years. He spent a three-week vacation at his Belmont home, interrupted only by a quick trip down to Washington, and devoted much of his time to working on the manuscript of his new book. Work on it had been stalled since President Kennedy snatched Reischauer from his Harvard professorship of Japanese History in March, 1961, and made him Ambassador to Japan...
Ford said that instead of a specifically literary or historical chair, he would perfer a chair modelled along the lines of the C. Douglas Dillon Professorship of the Civilization of France, now held by Laurence Wylie. He said such a designation would allow more flexibility in courses offered in the field, and in the selection of a man to fill the chair...
Many of the objectives received a great deal more than was asked. The fund to create new academic chairs surpassed its goal by more than 20 per cent. Nineteen new chairs have been created with funds given to the Program, including the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professorship, the Aga Kahn Professorship of Iranian studies, and the Dillon Chairs of French Civilization and International Relations...
...Hamilton Gibb was aquired from Britain in 1955 with only the promise of a University Professorship and Harvard's fervent hope for the active center of Middle Eastern Studies it now has. Schlesinger (along with Frederic Merk) succeeded Fredrick Jackson Turner a generation ago as the dominant influence on American social history