Word: indicative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Christine M. Gibson, research assistant to Richards, yesterday stated that as an international language, Basic English is sufficient, practical, and universal. So simple, in fact, is the language, that persons of Chinese, Indic, and Russian origin have learned it easily...
...last day of the month Harvard students are broke, 39 is a mystic Hindu number (like Ali Babs and the Forty Thieves, of which one was just poor but honest)., and the average allowance of students in Indic Philology 39b is 39 dollars (amazing coincidence you think?). Now who takes Ind. Phil. 39b. a snap course, why that great group of takers of snap courses, the Lampoon. There we have it. Last day, 39 dollars, Ind. Phil. 39b. 'Poon. It's plain as day. THE 'POON DID IT. That's all right, folks, don't applaud. It was elementary...
...stand erect and even had a seat in his Warren House bathtub. He was interested in Chinese architecture and pottery and built one porch of Warren as a Chinese pagoda. In his day he was one of the outstanding Sanskrit authorities of the nation, and the department of Indic Philology has made use of the many manuscripts in the house...
Professor Clark is the only member of the Indic Philology Department, and one of the greatest authorities in America on Indian culture and history. In addition, he is one of the few English-speaking men in the world who can talk Sanskrit...
...other all-too common fallacy is that liberal education is best represented by Indic philology or Oriental art. This is to raise liberal education to a realm so ethereal that only the privileged few can breathe its rarefied atmosphere, and consequently it is to deny a great part of its significance. Perhaps the most important "liberal" subjects are the more mundane social sciences, provided always that they are taught not as a series of unrelated facts, but as a pattern of thought-provoking ideas...