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...lecture will be given at 4 o'clock tomorrow in the Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House by Professor C. R. Lanman, Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Editor of the Harvard Oriental Series. His subject will be Brahmanism, and he will also take up Transmigration, Caste and Karma...
Professor Lanman is internationally famous for his researches in Indian Philology and for his work in editing the Harvard Oriental Series, which is the most authoritative extant translation of Oriental writings. He was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1850, and at the age of 17 entered Yale. After graduating from the college and Scientific School, he went to Tuebingen, Germany to study under the great Sanskritist, Rudolph Roth...
Exercise has always been a source of enjoyment to Professor Lanman. When the Hemenway Gymnasium was completed, he spent many hours on the track, counting the laps by reciting the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Since the building of the Charles River dam, he has rowed more than 7,000 miles in an 11-foot shell. He celebrated his seventieth birthday by a pull to Watertown Dam and back. "Thus," he says, "I have tried to keep up through mature life the bodily activity to which I was used...
...Selections from the New Testament and John Milton's "Nativity" read by Professor C. R. Lanman of the Department of Ancient Languages...
...Lower Reading Rm. Widener 573 Greek Prof. C. H. Moore University 19 Univ. 10 (2.30-4) History Prof. Lord Lower Reading Rm. Widener 272 History, Government, Economics Prof. Yeomans Lower Reading Rm. 367 Harvard St. History and Literature Mr. E. A. Whitney Grays 9b Grays 9b Indic Philology Prof. Lanman Widener A 9 Farrar St. Latin Prof. C. H. Moore University 19 Univ. 19 (2.30-4) Literature Prof. G. B. Weston Holyoke 25 Holyoke 25 Mathematics Prof. Osgood Sever 20 74 Avon Hill St. Mathematics and Education Prof. Osgood Sever 20 74 Avon Hill St. Medical Sciences Prof. Reid Hunt...