Word: orientales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PRIAPUS AND THE POOL AND OTHER POEMS-Conrad Aiken- Boni & Liveright ($2). Here are 21 short poems and one longer one, compounded of dreams, half-thoughts and the stinging lash of passion, running in and out of obscurity, now fading into drifting leaves. Some of them, including the major piece...
After nearly a half century as professor of Sanskrit at the University, Professor C. R. Lanman, editor of the Harvard Oriental Series, will resign and become Professor Emeritus, it was announced yesterday by the University office. Dr. Lanman came to the University in 1880 and in 1903 was appointed as...
"I expect to devote most of my time after this year", stated Professor Lanman last night in commenting on his announced resignation, "in continuing the work on the Harvard Oriental Series of which there are several volumes either already on the press or nearing completion."
Professor Lanman, with the cooperation of various scholars of Eastern knowledge, has edited the Harvard Oriental Series, of which 29 volumes have already been printed. In 1889 he travelled in India and acquired on his trip many valuable books and nearly 500 manuscripts for the University. He has been twice...
There is no Republic but Turkey, and Mustapha is its President,--a part which he acts with consummate skill. A recent issue of the Westminster Gazette carries tales of the potential impetuosity of this morose leader. Intimate stories of him recall the "private annals of Peter the Great." Their verisimilitude...