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Charles R. Lanman, Professor of Sanskrit, Editor of the Harvard Oriental Series and Curator of Indio Manuscripts, will deliver a memorial address on "William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894): His Character and Services," in Emerson Hall, Room D, at 8 o'clock tonight. This address, which will be open to the public, is a repetition of the address delivered in December, 1894, at Philadelphia, before the First American Congress of Philologists, assembled to commemorate the public services of the most eminent American philologist of the 19th century...
Professor Whitney was for forty years a Professor of Sanskrit at Yale, during which time he did a great deal to further the prestige of that university. He was the author of a great many books on philology, besides works in his particular field of Sanskrit, he composed French and German grammars and translated several foreign books, among them being Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell." He had the general supervision of the publication of the "Century International Dictionary" and was the author of numerous writings on word derivations...
...great scholar Whitney was, indeed the greatest American scholar of his century. He was Professor of Sanskrit at Yale for forty years, and one of the men upon whose brilliant achievements was founded the prestige of Yale...
...publication of more of the volumes in the "Harvard Oriental Series," a collection dealing with the literature, history and religions of ancient India, is being seriously delayed by the war, according to a statement made by Professor C. R. Lanman, of the Department of Sanskrit, and editor of the Oriental Series...
INDIC PHILOLOGY 9. Philosophical Sanskrit...