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Many of the special libraries connected with the College Library remain in the Laboratories or other departmental buildings. Those now brought together in the Widener Library on the top floor of the building are the following: Room A. the Sanskrit Library; Room E, the Classical Library; Rooms F, G, H, and I, Graduate School of Business Administration; Room K, Graduate Historical Library; Room O, Bureau of Municipal Research; Room Q, German Library; Room T. Mathematical Library; Room V, Economics Library; Room W, French Library; Room X, Lowell Memorial Library (Romance Languages); Room Z, Child Memorial Library (English), Rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIRECTORY AND USES OF WIDENER LIBRARY PUBLISHED | 10/3/1921 | See Source »

There of these forthcoming works as volumes 28, 29 and 30 of the Harvard Oriental Series, edited by C. R. Lanman, professor of Sanskrit in the University, and Correspondent de I'Acedmie des Inscription et Belles-Lettres de I'Institutde France. The new volumes are called "Buddhist Legends", and are translations by Dr. E. W. Burlingame of a story-book written in the sacred language of Buddhism, the Pall, in Ceylon, 450 A. D. They give a vivid picture of ancient monastic life in India; a direct counterpart of the Legends of the Christian Saints...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY PRESS TO PRINT TRANSLATIONS | 5/28/1921 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONOR W. D. WHITNEY TONIGHT | 12/16/1919 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONOR W. D. WHITNEY TONIGHT | 12/16/1919 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Commemorate Whitney. | 12/15/1919 | See Source »

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