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...requirement for final honors in Sanskrit have been changed as follows: second year honors in Classics are not required; but instead, a knowledge of Greek equal to that necessary to pass the entrance examination in advanced Greek, and the examination in one elective course in addition. The candidate must also show a reading knowledge of Latin, German and French, and must have taken the equivalent of five courses in Indo-Iranian languages...
...Early in his career Mr. Greenough was impressed with the importance of Comparative Grammer, both in itself and as an aid to a student of the Classics, and he took up the study of Sanskrit with ardor. In 1872 he established the first courses of instruction in Sanskrit and Comparative Philology given at Harvard, and he continued to conduct these courses, voluntarily, along with his regular instruction in Latin, until the appointment of a Professor of Sanskrit...
Last June the Harvard Corporation sent to Yale a gift of books which consisted principally of a translation from the Sanskrit of the Atharva Veda. The translation was made, shortly before his death, by the late Professor W. D. Whitney of Yale, and contained a text with critical and exegetical commentary. As the translation was incomplete at the time of the author's death, a large amount of work was necessary before it could be published. This task, including revision and editing, was undertaken by Charles R. Lanman, Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard, and a graduate of Yale. The necessary...
Through Professor Charles Rockwell Lanman, of the Sanskrit Department, the Gore Hall and Sanskrit libraries have received a number of books from the private library of the late Henry C. Warren...
Edward Elbridge Sahsbury, for sixty years professor of Arabic and Sanskrit at Yale, died yesterday of pneumonia at the age of eighty-seven...