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...YORK, April 1. - At the meeting of the trustees of Columbia College this afternoon, Professor Perry was transferred from the chair of Sanskrit to the Jay Professorship of Greek. Professor James R. Wheeler, at present of the University of Vermont, is to be Professor Perry's associate...
...Sanskrit Conference. General View of the Field of Indic Philology. Professor Lanman. 9 Farrar...
...Sanskrit Conference. General View of the Field of Indic Philology. Professor Lanman. 9 Farrar...
...usual March meeting of the Corporation was held here on Thursday. Several changes were made in the Faculty; among them Professor Edward G. Bourne '83 was elected to a new professorship of History in the academic department, and the University chair of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, made vacant by the death of Professor Whitney in June last, was filled by the appointment of Professor Edward W. Hopkins, now at Bryn Mawr...
After sketching Dr. Whitney's early career, Professor Lanman told of how, after graduating with distinction from Williams College, he had become interested in the study of Indology and resolved to make it his life work. His special department was Sanskrit. He was one of the most prominent members of the Oriental Society and of the American Philological Society, of both of which he was president. His genius is plain to all who see through his works the versatility of mind and capacity for labor which they reveal. Dr. Whitney's crowning achievement as a scholar was his Sanskrit grammar...