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...have sought out drugs to dull their physical aches and pains or to alleviate, like the nepenthe Homer describes, their mental ones. More treasured still have been the substances used to bring mortal flesh into the presence of the divine. Such was the mysterious soma, mentioned in a Sanskrit chronicle. Nomads on the Kamchatka Peninsula lofted themselves into the dazzling world of the gods with the mushroom Amanita muscaria, and discovered that the visions of one eater could be passed to as many as five others if each one drank the urine of the man before him. In South America...
Honorable mention went to Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Wales Professor of Sanskirt, for An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry. An anonymous gift established the prize...
Finally, a word of caution and an apology. Space limitations make it impossible to treat three of the smallest fields, Near Eastern Languages, Geological Sciences and Sanskrit; interested freshmen should consult the departmental offices. And remember that the guide, like the departments' PR men and your embittered senior friends, has a bias. Please don't believe everything...
...genuine lack in their experience. Seven of 14 who took one Dartmouth class on Kierkegaard billed themselves as agnostics. Students who study religion as a snap generally get their heads snapped back. For a doctorate in the subject at Columbia, graduate students need a working knowledge of Greek, Latin, Sanskrit and Hebrew, besides French and German. "You don't get marks for piety," says Stanford's Brown...
...season most of it is blanketed with four feet of water from the Arabian Sea), hence feels the boundary should be drawn halfway through the Rann. Shastri last week invoked etymology to prove that the Rann is not a sea but a swamp, deriving as it does from the Sanskrit irinam, meaning "salty marsh." Therefore, the Indian Prime Minister argued, the boundary must remain as drawn by the British way back...