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...Sanskrit & Papimento. Founder and household god of the language firm was Charles Berlitz' grandfather Maximilian (46 languages), who started his first school in 1878 in Providence, invented a teaching technique now referred to reverently as The Method. It consists chiefly of one precept: under no circumstances is anything but the language under study spoken in class. A corollary: for the first few lessons, all instruction is verbal-otherwise, Charles Berlitz explains, students tend to transpose pronunciation values in languages sharing the same alphabet...
Behind Nehru's pronouncement (which was promptly endorsed by the education ministers' conference) was the knowledge that Hindi has failed to replace English as a national language. With an Urdu base and a Sanskrit script, Hindi is spoken by the biggest single language bloc in all India-roughly 100 million people, most of whom live in Uttar Pradesh, the sprawling area that has traditionally supplied New Delhi with most of its politicians. Hindi has remained largely unknown in southern India, which prides itself on its command of English...
...satisfied with some of the commission's proposals, all of them subject to parliamentary debate. In many other states, the proposed new boundaries will fall short of perfectly sorting out language groups, thus emphasizing India's need for one unifying national language. Hindi (related to Urdu and Sanskrit in the Hindustani group) is spoken by 40% of Indians and understood by many more, but it is little known in South India, and, like all native Indian languages, lacks the precision and flexibilities needed in the law and the sciences. The British, first unifiers of India since...
...days of President Eliot, a student could get through Harvard College with no course more general than Sanskrit 103 despoiling his academic record. Times have changed, however. General Education has arrived, bringing with it distribution requirements. This fall, as always, the CRIMSON accepts the University's challenge. We have once more dived into the Catalogue of Courses and emerged with some promising courses meeting on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Tomorrow's "Classgoer" will suggest possibilities for Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday electives...
Phrases"), Milady, Your Figure!, Relaxation by Suggestive Therapy, and a discussion of the Kinsey Report. Folkways recorded a part of the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit; Audio Book Co. recorded all 27 books of the New Testament on 26 seven-inch disks, which can be played in a mere 23 hours 30 minutes (price...