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...running according to schedule on the afternoon following his first exam. Mockmouse had surrounded himself in this sanctum with the material necessary to atone for three months of leisure. Late into the night he had bent his pudgy frame over Sanskrit 109. Then at four a.m. he had given up and gone...
...once hefty and healthy Mokmouse grew hollow-eyed and desperate. First he flunked his Slavic, then his Sanskrit 109. When he returned to his room, the painters were still there. The necessity of keeping painters working indoors during the winter months was the reason, they explained. There was little point in taking the last exam. So he left a forwarding address, and departed for Mexico to get his education among the natives in an unpainted adobe...
...part of the college discipline, students should be made to write 100 times daily in all languages including Sanskrit--"I will not confuse myself with adults and will try not to think on the same plane with my elders. This especially includes polities...
...press is almost entirely autonomous, and the other branches may also publish on their own. But taken all together, the Oxford University Press covers just about everything except new novels. It has published Lord Bryce's Studies of History and Jurisprudence, Stubbs's Constitutional History of England, Sanskrit and Gothic grammars and the first English translation of Pavlov's Conditioned Reflexes. Its famed dictionary (414,825 words) is the scholar's final arbiter on English words, and its books of verse, its series of Companions and its reprints of the classics are in hundreds of thousands...
Proportionately, the biggest enrollment drop in any field this year was in the Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department. The department had one concentrator in 1952. He graduated in June...