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...came, the entire family Nehru joined his nonviolent rebellion, organized strikes, whipped up civil disobedience against the British raj-and often went to jail. Vijaya Lakshmi served three terms, two years and eight months, on a food allowance of 19? per day. Her husband, Ranjit Pandit, a lawyer and Sanskrit scholar, spent about ten years in jail and died in 1944 from its ill effects...
Hunter G. Hannum, Germanic Languages and Literatures; Emanuel S. Hellman, Applied Science; John T. Hexner, Economics; Hugh F. Houston, Jr., English; Thomas W. Hoya, Government; William H. Jacobsen, Jr., Linguistics and Romance Languages; Samuel E. Karff, Social Relations; Hugh P. Kelly, Physics; Masaaki Kubo, Classics and Sanskrit; Stephen Kurzman, Philosophy; Henry J. Landau, Mathematics; Robert B. Layzer, History and Literature; Robert G. Livingston, History...
...obscure deserts, tropical jungles, foam-flecked northern fishing villages, places with exotic names like Zanzibar, edible-sounding names like the Cameroons or Tortola, improbable names like Gozo or Piddlehinton, famous ones like St. Helena or Piccadilly. No man among them can fluently speak the tongues of all-Urdu and Sanskrit, Dutch and French, Hottentot, Greek, Turkish, Cockney, Twi, Gaelic...
George L. Christopher of Dunster, Mark L. Goodman of Leverett, and Masaaki Kubo of Dudley received the annual awards. Christopher is concentrating in economics, Goodman in history and literature, and Kubo in classics and Sanskrit...
...Love. Nowadays Vinoba Bhave reads only three books: Euclid's Elements, Aesop's Fables and the Bhagavad Gita. For him, as for Gandhi, the Bhagavad Gita is the supreme book of human guidance. This great Sanskrit poem, imbedded in a larger work called the Mahabharata, is later than the Vedas and the Upanishads, and fills a role in the Hindu holy books something like that of the New Testament in the Bible. During one of his jail terms, Vinoba lectured every Sunday on the Gita. He translated it into Marathi* verse, and this work sold about a quarter...