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...Sanskrit and Indian Studies...
Working with one of the oldest languages in existence, the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies is trying to modernize its curricula. Department Chairman Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls admits, however, that this aim has not yet been effectively reached...
...Department's main objective is still to give prospective concentrators a knowledge of Sanskrit, a difficult language which is the basis for many modern tongues...
...O.S.S. for which he did secret work throughout the East. His final excursion this fall was a combination of study and teaching. For some months he worked with a Jain monk "in a perfect Ivory Tower." Then he went on a tour of colleges lecturing in English on Sanskrit philosophy. He found that. The education system built by the British still survives. It was designed to turn out administrative officers...a type that India has less need of now. But the Indians have made the system even more rigid than before. As a result most students specialize very early...
...study music in Germany. "In Munich," he says, "I learned how to ski and speak German and that I wasn't a musician." After a year in Germany Ingalls came back to enter Harvard with the class of '36. He majored in classics, and took his first Sanskrit course, "out of curiosity." In the spring of his first year, he was "dropped" for failing to show up at an examination. He caught up in his sophomore year, stayed on Dean's list and graduated cum laude in Classics with his class...