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When an Indian Sanskrit scholar came upon some valuable Sanskrit manuscripts in a remote Tibetan barn he sent some of the first photostatic copies to Daniel Henry Ingalls. This was natural since, as an Assistant Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies and Editor of the Harvard Oriental Series, Ingalls is the unofficial leader of a new breed of Indian historians...
...Ingalls the mixture of Sanskrit scholarship and Indian history is vital, since he as long viewed them as inseparable. He is one of the few Sanskrit scholars to study the language in Indian. He and his wife sweltered almost a vear in Calcutta while Ingalls struggled through difficult tests with a logician poet called Kalipada...
...name of the class. Subjects were taught not in open courses, but as Freshman Mathematics, Sophomore German, Junior Greek or Senior Rhetoric. But starting with 1873-4, the required and elective courses were no longer listed under the class, but under eight departments: Classics (Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Sanskrit), Modern Languages (English, German, French, Italian and Spanish), Philosophy, History, Political Science, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Natural History (geography, Botany, Anatomy and Physiology, Zoology, Geology), and Music...
...University is taking a poorhouse attitude toward the Public Speaking Department. Its propensity to cut the Department to the bone illustrates a strange sense of proportion in budgeting money and instructors. For, with no more full time teachers than the Mongolian department, and fewer courses than Sanskrit, the Department must watch sadly while students enter the fellowship of educated men incapable of effective speech...
...Friends of Mine." At the University of Nebraska, Johnson enrolled as a premed, but his heart belonged just as much to Latin and Greek. He devoured Tacitus and Thucydides ("Two friends of mine"), took up Sanskrit, learned German, threw himself into the Populist cause. He also submitted to the drilling of a stiff-backed young military instructor named John J. Pershing.* By the time the Spanish-American War broke out, Johnson was ready to enlist...