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...keeping with what the university is trying to teach. Such are the views held by Mr. Kameny, but I wonder if his professed liberalism is of a pseudo type, for it is my belief that a liberal university should teach all subjects, military science and Sanskrit alike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC UPHELD | 5/1/1952 | See Source »

...Sanskrit and Indian Studies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guide to Fields of Concentration | 4/29/1952 | See Source »

...field is mainly of interest to prospective academicians who want a knowledge of Sanskrit, a damnably difficult language which is the basis of many modern tongues, although some students do come to get a familiarity with modern India...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guide to Fields of Concentration | 4/29/1952 | See Source »

...when T.S. Eliot juxtaposes a line from Dante with a cry from the Sanskrit epic poems, it annoys my friend, Professor X. But the students understand very well that what he means is that all literature is one expression of one human life experience. And when James Joyce plays upon 24 languages as upon a clavier they don't find it preposterous. All the languages in the world are but local differentiations of one planetary tongue. These concepts are very full of something frightening but they are also full of promise...

Author: By Thornton Wilder, | Title: Top Commencement Week | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

...when T.S. Eliot juxtaposes a line from Dante with a cry from the Sanskrit epic poems, it annoys my friend, Professor X. But the students understand very well that what he means is that all literature is one expression of one human life experience. And when James Joyce plays upon 24 languages as upon a clavier they don't find it preposterous. All the languages in the world are but local differentiation's of one planetary tongue. These concepts are very full of something frightening but they are also full of promise...

Author: By Thornton Wilder, | Title: Top Commencement Week | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

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