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Others retiring include: Thomas Lee Kelley, professor of Education, a joint author of the much used Standford Achievement Tests. Bremer Whidden Pond, Charles Eliot Professor of Landscape Architecture. Walter Eugene Clark, Wales Professor of Sanskrit. Kurt Hermann Thoma, Charles A. Brackett Professor of Oral Pathology. Langdon Warner, curator of the Oriental Department of the Fogg Museum,Elizabeth Bangs Bryant, assistant curator of insects, and James Lawder Gamble, professor of Pediatrics
Unless you have a yes for Sanskrit, better think twice before concentrating here. The department is so small that you will get a lot of attention; as a matter of fact, there were no concentrators in Indic Philology this year...
Babbitt & King Bolo. Professor George Santayana taught him philosophy and Professor Irving Babbitt, the ardent revivalist of the classic past, taught him French literature, got him interested in Sanskrit and Oriental religions (Eliot later devoted two years to their study). Bertrand Russell taught him logic and later introduced him to the London literary world as his "best pupil." Eliot breezed through his course in three years, spent the fourth year working for his M.A. But he was no bookworm. Although he was shy, he made a point of going to dances and parties: Poet Conrad Aiken, a fellow student, recalls...
...period in which Hindi would be spread everywhere (especially in the south). Further, 13 of the lesser languages would be recognized for local and provincial use. Prime Minister Nehru himself defended the government's proposal. He turned his oratory particularly against those who favored a revival of ancient Sanskrit...
...director of the Ecole Nationale de la France d'Outre Mer and professor at the College de France, Mus is a well-known specialist in Sanskrit and Annamite and has spent many years in Southeast Asia and the East Indies...