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...crippled at the age of three, was never able to stand erect and even had a seat in his Warren House bathtub. He was interested in Chinese architecture and pottery and built one porch of Warren as a Chinese pagoda. In his day he was one of the outstanding Sanskrit authorities of the nation, and the department of Indic Philology has made use of the many manuscripts in the house...
Main attraction for the navy yardlings is the 3.2% fire water and cokes that are to be served. They will be welcomed at Kirkland by Dr. Walter E. Clark, House Master and Harvard's one-man Sanskrit Department, and by Dr. Clarence A. Haring, Master of Dunster House and authority on Latin-American history and economics...
...speakers will include T. A. Raman, one of India's best known journalists, Walter E. Clark, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, E. Merrick Dodds, professor of Law, and Thomas Jahkub, president of the Indian League of Boston...
Professor Clark is the only member of the Indic Philology Department, and one of the greatest authorities in America on Indian culture and history. In addition, he is one of the few English-speaking men in the world who can talk Sanskrit...
...disciples of a religious leader) is only one of many in mystic-minded India. Best known is Mohandas Gandhi's. Much more worldly, and very pro-British is Aurobindo's, which he set up 33 years ago. There Margaret Wilson responds to the name Dishta, meaning in Sanskrit the discovery of the divine self...