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Clearly the liberal education we are anxious to defend is not the patchwork of Sanskrit, airplane salesmanship, and fraternity life that we have today. It is rather a non-existent ideal towards which at least some existing institutions are working. Our job is to clarify and solidify the ideal...
...remembered overhearing some of the boys in the dorm explaining how the graders came to the B School only to find husbands; that unless you dated them, you were lost. Not only that, but they said that all the graders had majored in Fine Arts and Sanskrit in college...
Language barriers are not as insurmountable as claims that India has "222 separate languages" indicate. Three-fourths of the people are able to understand Indo-Aryan languages based on Sanskrit...
...wealthy Indian industrialist. The elderly Pied Piper, who had been up until 2 a.m. writing reports and memoranda, was sleepy but good-humored. He was given an hour to get ready. During that time he had a breakfast of orange juice and goat's milk. He heard a Sanskrit hymn and a few words from the Koran, read by a young Moslem girl. He scrawled a last-minute message to his followers. Then, with a copy of the Bhagavad-Gita (sacred Hindu poem), the Koran and an Urdu primer under his arm, a garland of flowers around his wizened...
...Passive resistance has never been complete enough to accomplish anything in the past and has resulted in violence by hoodlums which gradually subsides into nothing" stated Walter E. Clark '03. Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Master of Kirkland House in a broadcast over the Crimson Network...