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...interviews but actually increase the number of trained men available for defense. Compiling the data and making it easily accessible will go far towards preventing trained men from wasting their talents in a tank while some obscure defense industry or Army office cries out for a skilled palcobotanist or Sanskrit scholar...
...prodigy. Born in an Ohio log cabin, he read the Bible at three, graduated from Muskingum College at 13, taught Hebrew at Muskingum at 16, got a Ph.D. at Yale at 18, was a full professor at 20. Harper made the study of Hebrew, theretofore deader than Sanskrit, a national fad. He started Hebrew summer classes, institutes, correspondence courses, soon had so much mail that the local postmaster's salary had to be raised. Eventually Yale nabbed him; it took Yale's largest lecture hall to hold his students; he had more mail than the university itself. They...
...slackened the pace, for the still does all his work from source material taken directly from the archives of Asia Minor, records which demand a speaking knowledge of the world's most difficult tongues. An amazed tutee once caught him translating an original Greek text directly into Sanskrit as fast as writing allowed. His scholarship has carried him from the docks of Portsmouth to friendship with luminaries such as Kittredge, Russell, Gay, and Housman. Favorite recreations besides writing a book include Wodehouse, detective fiction, and travelling--the latter having taken him to every port of Europe save...
Charles Rockwell Lanman, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, emeritus, died yesterday of old age. Professor Lanman would have been 91 years old on July...
After obtaining his A.B. degree from Yale in 1871, where he made Phi Beta Kappa, Professor Lanman studied Sanskrit in Germany and became professor at Harvard in 1880. Professor Lanman edited the Harvard Oriental Series, which consisted of 36 volumes. He wrote many books and articles on East Indian subjects...