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...sardonic, he enjoys the companionship of pretty women. Born in Paris on November 3, 1901, of well-to-do parents, he went to five schools as War drove his family in and out of the city, graduated from the famed Lycée Condorcet, which schooled Proust, then studied Sanskrit at the Paris School of Oriental Languages. He had published a thin book of prose poems, married Clara Goldschmidt, the daughter of a well-to-do German Jewish family, when at 22 he sailed for Indo-China on an archeological expedition...
According to an official announcement, Walter E. Clark, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, has been appointed as delegate from the University. He will attend the inaugural ceremonies at Clinton, New York...
...Marvin, Jr., Logan Bullitt, Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr., Homer D. Peabody, Jr., Arthur C. Jaros, Jr. John W. Darr, Jr., Quentin Roosevelt, William H. Heinton, Eugene H. Nickerson, James J. Pattee Jr., and Spencer Klaw. Also present at the meeting were William E. Clark '08 Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Master of Kirkland House, and Richard B. Finn '39, Chairman of the B. S. U. committee on the House problem
...deeply moved by the letter of Brother Henry Eliot [TIME, March 21] concerning the latest literary effort of Tired Tom the family poet-albeit surprised that he did not write in his native Sanskrit. For that I praise his adaptiveness...
...Charles Rockwell Lanman was born in 1850 and graduated from Yale in 1871. Appointed professor of Sanskrit here in 1880, he is now emeritus. Three years ago he was one of the eight non-Japanese scholars awarded the Japanese Medal at the celebration of the 2500th anniversary of Buddha's birth. The fabulous number of miles he has rowed since coming here has won him the title "Charles River" Lanman...