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When Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck was rattling his sabre under the tremulous nose of France, a German professor stuck his finger into the dead corpus of the Sanskrit language and pulled out a word that was to kindle the fires of scientific controversy for many a long year to come. The word that Friedrich Maximilian Muller introduced to the Western world was Aryan, which in Sanskrit means nothing more than "noble...
...report this spring. Burrowing into the Badlands of Potwar, the party found five jawbones of apes, representing three new classifications, two of which more closely resemble homo sapiens than any other fossil apes ever discovered.* One genus they named Ramapithecns in honor of Rama, stalwart, uxorious hero of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana. Another they christened Sitgriva-pitkeens, after Sugriva, king of the monkeys who helped Rama get his wife back from the demon-king of Ceylon. The third they named Bramapithecus for the Hindu God Brahma...
...Class II, Walter Bradford Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology; Vice-President for Class III, Edwin Francis Gay, professor of Economic History; Vice-President for Class IV, Arthur Stanley pease '02, professor of Latin and Walter Channing Cabot Fellow; Recording Secretary, Walter Eugene Clark '03, Wales Professor of Sanskrit and editor of the Harvard Oriental Series...
...manufacture of washing machines, in personnel management or building subways. Latin and Greek, either by a knowledge of the languages themselves or a complete familiarity with classical culture, are of no more use to him as working tools in the pursuit of any of these occupations than are Sanskrit, the differential calculus, or a good course in rentgenology...
...Latest plans for Mount Rushmore have the inscription not only in beautiful English but in beautiful Latin and in beautiful Chinese, Japanese or Sanskrit as well...