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...Sanskrit courses formerly given by Professor Lanman, will be given by Professor Barend Faddegon of the University of Amsterdam...
...Sanskrit courses formerly given by Professor Lanman, will be given by Professor Barend Faddegon of the University of Amsterdam...
...Properly speaking, the gypsies are a race by themselves, known in western Europe since 1417. In language and origin they are Hindus, speaking a corrupt Sanskrit dialect. Strong admixtures of Persian, Slavonic, Magyar and Greek blood and language were picked up in their migrations. As inhabitants of the ancient Greek empire or Empire of New Rom, they were identified as Romanoi before the prouder term Hellenes was assumed by the Greeks...
...that courses now given be reserved for those students who are foolish enough to take them. The new course should be a general survey, presenting without outside reading, all the important aspects of American, English, Scandinavian, Italian, German, Spanish, Slovakian, Greek, Latin, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Jewish, Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, Irish literature. Mostly respectfully yours. H. B. Elkins...
They come with and without "Brummy", "snig", and "sportserapana" form perhaps their prize triumvirate. In the order named, these three compose a trochaic line of no dull rythm, and, corralled into a sentence, they provide salutary exercise for those who have given up Sanskrit. For example: "It's a snig" means, not "Throw that alarm clock out of the window", but, "It is an unseen object of my desire". Those addicted to abstraction have thus a new vehicle of expression...