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Professor C. R. Lanman, Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Editor of the Harvard Oriental Series, lectured yesterday afternoon to a large audience in the Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House on Brahmanism and Brahman literature...
After quoting many examples of Sanskrit poetical literature, Professor Lanman described how the life of a Brahman is divided into four phases: first, the "Walk with God" or life as a student; second, the support of a family; third, the life of a forest hermit; fourth, the renunciation of the World. Karma (meaning "deed") was defined as inherited tendency, derived from some former existence, and Transmigration, as viewed by Brahman philosophy, was described as birth after birth until the Karma becomes sterile and unable to reproduce. In each successive existence, the bodily form has a relation to the previous existence...
...lecture will be given at 4 o'clock tomorrow in the Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House by Professor C. R. Lanman, Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Editor of the Harvard Oriental Series. His subject will be Brahmanism, and he will also take up Transmigration, Caste and Karma...
...Lauman, Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Editor of the Harvard Oriental Series, will speak on Brahminism next Sunday at 4.30 o'clock in the Phillips Brooks House. He will take up Theosophy, Transmigration, Karma, and Caste...
...appointment of three new lecturers at the University has recently been announced. Dr. Paul E. More A. M. '93, who taught Sanskrit at Harvard thirty years ago and has since been literary editor of the Independent and the New York Evening Post and editor of the Nation, will be a lecturer in Grek and Latin during the second half of the year 1925-26. In the Graduate School of Education Edward E. Allen '84, head of the Perkins Institution for the Blind has been named as lecturer on the education of the blind. William H. McAdams, associate professor...