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Honoring the first Director of Alumni Relations of the Medical School, the Medical Alumni Association has provided the capital funds needed for the establishment of the Thomas Hinckley Lanman Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Medical School. Announcement the alumni action was made jointly by Dr. Samuel A. Levine, President of the Medical Alumni Association and Dr. George P. Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine...
...life. First, he found it possible to work extensively and accomplish much. He was the first to know and translate many of the Buddhist and Peli texts. He read for his pleasure in French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Russian. Harvard's great Sanskrit scholar, C. R. Lanman, and President Eliot have both testified to Warren's impact upon the academic world...
Warren's humor, and his ability to suffer in an heroic and almost appalling quiet, are noted by Lanman. The Sanskrit scholar once joked with Warren about the latter's trouser knees which were frayed owing to his constant kneeling. Warren answered, "Ah, but when Saint Peter sees those knees, he'll say, "Pass right in, sir, pass right...
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...