Word: sanskriting
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...only exception is the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, which encourages--even requires--auditors to participate in classroom activities...
...they want to learn, I'm glad to have them," Daniel H. Ingalls '36, chairman of that Department, said last night. "But then there's not a hell of a lot of students taking Sanskrit...
...chaos of the universe, each man must create an ordered, meaningful existence. Courses of Instruction for Harvard and Radcliffe offers a 399 page world of chaos from Sanskrit to Seismology, and the Administration decrees that students may only use four or five courses to build an ordered shelter against the whirlwind. Yet what is order but a dry formalistic structure without vibrant content, without pulsating life...
...Assam Rifles tried to enforce Indian rule. Under the British raj, the Nagas were left more or less alone. Their chief contact with the outside world came through U.S. and British Baptist missionaries, who built schools and clinics and tried to put clothes on the Naga, which in Sanskrit means "naked." A vigorous and intelligent people, thought to be distantly related to the Indonesians, the Nagas are avid for education, skilled at terrace farming, and use dogs for eating as well as hunting. Naga men, like Americans, always turn to look at the back of a girl...
...eleven years he expounded on everything from sociology to Lucretius. Prime founder of the pioneering American Law Institute, he wrote 44 books, ranging from Readings In Roman Law to The Spirit of the Common Law. At 76, already a master of French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin. Sanskrit and Spanish, he took up Chinese in order to reorganize Nationalist China's judicial system. When the Communists took over the mainland before he could finish, Pound lambasted the State Department for having abandoned Chiang Kaishek...