Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Charles R. Lanman, Professor of Sanskrit, Editor of the Harvard Oriental Series and Curator of Indio Manuscripts, will deliver a memorial address on "William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894): His Character and Services," in Emerson Hall, Room D, at 8 o'clock tonight. This address, which will be open to the public, is a repetition of the address delivered in December, 1894, at Philadelphia, before the First American Congress of Philologists, assembled to commemorate the public services of the most eminent American philologist of the 19th century...
Professor Whitney was for forty years a Professor of Sanskrit at Yale, during which time he did a great deal to further the prestige of that university. He was the author of a great many books on philology, besides works in his particular field of Sanskrit, he composed French and German grammars and translated several foreign books, among them being Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell." He had the general supervision of the publication of the "Century International Dictionary" and was the author of numerous writings on word derivations...
...great scholar Whitney was, indeed the greatest American scholar of his century. He was Professor of Sanskrit at Yale for forty years, and one of the men upon whose brilliant achievements was founded the prestige of Yale...
...just twenty-five years ago that the seven leading American societies organized to promote the study of languages and archaeology came together as a Congress at Philadelphia to do honor to the memory of Whitney...
...much comfort Alexander-wherever he now may be-is taking in the thought that, 2242 years after his early demise at Babylon, lots and lots of people on this little pin-head in the cosmos still persist in calling him "the Great." The real point is this, that Whitney's career as a man "who did things" is still a lesson, an example, an inspiration, for the young American of today...