[INDOLOGY] The study of Sanskrit as the epitome of uselessness

[James Hartzell]

As Sanskrit students at Harvard back when Ingalls was chair, the word around campus was that the Harvard Business School used Sanskrit as the example of the completely useless subject

> On 25 Mar 2020, at 18:39, Jayandra Soni via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> When in the 1980s I bought, second hand, Lanman's A Sanskrit Reader, the previous owner wrote this in clear writing on p. xv below Lanman's Introductory Suggestions:
> Quit now before it's too late!
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> Scanned and attached the first paragraph.
> I didn't follow the advice to quit.
> Jay Soni
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> <Written below Lanman's Introductory Suggestions.pdf>
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