ROWS TO WATERTOWN AND BACK ON 70TH BIRTHDAY

A 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.

Professor Lanman is internationally famous for his researches in Indian Philology and for his work in editing the Harvard Oriental Series, which is the most authoritative extant translation of Oriental writings. He was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1850, and at the age of 17 entered Yale. After graduating from the college and Scientific School, he went to Tuebingen, Germany to study under the great Sanskritist, Rudolph Roth.

"In 1880," he declared, "I came to Harvard 'the baby of the College Faculty'. Now, with the exception of Charles Sprague Sargent, I am the senior in active service, 'A dismal eminence', say some."

Exercise has always been a source of enjoyment to Professor Lanman. When the Hemenway Gymnasium was completed, he spent many hours on the track, counting the laps by reciting the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Since the building of the Charles River dam, he has rowed more than 7,000 miles in an 11-foot shell. He celebrated his seventieth birthday by a pull to Watertown Dam and back. "Thus," he says, "I have tried to keep up through mature life the bodily activity to which I was used as a boy."

Having labored for many years in the monumental work of editing the Harvard Oriental Series, Professor Lanman has recently engaged in the production of a three volume work on ancient India, consisting of more than 1,200 pages.