Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1913 — Master of Languages. [ARTICLE]

Master of Languages.

Sir Charles Eliot, the new principal

of Hong-Kong university, is forty-sev-en years old and speaks 23 languages fluently. For many years he was in the diplomatic service and to every country to which he was sent he mastered the language, beginning with Russia In 1887. In 1889 he brought out a Finnish grammar. During his course at Oxford he had not only swept the board of all the classical distinctions within reach, ' but, while still an undergraduate, had won the Boden Sanskrit scholarship and the Syriac prize.