Dr. Charles F. Andrews, expert on India, friend and confidant of Ghandi, advisor of the British government, educational colleague of Poet Rabindranath Tagore, and serene bearded religionist, visited Hanover in mid-February for a lecture on the crisis in India, under the auspices of the Round Table; and for a faculty luncheon, a chapel talk, one or two classroom lectures, and several discussions under the auspices of the Dartmouth Christian Association.
With serenity in his blue eyes, kindliness in the wrinkles which surrounded them, and dignity in his grey beard, he searched genially through the dinner menu for vegetables faithfully vegetarian—and answered questions about India.
Anecdote: Poet Tagore, in his experimental school in Bengal, teaching ten-year-old boys English, from Shelley's Hymn to Intellectual Beauty I