Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-08
PATHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.

Seventeenth Annual Meeting at the Sloane Laboratory Representatives from Various Colleges Opening Address by Professor Goodwin. The seventeenth annual session of the American Pathological association was opened yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the lecture room of the Sloane laboratory on Library street, Professor w. W. Goodwin of Harvard university, president of the association, in the chair. The afternoon session was devo- ted principally to the selection and reports of committees and ether business preliminary to the work to be brought before the associa- tion.
 Among the prominent gentlemen from the various colleges of the country were the fol- lowing: Profs. Goodwin, Sheldon, Lannan and Goddard, of Harvard; Prof. Richardson and Wright, of Dartmouth college; Professors Nemeti, Hale and Flagg, of Cornell univer- sity; Professor Hardness, of Brown universi- ty; Professors Palmer and Perrin, of West ern Reserve university; Professors Marsh and Owen, of Lafayette college; Dr. I. H. Hall, of New York city; Dr. William Hayes Ward of the Independent, recently re- turned from an archaeological expedition to Assyria; Professor D'Ooge of Michigan uni versity Professor Harrison of Washington and Lee university, Professors Prentice and Merrill of Middletown, MT. .Elwell of Amherst college, Professor Benton of Rochester uni versity, Professor Hart of Trinity college, Professor Sims of Wilburforce university Professors Scott and Merriam of Columbia college, Professors Whitney, Peck, H. P. Wright, A. s. Wheeler, Tarbell and Bendi- ! lain of Yale college.
 ! At the session last evening Professor Tracy Peck presided. Before introducing the speaker of the evening Professor Peck in \ vited the members of the association to visit
 ! the various college buildings, which would | be open for the inspection of members dur \ ing the days of the convention He also | told them that an excursion on the haIbor | and Sound would be arranged for their pleas
 1 ure.
 The subject of Professor Goodwins ad-
 ! dress was 'EThe American School at Athens. !"
 | In his opening remarks the professor gave a
 | brief history of the organization of the asso-
 | citation seventeen years ago and the work it ! had accomplished. In passing he paid an
 honored tribute to the memory of the late
 \ Professor James Hadley of Yale for his high l attainments as Greek scholar.
 Passing to the subject matter of his address the speaker referred to the object of the | American school at Athens, which was to en- ! able American scholars to study with the same degree of success do those of France ! and Germany, who also have schools in that | ancient city. The opportunity forse archo- logical study in Athens was still very great ' Important excavations were constantly being ! made and every part of Greece | is filled with numerous studies for the archi- tect and the archeologist if the excavations are only made The valley of Delphi would open up great field for study. Every phi
 lolog1cal student will find great mass of work to do somewhere and nowhere can he ! do it better than on the classic grounds of Athens. In closing Professor Goodwin ! made special plea for the American school at Athens. He said the Greek government had offered plot of ground to the Am ericans near the French school pro vided they would erect school building up on it. The offer should be accepted and a school building erected, and the work should be commenced without delay. think, said the professor, that this work will be accom- plished when the needs of the school are fully understood. We need not only a school building, but also an \ endowment fund of $75,000 or 5000 The cost of a suitable building would be about $20, 900, of which about $4, 900 has been subscribed. What generous friends of the cause will come forward and give us the
 remainder.
 The speaker predicted that Athens would
 | in the not distant future be connected by railroads with the great cities of continental
 \ Europe and portion at least of it's ancient
 I glory be restored.
 | It is expected that there will be large
 attendance at to-days session. Many mem
 I bers of the association expected to be present
 | had not arrived last evening" but probably
 came on the later trains