Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08

lOIl anu tne UTeek language 1ulS sCuOO
is supported by donations from Yale, Har
ward, Cornell, Ann Arbor, the University
of Virginia, Columbia College and several
others of our great schools, and it also re-
ceives support from a number of wealthy
citizens of America who are interested IL
the classics. Its tuition is free, and the va,
rious colleges have the right to sene such oi
their students as have taken high rank in
the classics. 1t is presided over by compe-
tent professors. and some of the greatest col
legiate men of the United States have been
at its head. Prot Goodrich, of Yale, and
Prof. Merriam, of Columbia, have each spent
a year here, and during the past
year Prof Tarbell, of Yale, has lectured to
and studied with the students. Until this year
the head of the school has been one of these
professors sent ont from home for one year
to be relieved at the end of that time by
some one from another American college.
At present, however, permanent head has
been chosen, and this head is Dr. Charles
Waldstein, of New York, who has made
himself famous in the classics and in archi-
ological study at the Kings College, Cam
bridge, England. DR.. Waldstein held a
high proiessorship at Cambridge. and he
stands at the very head of the professors of
Europe in his speciality. He will be assist
ed by professors sent out from America,
and there is no doubt but that the school
will be even better than it has been in the
past.
NOT A LARGE SCHOOL.
1t is not large school, and its students
seldom number more than eight or ten per-
sons. 1t is school of specialties, aud it
pays attention to nothing else but Greek
and the classics. Last year it had eight
students, and among these were two young
lady graduates of Wellesley college, Massa-
chusetts. The Wellesley girls proved them
selves fully the equals of the men in their
work on the Greek poets, and they can patch
up old statues, decipher inscriptions and
direct excavation quite as we'll as their
brothers. These students devote a part of
their time to Greek architecture, and they
have done a great deal IN settling some of
the questions of Greek history. One of
them, Mr.. Buck, has been excavating
near Marathon and has determined the site
of ancient Icaria, where he uncovered an
old temple. He has now left Athens and is
studying at Leipsic for the summer. Prof.
Tarbell has been experimenting ex-
cavations at Anthedon, in Beotia, and Prof.
Waldstein has made some successful
excavations near the site of old Thebes. As
l write this Prot. Tarbell has Just
started out on an excursion to Ithaka with
Prof Hale, of Cornell, and Prof.
Palmer, of Harvard. Prof. Palmer has
his wife with him, who, it will be remem-
bered, was Miss Freeman, the young girl
who was tor some years President of WeIles-
ley College.
CARP VISITS THE SCHOOL.
visited the American school this after
noon. 1t stands Just outside the city, about
a mile from the palace of the King, on the
slope of Mount Lykabettos, and not far off
from the olive surrounded home of Sopho-
Giles. You 60 by the aqueduct which Had
risn built, in your drive to it, and on its
base you have fine view of the great ruins
of the Parthenon, which stands 200 feet
above modern Athens on a rocky hill not
more than mile away. Standing upon its
roof you can see the most famous
places in Greek history and all
about you is the beautiful country
OF the Greek classics. The location is
most healthy, and the breezes from the sea.
which shines like blue diamonds at the east |
and from the silver gray mountains which |
on all sides kiss the blue skies, are fresh and |
pure. No atmosphere could be better for |
such study than this, and every surrounding |
is classic. The building is fine three-story |
structure Of brick covered with yellow |
stucco. 1t is well furnished and it has a fine |
technical library. The building cost be- +,
tween S25,OOO and $4,000, and the ground |
was given by the Greek Government through |
the diplomatic efforts of our Minister. Mr.. |
Walker Fearn, who is interested in the work |
of the school.
DIR. SCHLIEMANN'S HOME.
Within short distance of this American
school is the home of Doctor Schliemann,
the greatest Grecian explorer. 1t has mar |
BILE inscription on its front in Greek mean
ing palace of Ilion," and it is nearer a
Greek palace than any private residence T |
have ever seen. A great square, three-storv
structure of the purest Pentelic marble. The |
edges of its root are crowned with massive |
marble statues which stand boldly out |
against this bluest of Grecian skies. These |
some of the figures most famous in
Greek history and poetry, and in each of !
them is work OF fine art. In the front of |
the building are two porches or loges cut
into the walls and looking out through great |
Ionic pillars. The ceilings of these are
Irescoed and they make you think of
some OF the prettiest features of the
of Venice. The house
sthnus even WIN tne street, but on Its right
Ind its left are gardens, in which beautiful
statues look out surrounded by rose trees.
Bushes of roses climb over the winding
marble steps that lead up to the mansion
md every one OF the many rooms of the in
erior reminds one of old Greece, The whole
house is fOored with mosaic in small hits
put together in the shapes q old Greek vases
ind figures. You find Greek columns in
the halls, and the stairs of the building are
marble. The whole house is frescoed and
many of the paintings remind one Of the
walls of Pompeii. On some of the walls
ire verses in Greek characters from the old
,oets. A bust of Homer stands on the
marble mantel of the ballroom. looking ont
'etween Jupiter and Hera. There are busts
4 Minerva and pictures from the uiad. The
library contains thousands of volumes and
Is front windows give magnificent view of
he Parthenon.
EVERYTHING GREEK TO THEM.
DR.. Schliemann is infatuated with old
ireece and he wants nothing not Greciau
bout him. His servants have Greek names
nd he never changes these, though the men ,
lay be different. It is Pericles who ALWAYS
pens the door and Lycurgus lugs up the
pal from year to year. He has two pretty
hIldren, and 1 saw throughout the house ,
ne paintings of Andromache, his daughter, ;
nd looked at the photographs of his little /
oy, who has the name of Agamemnon, :
LIS vile is, you know, Greek lady. She I
nedrlV q generation ounoor thar bar | :