The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-08
AMERICA IN ATHENS.
College Boys and Girls Under the
Shadow of the ParthenOn.
TIE HOUSE OF DIR. SCHLIEMANN.
How the Grsst Explorer Lives and His
Classical Servants-WilI America get
Delphi-What Will be Found Thereg

ATHENS, AUG. Z, 1SS9-lSpecial Core
spondence Of The HERALD. lit will be
surprising to many to know that Athens
has an American classical school, and that
the graduates of American colleges live
here the year round and devote themselves
to
THE STUDY OF GREEK
literature, Greek history and the Greek
language. This school is supported by do
nations from Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Ann
Arbor, the University of Virginia, Colum-
bia college and several others of our great
schools, and it also receives support from
number of wealthy citizens of America
who are interested in the classics. Its
tuition is free, and the various colleges
have the right to send such of their stud
ents as have taken high rank in the classics.
1t Is presided over by competent profess
ors, and some of the greatest collegiate
men of the United States have been at its
head Professor Goodrich, of Yale, and
Professor Merriam, of Columbia, have each
spent year here, and during the past year
Professor Tarbell, of Yale, has iectured to
and studied with the students. Until this
year, the head of the school has been one of
these professors sent out from home for
one year to be relieved at the end of that
time by some one from another American
college. At present, however, a perma-
nent head has been chosen, and this head
is DR.. Charles Waldstein, of New York,
who has made himself famous in the
classics andin archaeological study at Kings
college, Cambridge, England. DR.. Wald-
stein hold high professorship at Cam
bridge, and he stands at the very head of
the professors of Europe i'll his speciality.
He will be assisted 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
II is not a large school, and its students
seldom number more than eight or ten per-
sons. 1t is a school of specialists, and 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 Mass
achusetts. The Wellesley girls proved
themselves fully the equals of the men in
their work on the Greek poets and they
can patch up old stltues. decipher inscrip-
tions and direct excag ationsquite as well as
their brothers. These students devote a
part of their time to Greek architecture,
and they have done great deal in settling
some of the questions of Greek history
One of them, Mr.. Buck, has been excavat-
ing 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.
Professor Tarbell has been experimenting
excavations at Anthedon, in Boetia, and
Professor Waldstein has made some sue
cessful excavations near the site OF old
Thebes. As write this Professor Tarbel
has just started out on an excursion to
ItnaEs with Professor Hale, Of Cornell.
and Professor Palmer, of Harvard. Pro
al haq fic 70 rhO
1t will be remembered, was Miss Freeman,
the young girl who was for some years
president of Wellesley college.
VISITED THE AMERICAN SCHOOL
:l,is afternoon. It stands Just outside the
city about mile from the palace of the
king on the slope of Mount LykabettOs,
and not far off from the olive surrounded
home of Sophocles. You go by the acque-
duct which Hadrian 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 a mile away.
"tanding 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 faom 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 sur
rounding is classic The bulldlngls lue
three story structure of brick covered with
yellow suucco. 1t is well furnished, and ii
has fine technical library. The building
cost between 49, coo and $50 1000, and the
ground was given by the Greek government
through the diplomatic efforts of our min
lister, Mr. Walker Fearn, who is interested
in the work of the school.
Within "a short distance of this American
schools
THR HOME OF DR.. sCHLIEMASE,
the greatest Grecian explorer. 1t has
marble inscription on its front in Greei
meaning Palace of Hon." and it is nearer
a Greek palace than any private residence
have ever seen. A great square, three
story structure of the purest pentelic mar
Bile. The edges Of its roof are crowned
with massive marble statues which stand
boldly out against this bluest of Grecian
skies. These represent some of the figures
most famous in Greek history and poetry,
and each of them is a work Of fine art.
In the front of the building are two porches
or loges cut into the walls and looking out
through great marble ionic pillars. The
ceilings of these are freScoed, and they
make you think of some of the prettiest
features of the architecture of Venice.
The house stands even with the street, but
on its right and its left arc gardens, in
which beautiful statues look out sur
rounded by rose trees. Bushes of roses
climb over the winding marble steps that
lead up to the mansion, and everyone Of
the many rooms OF the interior reminds
one of old Greece. The whole house is
floored with mosaic in small bits put to
gether in the shapes of old Greek vases
and 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 reminds one of the
walls of Pompeii. On some of the wall:
are verses in Greek characters from the ole
poets. bust of Homer stands on the
marble mantel of the ball room, looking on
between Jupiter and Hera There arr
busts OF Minerva and
PICTURES FROM THE ILIAD.
The library contains thousands Of volumes
and its front windows give magnificent
view of the Parthenon-
DR.. Schllemann is infatuated with ole
Greece, and he wants nothing not GreciaI
about him His servants have Greel
names, and he never changes these, though
the men may he different. 1t is Pericle:
who always opens the door, and Lycurgus
lngs up the coal from year to year. Ht
has two pretty children, and saw through
out the house the paintings OF Andromache
his daughter, and looked at the photo
graphs of his little boy, who has the name
Of Agamemnon His wife is, you know, q
Greek lady. She is nearly generation
younger than her husband, and she was q
girl studying at the great female school OF
Athens known as the ArSakion wheT
Schliemann met her. She was the bes
student in her class and when the learned
doctor found that she knew the Iliad By
heart. the gossips of Athens say that h'