The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-17

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 If practical industrial education is needed anywhere in the world, should say It was needed in Greece The av- craze Greek boy on entering the uni Verslty has read less of the ancient lit erature than one who has finished the Greek course of sophomore year in Yale or Harvard. Even in the two American colleges at Constantinople, in which Greek masters teach native Greek students less is read than in like institutions in America.
 There were some amusing incidents | in the history of the university of | Athens during my winter in Athens. One was strike of the students, in { fact there were two such strikes. The 1 first was in the law school. As modern Greek law is founded on Roman law, some study of the latter is deemed es- sential as in all continental universi- 1 ties The authorities therefore deoreed that thenceforth some knowledge of Latin should be required of candidates for the degree of law, as it had not been hitherto. The students refused to attend the lectures, and In the end the authorities yielded. Another time a professor was removed from his chair. He had never published but one work; that was small and was proved to be a
 plagiary and his incompetence was mo- torious; so that one would say the case was simple enough. Such considera- tions however, were outwelghed in the
 mind of the Greek student body by his popularity and noting the success of
 their legal brethren, they followed the
 good example set, and struck too. But this was too much. The authorities re- | mained firm; but on one occasion the
 cavalry had to be called out to keep the studious youth in order The demon strations have apparently had much to do with changes in the ministry. Some one has characterized Greece as the country in which a cake of poor soap costs more than a bottle of good wine. The Greek peasant and fisher man is, neertheless, an attractive char | acter. In Greece kerosene is a govern | ment monopoly. Every day for weeks you see carts going through the Athen- ian streets laden with wineskins dis tended with must-precisely the old | Dionysiac goat skins, the leathern bot | tie of the Bible.
 | Now, whatever the break in contin- | uity between the classical period and l the present, there is no break between | the Greeks to-day and the Greeks of | the Byzantian empire. During their | long ensavement, when the Turks l were murdering and converting Greeks | as they have lately been murdering
 and converting Armenians, no access | ions further diluted their blood. And l wherever resident the Greek race feels l itself one. They speak of free Greece l and Greece enslaved; the fact that the majority are still under the Turk is ! merely an unhappy incident, that can- not last for ever. All unlike look to | Constantinople as their religious cen l ter, as their former political center, and | as rightfully their future capital. No
 one can blame the Greeks for feeling
 strongly that by rights Constantinople 1 and the eastern shore of the Aegean, as I well as Crete and the islands, should be i freed and restored to the leading Chris- tian race that dwells there. Smyrna | contains as many Greeks as Athens, l Constantinople itself twice as many,
 and more than of any other Christian
 race; the observant visitors sees good l reason for believing that they surpass I their rivals in education, wealth, polit-
 ical capacity, and in character.
 Throughout the region referred to they outnunnber all other Christians togeth- CT And who is better adapted to suc- ceed the Turk, whom no one believes
 capable of holding his ground much I longer?
 |. Europe in right in not desiring to see
 Russian there. The Greeks have built Al 4 under which all creeds and nationali-
 ties may live in peace and prosper Russia and Greece diametrically op-
 posed in the character of their govern
 ments, are united by dynastic ties, by
 innumerable family connections, and
 by community of religious faith. If
 Russia cannot have Constantinople
 herself, there is no other people whom
 she would with so little reluctance see
 established there under European
 oversight, and under guarantees which
 should secure to Russia that use of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles to which
 she is entitled. An Aegean Greek state
 would not only correspond to ancient
 facts; it would fit present conditions better than any other division of the
 territory.
 There is a prophecy current among them, that when Greece shall have a , king named Constantine and a queen named Sophia, then the city of Con- ; stantine will again become theirs, and the mosque of St. Sophia or the Byzan- tine citadel, after so many centuries of Moslem dissertation, will be restored to it's original purpose as Christian
 church, and will become again, as it was for thousand years before the Turkish conquest, the chief cathedral : of the Orthodox Christian world. The present crown prince bears the name of Constantine, and the crown princess sister of the kaiser, was baptized So- : phia For my part wish the dream might once come true.