Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-15

cut, refined Go into the street and nine
out Of every ten natives that you see
will have the Greek nose, which is just
as distinctive as the Armenian or the
Hebrew nose.
To illustrate how the Greek type Of
feature maintains itself, Prof Grosve-
nor spoke Of two Greek women whom
he had known, who were both surpass-
ingly beautiful, and with exactly the
same type of beauty; yet one was the
Wife OF the Prince of Crete, highborn
and wealthy, the other the humblest
KIND of servant, who died of starvation
few years ago. fsNc
But people may look alike and yet be
different. The speaker pictured the
modern Greek as very like his ancestor
In traits of character. He has the same
Volubility, the same passion for asking
questions and giving gratuitous infor-
nation, the same desire for constant ac-
tiVlty. One remarkable characteristic
is his oblfviousness to the flight of time
The Greek Of today feels nearer to the
men of 1000 years ago than we do to the
Pllgrim fathers. None of us feels as
near TO the revolution as the Greek to
the earliest wars in his national history
They are contemporaneous. One rea-
son for this IS that while we spread
our minds over many subjects, the
| Greek confines his knowledge largely to
history. Another cause of this vital
| sense OF the past is the similarity OF
names The Greeks prefer their old
names to the new. Prof. Grosvenor re-
lated how, in the same class in Roberts
! College, he had one Xenophon, one Soc
rates and one Scion. There was also a
Menelaus Similarity of language is
another conserving force, The lecturer
SAID he was often asked If there was
| any resemblance between the languages
OF ancient and modern Greece. To sat
1sfy himself, he had once compared the
| first book of the Had with the vocabu-
larry OF his gardener, and found that
| seVen-tenths Of the latter was used in
| the book. The essential Identity of mod
ern and ancient Greek is a lin
| gu1stic miracle. There is more resem-
blance between modern daily in Ath-
ems and the Anabasis than between the
| worcester Spy and Chaucer While the
Hebrew has relegated his language to
| the synagogue, and the Roman speaks
bastard tongue, the Greek uses the
same speech as before the day when
Romulus founded Rome.
After commenting in an amusing
manner upon the Greek love of educa-
ton and dexterity in thriving, Prof.
| ~4ASof SAiOi luIleu 10 lut pOS1IlNte
achievements of the modern Greeks in
poetry, religion and politics He thought
It unjust to compare the modern with
their great ancestors, because that was
| standard to which we should not
dream of holding up England, France,
Germany or America. OF the recent
collision between Greece and Turkey, he
had much to say in defense and justi-
fication of the little country that had
been crushed through the intrigues of
the six great powers. He knew Of moth
ing in history, he said, to equal the
sublime heroism with which the Greeks
had hurled themselves upon the Turks
for the protection of a weak and down
! trodden people, and of nothing in his
tory to equal the shameful action of
| those six Christian nations.
If the modern Greek is not the son of
the ancient Greek, said he in conclu-
| sion, then he is his twin.
At the close of the address, a tea was
served by the committee in charge,
Mrs. George Slocomb, Miss Seaver,
Miss Mary Stone, Miss Katharine Taft
| and Miss Edith, Inman, assisted by Miss
Elnora Curtis, Miss Caroline Baker,
Miss Jean Wight of Baltimore, Miss
| Maud Armstrong, Miss Louise Wood,
Miss Mabel Moore and Miss Edith Ham
i1top