The sun., 1900-12-29
PIIILOLOGISTS IN SESSION.
rROr rRirr ON sHS oROW W ~ ~.
STM TfiON ~ NODgRN I,>H t.ts.
Tho Dseiinr NJ Greek In va,or ~ Modsrn Ian.
Enss~s Has tsosed . Io.. In the st'd, ~
Ii,-rar, Form and the Taste fot tnio,ins
n An Attack IN Iow~ii. Memory.


! iut" Of tho SECOND days meeting of the philo-
J l"uc,l a.sociations gathered tn this civ
( vns 'bo address delivered hrforo tho uuti"d
3 soc"'lrs IN th" evening hy rrof Thomas
: o. rro" ot Columbia l'niy"tsItr. President
! ur the Modern Language \s.uril'iuu, ON
/ 9TH" New Function of th' Nudrtn Language
! Teacher u struck n NOV" serious ton"
! than Frof GildetNleov"'s brilliant -p"''h
! ut ~" night bcfor" bat WIS marked with
, the sam" stamp of rlpe scholarship aud touched
! m" sam" note Of warning. TINT tho improve
! m"ut. IN modern scholarship and m"thod,
| must not do away with what vas acquired
! huv ~" scholarship of nfty vcar, ago
Prof Price began by pointing out tho
astonishing changes in modern "ducatioull
values, the most important OF which he held
t. hc the fact that Greek j. no longer obligatory
In college and that English French and
/ German now are In the long strurgl" that
brought this about he took his share like many
others, and with the result he has In many
respects no fault 20 find II has been advan-
tigeous for Greek. which is no longer a college
buch"ar, but Is now pursued b students for
III" love OF II. as IL should be. on the other
han !, tho enlarged study OF modern languages
hes augmented the average Intelligence of
college students bv making them moro
familiar with the literature. English and
foreign that /, shaping the future of tne race
and has opened ireer access Ia the repositories
Of specialized knowledge in which lies the
secret ot professional success.
All IL not rose colored. however, nor free
from danger. Certain results OF The change
are at present bY no means satisfactory
and on one important side of the matter Prof
Price Put articuar stress. He said.
But in the compile, play of shifting in
n
make us anxious. In all ages of modern
culture it has been the special function of
Greek literature to furnish in all the modern
nations. to all serious students Of literature
the models and the ideal OF literary form.
The student. for example, that could enjoy
his Homer not only had to know the -yn-
mctrica and harmonious development II the
nob.est story that ever formed Itself IN a human
brain. but he gained likewise the principle Of
epic narrative. 80 with DemosthcueS Plato,
lierodotus, Plndar --hs gained with the CON
tact with each 81 ecal mastcrpieC" the def
milton and the practical conception of
definite form Of literary art Above all is
this true of the great Greek dranati-t-.
Prom the days Of the early humanists
past the mid-euuch Of our century, this in
ruence OF nrcek literature upon the student
mind, in revelation ui literary form. went
on deepening. Ii this Influence were checked.
ight there not arse tor our student body.
a. a possible danger. the loss oi literary '.cl-
ing the loss Ct the delicate sense Of literary
.orn? lhi- i the thought that -ub"ro and
sOinewhat saddens our feeling "i triumph
In the SPLENDID progress of the modern edu-
The responsibility is now on the modern
Language teachers 10 see that from the point
of view OF literary form, there -hall bc no
loss. and IN this mood o! self examination
there is much ia what We see oi our American
public to make Us tear lest IN the mind OF oar
7 .Af1i tod a. 81 hn "A
indifference to the charm OF llt"rerv form.
In lyrical poetry. Tor instance. n "" can COM
pare our present stage OF production with
thc youthful poems ot Bryant and the wor;
Oi Poe there has been. i.ar, a distinct lo-s
in the practice and appreciation of noble
lyrical form.
iIe.e was something for eyaure 70 give
pain to lovers of great literature IN learning
The olher day. that in asstcninc inches IN the
Temple of Fame. the judges had not rccog-
niIrd tie claim Il the one American poet upon
whom nltur" had bestowed the sovereign
st"m%- 1I nora sadiv sit r,R -q'"Ytc %T ST Mocr,
And in the more artistic FERNS Of prose
toriln, of Hawthorne as builder Of romance,
of Webster as master OF rational form. tho
later ds"s of the cent among students
trained in new methods has shown, | fear,
. distinct loss, not only In the power of pro-
dICng exquisite prose but IT, cultivated
cana"lty Tor ,enJoH,,ns w. n% men That thai
ARE not. for the most part N" mon that ara
widely read and the men thar ar" most widely
thinl. else than their mastery of prose form.
"Giy,ug 80 much else, and itlng so richly
our modern education docs not ,e"m as YET
tn rive cit her the power to IrCdUo" models
Of literature or the cultured tast" for enjoy
Prof prices remedy ia not TO g. hacg 10
the old ~ stem. but FOR the teachers of modern
languages TO wake up 10 he rrsrpuSibility
,hov have brought upon themselves and 20
make good the deficiency by taking car" as
ia what thcy teach and how they teach IT, -
that tho ideal Of literary form may be- kept
alive nrnoup college r'pn
During the day all the societies were kept
busy listening to papers. The Archaeological
Institute s1t IN the dark nearly, all tl" I'm"
thc .teroouticnn. Prof. John Henry Wright
Of Harvard made an ingenious, attempt -
hv hpellc- Prof Platner described Tie
recent excavations in the Roman Form.
Prof Louis DYER Of oxford spok" of the
hv Prof Bcnadotc Perrin Of Yale. Prof Froth-
ingham Of Princeton and Dr. Charles Peabody
Maqy pSptrs were read before tho
Pathological. Oriental. BIBLICAL and Modern
La9ss win dcToss s a1aT@ tam t@
drsdih a1nlvsr-ary q the ,Eoet's death.
to the ,' Arch@6oricai II, zeal 'ln.titnie an inter-
estiur account of the remarkahlr work that
ha- been done for the University of tal-
he done dor in the the futurc' Mrs Phoehe 4 Hear
il at present spending 100000 q year on the
The result of the Grcn'ell and Hunt "N- b
Uloratiuns in Egypt j. already kuoNn. Or
George Rci-ner has been authorized by 7
Mrs Hearst to spend $4,000 wear for five
years in excavations and purchase m Egypt;
pr Max l'hla TO spend s35oo year for thu
same period for "NCavat ions in South America
and YuCo,an: pr Philip VI Jones. sGO0o u
wear for excavations in nliiornla and Mexico /
\ hoginning has already been made of pur- ]
chasing anthropnlogiCal material in the /
Sulu- and other of our new possessions and ,
plans for archeologicHl exploration in
those regions ap' being formed
Tn" collections all 20 20 the nivorsitv Of
California Moreover, II Will rec"iv" th" ar
tiCi"- derived 10y the expenditure OF s?0OnO
given hv Mrs Hearst for the purchase ot
antiquities illustrative Of Greek, Roman and
carly Christian life and ART, under the direc- /
tiou OF Dr Alfred Emerson President ,
Mhcclcr'S report Of Dr R"Snor'S cNrlora-
ton, in Egyr, and of br Uhlo'- finds IN south
A.. arica contains much utcr's'ir~ natter
Tn" Modern Language Association elected
thc-" officer, for next year President. Prof.
Edward = sheldon. Harvard S"crctHr,,
Prof james ". Bright. Johns Hopkins:
Treasurer. prof. Herbert +. Green, Johns
Horkin~.
An unpleasant incident marked the cnd
of the modern language meeting Tonight.
\ Mr. &. VI MagnC ut Temple College, Phill-
d"phia. IN Ia" course Of paper, entitled.
Literary Women In the Ninotc"nth Century"
took occasion to make disuar1girC criticisms
of James Russell Lowell In terms thai w"rc
not formal and that IN" associate con ~ldorod