The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-10

Reception at Country Club Last Evening.
 Two sessions of the philologists were held yesterday, one at 9:3O o'clock in the morning and one at o'clock in the afternoon, at which fifteen papers of a technical character were read.
 Professor W. S. Scarborough, of Will berforce university, in his paper dis cussed the authorship of the "Oration Against Alcibiades," celebrated Athenian commander who was born about 450 B. C., and who was regarded as being concerned in the mutilation of the Hermae or the statues of Mer- cury Andocides was also supposed to be connected with the same crime, which compelled him finally to leave Athens. On his return he was cast into prison, but succeeded in escaping. The oration against Alcibiades seems to have been made in self-defense and is supposed by some to be the work of Andocides, while a large number of critics, both German and English, claim that it is the composition of later sophist. The object of Professor Scarborough was to show that internal evidence re- moves much of the doubt as to it's au- thorship and that we must rely mainly upon this evidence for solution of the problem. Admitting that there appear to be discrepancies. apparent contradic- tions and anachronisms, the professor claimed that the author of the oration, whoever he was, acting undeoubtrdly under stress of excitement and confu- sion, failed in both historical and chro- nological accuracy-a fact not uncom- mon in modern times.
 Professor Scarborough further claim ed that careful comparison of the Greek of the "Oration Against Alci- blades with that of the other three orations commonly admitted to be An docidean points to a common author ship. He thought that in discussion of this character, where there is such a clash of opinion among scholars, inter nal evidence ought to be of supreme Importance. For this reason he laid great stress upon it in his paper. He reviewed at great length the position held by Blass, Sluiter Water, Rhunken, Valckenaer, Wisse1er, Taylor, Schleier- rnacher, Grote, Jebb and others, taking exception to some of the views held, while admitting others. With the 'sDe o,, y4+ ct Andociden Oratores Atticos Com mentation (by Lindef) as basis, Pro- lessor Scarborough proceeded to exam inc the rhetorical forms and usages of both Antophon and Andocides- compar- ing the two orators as to style and ex- pression.
 After analysing the orations he fur ther compared individual parts with parts noting resemblances and differ ences, applying as far as possible the Aximenean rules upon which Professor Linder based his argument.
 Other papers read at the morning ses- sion were by Professor J. E. Harry. of the University of Cincinnati; Dr Charles P. G. Scott, Radnor, Pa, tsWest Indian Words in East Indian Lan- guages;;" pr. A. Gudeman, Cornell uni versity, The incongrufties in the Speeches of Ancient Historians from Herodotus to Ammianus Marcellinus- Introduction.'
 The afternoon session opened at Trowbridge library at 3 o'clock. The following were the papers and subjects discussed:
 Professor Robert s. Radford, Elmira college The Latin Monosyllables; tfieir Relation to the Accent and to Syllable Shortening in early Latin, with especia reference to the Verse of Terence.
 Dr. Homer J. Edniston, Bryn Mawl college On Diaeresis after the Second Foot of the Hexameter in Lucretius
 Dr. R. B.. Steele, Vanderbilt diversity --The Ablative Absolute in the Epistles of Cicero. Seneca, Pliny and Fronto.
 Professor Edwin L. Green, South Car olina collegeThe Optative Mood ir Diodorus Siculus.
 Dr. Charles F. c. Scott, Radnor, Pa Attraction in English; fourth paper.
 St. Louis and Ithaca contended hotlS for next years session of the American Pathological association at the bushes. meeting held yesterday morning 1T 2 Trowbridge library, the invitation ot President Schurnan, of Cornell, being
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