The Washington herald., 1907-01-05
SCHOLARS AT WHITE HOUSE
Receive Cordial Greeting from Pres
ident Roosevelt.
AFchaeOIOEists and PhiioIogistS Pay
Respects 10 Chief Executive.
Elect officers.

About 200 members cf the Archaeology
teal Institute and the Pathological So
clety visited the White House yesterday
afternoon 10 pay thoir respects TO the
President They were headed by their
two presidents. r. =. Seymour and Elmer
T-uesdell Before shaking hands with
thcm President Roosevelt addressed the
members Ct the societies as follows:
1T is "a real pleasure 10 greet you here
in the White House. ] should be loath to
accept the idea that at the White House,
men engaged especially in political life
were ihe only guests. feel thut q is
peculiarly the nations house, and that
the nation gains permanently and largely
according 60 the quality of the work done
by just such associations as this.
There isn't any danger of TIE United
States not making sufficient material
progress. That we can De certain To- de.
What is To be guarded against by our
people. what our people have to guard
against in themselves. is that lest in the
desire fer material progress we may for
get certain things OF the soul and OF the
niind for the lack Of which I'm a nation a.
IN an individual no material progress can
atone.
1T is a fine thing to have a body Of
scholars doing the work that you are
doing. L nope TO see more and more in
our colleges and universities the work Of
productive scholarship; for instance, take
in your own line the work that can only
be done by men and women trained in
classical studies, who. in addition 10 the
book lore take part in such actual work
Of exploration and excavation as this So
ciety has taken part in and which as
"a result develops here and there the man
who leaves % the generations that come
after him "a work which represents per
manent acquisition 60 the people Of learn
ing. Yet as laymeu appreciate learning in
others and it's results.
Il have been much interested recently
IN reading Victor Berards work on the
Phoeniciaus and the odyssey" and this
association. apart even from the actual
work il has done, Indirectly accomplishes
much more by stimulating. encouraging.
and producing the kind Of scholarship
which viii here and there produce the
work OF "a Victor Berard in our country.
I greet you and congratulate you on be-
half Of the United States for the work
you are doing for the United States"
Earlier IN the day the society held its
annual election Of officers. The Archaeo-
logical Institute elected the following:
President. T. d. Seymour; vice presidents.
Charles F. Bowditch. G. f. Moore. J.
Robinson, F. g. Tarbell. and ". l.
Wheeler; general secretary, +. W. KELSEY.
associate secretary for the Eastern
States. Mitchell Carroll; associate secre-
tary for the Middle States. F. W Ship
ley; associate secretary for the Pacific
States, IT. r Fairclaugh: treasurer. w.
Sloane: recorder. W. y. Bates; cditor-in-
chief for the journal OF the institute H.
n. Fowler. jr., Chairmen OF managing
committee for the school at Athens, J. r.
Wheeler. chairman Of managing COM
mittce Of the school at Rome. +. r West;
chairman of committee on American
Archaeological Institute. G. p Bowditch.
and chairman of the committee for the
fellowship of medieval studies, a. Mar
Quand
Those who viii serve as officers for the
Pathological Society are as follows: Press
dent. F. W Kelsey: vice presidents. =.
D. Perry and +. B. Clapp; secretary
treasurer, T. G. Moore; executive commit
tee. c. +. Bennett, T. Fitzhugh, G. Lodge.
J. G. Rolfe, Paul Shorey, and assistant
secretary, W. X. Prentice.