Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-11
Room for Few Students.

The present building can accommodate
| only about seven or eight students. but
plans have been made for an extension Of
the building, and James Loeb of Kuhn.
Loeb & CO., the New York bankers. has
| offered $1,000. which is one-half of the
cost, provided other friends of the school
| will contribute an equal amount. The
building is comfortab bic, commodious con
| venient and attractive. There are well
| filled library, which the late Col. John Hay
| founded as memorial to his son Adel-
| bert: a ORA wing room, dining room,
private Office for the director and nine
| bedrooms.
| The salary of the director and his al
! lowanceS are very small compared with
| the importance of the work. but he is
| usually selected from the faculty of some
college or university in the United States.
| which continues his salary during his
| term of Office which usually is limited to
| three years An idea may be gained of
| the economy with which the school is
| managed when it is known that the av-
erage expense Of maintenance has been
only about $1,000 a year The effort Of
everybody connected with the institu-
| ton has /been to save as much money
| as possible for excavation.
| The present director is DR.. Bert Hodge
Hill of the University of Vermont, the
cago, a Ph.D. of Dartmouth and Johns
Hopkins. Prof David NJ. Robinson of
Johns Hopkins, member of the faculty.
who is now working in Asia Minor. will
next year.
| c. A. H. Sanborn OF Harvard is en-
gagged in an investigation of relics which
have been found at Corinth. and Miss
A. L. Walker of San Francisco and the
University of California is putting to-
gether fragments of statues which have
| been found there.
Original Research.
| Students are accepted from any of the
contributing institutions in the United
States upon the recommendation of their
| faculties and as many as can be accom-
| modated are taken care of in the school.
| The women students find boarding places
outside. The work is nearly all origi-
nal research among the ruins of ancient
| Greece, and each student is expected to
| select some particular line OF inquiry
| which he may develop during his stay.
| At the same time he has an opportunity
| to increase his general information on
| archaeological subjects from the WORKS
in the library, the lectures of the director
| and has the privilege of attending the
lectures at the Archaeological Society of
| Greece and at the schools of other ma
| tons. This interchange of courtesies has
| been of great advantage to all concerned.
Architecture is the most important sim
| gle subject, although majority OF the
| students are preparing themselves for
| teachers. The school does not aim solely
| to train specialists i'm archaeology, but
| chiefly desires to encourage archaeological
studies on the part of classical scholars
| which will throw light upon and give life
| to their teachings and interpretations of
| ella ssical literature. In this respect 1t has
| exercised beneficial influence upon
higher education in all parts of the Unit
| ed States. and the number of American
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| of few months is increasing every year.
| Another very important function of the
| institution has been to stimulate popu-
lar interest in archaeology among the peo-
| pie of the United States as an exponent
| of the archaeological institute. which has
it's headquarters in Washington and chap
tiers in all of the principal cities.
Among Ruins of Corinth.
The principal original research has been
carried on among the ruins of the ancient
| city of Corinth. The French school has
| been working at Delphi, where was the
famous oracle. The Germans have I'M
| covered Olympia, the ancient city of
games Both have been carrying on with
government money work which could not
have been done by private means. except
| through the aid of a Rockefeller or a
Carnegie. The American students have
been handicapped by the lack OF funds,
| although the results they have accom-
| plished, the enterprise and intelligence
they have shown and the pains they have
| taken have been more important than
money.
| Their work at Corinth has been done
under concessions from the Greek govern
ment. Corinth. you will remember was
second only to Athens for wealth, mag
nificence, learning and culture. and ex-
tended over a plain which contained no
| landmarks that could be recognized or
identified by modern scholarship up to the
time the American students began their
work. Corinth was the home of iDogenes
and other famous men, and its people dis
tinguished themselves In war as well as
in trade 1t was at Cornth that st. Paul
dwelt for several years and founded
community of the followers of the cruel
fed Jew. and two epistles of instruction
and admonition which he wrote for his
followers there may be found in the New
Testament.
At the period when Corinth was the
most important commercial city OF
Greece. and perhaps of the entire world,
and the center of the most luxurious