Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-03-15
INSTITUTE OF
ARCHAEOLOGY
Work of Its Schools at Athens
Rome, Jerusalem and
Santa Fe
ADDRESSBY MITCHELL CARROLL
Great Results That Have Been
Accomplished by Classic
Scholars.

Professor Mitchell Carroll of Wash
Iington, D. c., secretary of the Amer
lean Institute of Archaeology, we'll
known as a classic scholar, author
and scientist, favored a large audi
ence gathered in the High School
assembly room last evening, with
lecture outlining graphically the great
work that has been accomplished by
the American Institute of Archaeology
and predicting by inference a great
future for the School of American Ar
lchaeology in Santa Fe. Judge John
R. McFie, president of the local ar
lchaeOlOgical society introduced Pro
fessor Carroll and after the latter
had completed. spoke forcibly on the
lplans and prospects Of the school in
this city. Owen Wood manipulated
the lantern with which the views Of
the schools at Athens, Rome and Je-
|rusalem and some of the excavation
work they have been doing, were
thrown on a large screen. Professor
Carrolrs address which was applaud
ed, may be summed up as follows:
/ One of the interesting phases OF
scholarship in North America during
the last thirty years is that through
individual effort and liberality we
have accomplished results in scientific
undertakings, that compare favorably
with the work of European nations,
aided by governmental subsidies, and
that in the sciences and in all branch
es of culture, we are rapidly taking
our place by the side of the more
highly developed countries of Europe.
The truth of this statement is par
ticularly evident in what has been
accomplished in the field of archaeolo-
gy, or the study of the material relics
of the men of ancient times. The Or
ganization that has directed this ac-
tivity and to which the credit is most
1 largely due for the results attained
is the Archaeological Institute of
America.
The Archaeological institute.
Though merely in the third decade
of it's existence, the Archaeological
Institute has already won an interna-
tiona reputation and has given to
American scholarship much of the
same lustre that the Imperial German
Archaeological Institute has shed up
on Germany.
The Archaeological Institute of
America was founded in 1879 in Bos-
h1y tot tn
$ vide and direct archaeological re-
search. Yet its mission was far broad
er, as it was intended from the start
L that it should be a society standing
e for the highest intellectual culture.
This was expressed in the words of
y the founder, at the celebration of its
: twenty-fifth anniversary: NThe real
e object of the Archaeological Institute
/ is to strengthen the hands and hearts
IS of those who hold to an America
n which shall be Intellectually and NOR
u ally not less great than she is mater
IL tally. 1t may surprise some of you
IS when I say that in the foundation OF
i. the Institute, archaeology was not di-
% rectly it's object, for We thought of il
e as an effort to resist the flood of vul
IL garity and barbaric luxury brought in
ol by the rapid and enormous increase OF
Il wealth then beginning to oyerwheln
l. the country. We viewed it as more
Il than an undertaking to dig up buried
cities and consider the condition. Of
prehistoric barbarians. We, therefore
y laid the foundation of the Institute
of that it might contribute to the higher
Is culture of the country
"a Thus the mission of the Institute is
ID threefold; d;-scientific, humanistic, anG
Id educational 1t seeks the accomplish
"a ment of its broad aims through var
O. ious agencies, D The Affiliated So
y. cieties. (2) The School of Archaeolo
rs gy. (3) The System of the lecture:
ct before the Societies. (4) Publica
le tions and (5) Archaeological excava
le tions and expeditions.
is |. The Affiliated Societies.
~ The membership of the Institut,
~ now numbering nearly three Thousand
u 10000 is distributed in thirty-two Al
III filiated Societies situated in many o
It. the leading centers of culture on tn
rs continent Among those in the Unite'
ue States are the Societies in Boston
10 New Haven, New York, Philadelphia
ls Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburg
al Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, st. Louis
ls' Kansas City, Denver, Des Moines
ng Milwaukee, Salt Lake, Los Angeles
ISL Portland and Seattle.
III Owing to the community of scholar
er- ship prevailing among the scholars i
os Canada and in the states, in the fal
mt of 1908, the Department of Canada wa
nd organized and societies have alread