The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-19

| ing ancient Greece and Greek history
they make excavations. and ser
tain territories allotted TO them. where
| they dig over the ruins. finding statues
when Greece was at the height OF It's
! glory
{ The colleges which support this
! school arc Harvard, Yale. Brown, Am
hcrst, Johns Hopkins. Columbia. the
College OF New Jersey. the College OF
the City OF New York and Wesleyan. to
| which have been added Dartmouth
! Cornell. and also the universities Of
I Michigan. Pennsylvania. Virginia and
| California
The Grecits Friendly to Americans.
This country has always been friend
| ~ 10 us, and Americans have been
| studying Greek here since our begin
ming as a nation. When Thomas .ieff-
erson was President. Nicholas Biddle
| visited Greece. and there was an Amer
llcan named Howe who was surgeon
| general OF the Grecian neet in the
| Greek War for Independence. Henry NJ.
Baird published a book on Modern
Grecce as far back as 1852, and Prof.
] telton OF Harvard. another American,
wrote a volume entitled Greece. An
icicnt and Modern Charles *. Tuck
| crman who was our United States min
4 istcr 10 Greece before 1870 gave us "a
work on The Greeks OF day" and
| f''fSdI q II dyIOr ana others have IcS-
cr!bcd the country.
! What the Americana Arc Doing
! During my stay here I have called
at the American school. It is now car
iicd on In building belonging 10 tho
institution, situated beyond the King
palace on tho slorc OF tho hill. facing
Mount Hymcttus. The house cost
about $4,000 and is surrounded by a
beautiful garden. Entering large
hall. steps of Pcntcic marble lead by
easy flight to the second floor, where
are the library of the school and the
! offices Of the director. The library is
one or the best equipped private ones
| or the kind In Athens, and it has,
/ should say, about 5000 volumes The
present director of the school, Mr. Hill.
is graduate of the University OF
Vermont, and later on OF Columbia.
and he has with him eight other pro-
fessors, who represent Dartmouth,
Johns Hopkins. Harvard, Princeton
Columbia and some other colleges
Ihere is one woman among the gradu-
ate students. Miss Stone. who is ma X
Ing specially of the topography Of
| ancient Greece, and who has travcle !
extensively throughout the Interior
/ The director Of the school tells me
! that It's allowance is not sufficient to
carry on a great archaeological work
| 1t has something like 1000 a year.
and with this it Is trying to excavate
Old Corinth, which. when in its prime,
| neld half a million, and was the larg-
est city of Greece The Americans
| have been working there for more than
| ten years. After visiting the site ]
| hope to describe what they have done.
| In addition to the American school
q number of other nations have SINH
lar institutions The French are spend
| ING eight or ten times as much as we
are, and their psychologists have laid
out over 100000 in their work at Del
phi. The Germans have an archcologi-
cal institute which has spent $780,
900 In digging up old Olympia. and the
Anstrians and Russians have recently
| entered this field
Modern Athletics In Greece.
| All the schools here are teaching
athletics. They have their gymnastic
exercises daily, and this is so Of those
| for both girls and boys The students
are required to take long walks. and
every school must have a gymnasium,
| which is maintained at the cost Of the
! state. All the schools near the sea
| teach swimming. and 1t is required
| that the intermediate schools practice
rowing and shooting. During the last
| weeks of every Lent gynnas site com
petitions arc held all over Greece, and
| the old sports are being revived. a
school OF gymnastics has been founded
In Athens to teach the training masters
of the various institutions, and female
/ teachers are obliged to learn all about
| athletics.
Athens has two gymnastic clubs on
OF which has a gymnasium to which
any one con be admitted on the pay.
ment Of 90 cents month, and there
Is a special section for girls. who prac-
4 ticc the Swedish movements under the
i direction Of committee of women
There are forty or more other clubs
n 80 til
are subsidized by the government, and
every now and then games are held In
the great new stadium which has been
erected by an Egyptian Greek named
Avcrof.~
) Athens Grent Athletic Field.
| This structure is one Of the finest
; athletic grounds OF shc world. I went