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

mere arc exceedingly low, while the re-
nulrcments as to their education arc
high. The director Of a primary school
now receives about $50 a month. and IL
ne ilrector Is woman this sum is
cut down TO S2i. Women ire not nopu-
lar as school teachers, and tho girl
teacher loses social caste as some Of
inc Lfeeks look down upon ladies who
must work for their bread AZ tho
schools rise. the wages OF teachers in
crease. Some receive $40 and $50 a
month and the directors Of the gymn-
aslums set from $40 TO $40 a month
IN the higher schools the expenses OF
students are very low. In the univcr-
stty the tuition for the four-ycar- course
is only Sl2S, with the examination fec
OF $50 for the legal and medical
branches 4 diploma costs $40. and
one can. outside bis living expenses, 20
through college for total OF about
$3.50. am told that the education In
the higher schools Is excellent. and that
IT compares favoraby with that Of our
own academies and colleges
school, for Girls.
AS II the education of the girls, 1t is
not so general as that for boys ONLY
about one sixth OF The primary schools
are girls schools, and the number who
frequent them is under 10000 The
girls do not, as q rule, so to school
with the boys, and each sex has its
own school house There are some ad-
vanced schools for females. The hes,
Is the Arsa kcion, the head of which is
here at Athens, with branches al Pat.
ras, Larissa and Corfu. The Arsakeion
is the Smith. Fassar, Wellcslcy or Bryn
AIawr of Greece. It has altogether
about 1000 students, OF whom | 400 arc
IN the branch here at Athens This
number includes, however, tho kinder
sartcn and day scholars as we'll as
those Of the college proper.
During my stay have gone through
this institution. 1t is a training col.
lcSe for teachers as we'll, and it has a
three-year normal course One OF the
compulsory studies is music, as arc
also sewing and houscwork The
courses are SO varied that a girl may
go in al six years and graduate at
something like twenty, having com
plete education according to the Creek
standard. ] am surprised at the know
ledge of the classics shown by these
girls. They are taught ancient Greek.
and they can read fiuently Homer, Pla-
Ia, and Xenophon The older girls
speak. read and write French. and not
few English.
AS TO the fees of the Arsakeion, they
are low. Day scholars pay from 81 10
So month, and boardcrs only $50 a
month, which includes everything.
rooms, meals and even the books.
was taken through the school BY the
daughter Of a directress, a beautiful
girl OF the Greek type
Thirteen Hundred Greek Maidens.
I wish could show you these 1900
Grccian maidens whom saw at this
Nassar OF Athens. The girls of this
country are notably handsome, and
those Of the Arsakeion. coming out OF
tho we'll TODD classes Of the people,
would be esteemed fine looking In any
part OF tho world. They have fine
forms, kept SO by the compulsory gym
astics, rosy checks from the pure air
Of the Mediterranean, and features as
classic as those Of the ancient Greek
statues. The girls speak Greek which
is more refined than the modern Greek
heard on the streets. They read the
classics at sight and little ones OF
twelve and thirteen mouth Herodotus
and Homer. Indeed, the way the mod
ern Greek girl talks strikes every
stranger as somewhat uncanny. It
| makes one think of the remark Of the
American woman as TO the prccocity
, Of the Partisan: why, in Paris, even
the smallest children talk French
The Hill School for Girls.
Another remarkable female school
here at Athens was founded by an
American missionary Just about eighty
! years ago This is the Hill school for
| Girls, one of the most popular in Greece
/ and now under government regulations
1t contains about 200 pupils, of whom
more than one-third are boarders The
ages range from six to seventeen and
| the students come from different parts
| of the country. All are taught mod
| crn Greek. French and English. and also
the regular studies of our schools at
! home. The school does not prosely-
tie nor Interfere with tho religion of
the pupils. 1t has q Greek Church con
nected with II, where a practical SER
mon is preached every Sunday.
An American Arch Biological School.
/ 1t will surprise many to know tina t
some OF our leading colleges have had
an archaeological school here for the
past thirty years. ach of the colleges
sends students 10 the school to spend a
year in study and research concern