The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-21
Educating the Greeks
of the

lkSls)TS -. i ne ldh
have certain territories allotted TO
them. where they dig over the ruins
| hiding statues, buildings II otheI
rel. cs Of a time when Greece was d.
the height Of its glory
The colleges which suppo TINS
| school are Harvard. Yale. Brown
| Amherst. Johns Hopkins, Columbia,
tn. College Of New jersey, the Col
iege Of the City of New York, and ives
| leyan. to which have been added
| Dartmouth, Cornell and also the uni
| versties Of Michigan. Pennsylvania,
; Virginia and California.
The Greeks Friendly to Americans.
This country has always been
friendly to US, and Americans nave
been studying Greek here since our
| beginning as u nation. When Thomas
Jeerson was President. Nicholas
Biddle visited Greece, and there was
an American named Howe who was
! urgeon general OF the Grecian fleet
in the Greek war for independence.
Henry NJ. Baird published a book on
Modern Greece as far back as 1852,
and Prof. FELTON,. of Harvard, nothe
, Amer can, wrote a volume entitled
Greece, Modern and Ancient" Charles
K. Tuckerman, who was u United
States Minister to Greece before 1870,
gave US a work on 1.-The Greeks Of
Today" and Rayard Taylor and others
have described the country.
What the Americans Arc Doing.
During my stay here I have called
at the American School. It is now
carried on in a building belonging to
the institution, situated beyond the
k-ng's palace on the slope Of the hill,
facing Mount Hymettus. The house
by a beautiful garden. Entering a
large hall, steps of Pentelic marble
lead by easy flight to the second
floor, where are the library Of the
school and the Offices OF the director.
h library is one Of the best equip
ped private ones OF the kind in
Athens, and 1t has, I should say. about
Of the school, Mr.. Hill is a graduate
of the Univers ty Of Vermont. and
later on Of Columbia, and he has with
him eight other professors, who rep
resent Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins.
Harvard. Princeton, Columbia and
some other colleges. There is one
woman among the graduate students,
a Miss Stone, who is making a spe-
cialty of the topography of ancient
Greece, and who has Travelled extern
sively throughout the interior.
The director Of the school tells me
that its 10 not sufficient TO
carry on a great archaeological work.
~ HAS AJAX F-yVV q YEA
and with this it is trying to excavate
Old Corinth, which, when in it's prime,
held 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,
a number Of other nations have SINH
lar institutions. The French are
eight or ten times as much as we
are, and their psychologists have laid
out over $3.50, 900 in their works at
Delphi. The Germans have an archie
ciog-cal institute which has spent
100000 in digging up DC Olympia.
and the Austrians and Russians have
recently entered this field.
Modern Athletics In Greece.
All the schools here are now teach
ing athletics. They nave their reguia,
exercises daily and this is
SO Of those for both girls end bows.
Inc students are required to take long
walks, and every school must have
a mnasIu which is maintained
az the cost OF the state. All the schools
near the sea teach swimming. and Il
is required that intermediate schools
practice rowing and shooting Dnrine
the last weeks of every Len gymnas-
tc competltlons are held all over
Ireece. ana the old sports are being
revived. A school of gymnastics has
been founded in Athens to teach tna
train ng masters of the various insti-
%tut!ons, and female teachers -.
Obliged TO learn all about athletics
Athens has two gymnastic clubs. ono
or which has a gymnasium to which
any one car be admitted on the -
ment of 20 cents a month and tho
is q special section for girls go
practice the Swedish movements
der the direction of a committee -
women. There are forty or more o,her
ciubs scattered over Greece, some of
which are subsidized BY RI. 80.
ment. and every now and mr.
are held In the great new stadtnm
which has been erected by an -