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is one of the best equipped private
ones of the kind in Athens. and it has
l should say, about 1000 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.
There is one woman among the gradu-
ate students a Miss Stone, who is
making speciality of the topography
of Ancient Greece. and who has trav-
eled extensively throughout the in
terror.
The director Of the school tells me
that its allowance is not sufficient to
carry on a great archaeological work
1t has something like $4,000 a year
and with this * is trying to excavate
Old Corinth which. when in its prime,
held half a million, and was the larg-
est city of Greece. The Americans
have been working there for more than
10 years. After visiting the site
hope to describe what they have done
In addition to the American school,
q number of other nations have sim
liar institutions. The French are
spending eight or ten times as much
as we are and their psychologists
have laid out over 100000 in their
works at Delphi The Germans have
an arche illogical institute which has
spent 100000 in digging up old Olym-
pia, and the Austrians and Russians
have recently entered this field
Modern Athletics In Greece.
All of the schools here are now
teaching athletics. They have their
regular gymnastic exercises daily, and
this is so of those for both girls and
boys The students are required to
take long walks andseyery school must
have a gymnasium, which is main
tanned at the cost of the state. All
the schools near the sea teach swim
ming, and it is required that the inter-
mediate schools practice rowing and
shooting. During the last weeks of
every Lent gymnastic competitions are
held all over Greece, and the old sports
are being revived. A school of gym
nastics has been founded in Athens to
teach the training masters of the var
ious institutions, and female teachers
are obliged TO learn all about ath-
letics.
Athens has two gymnastic clubs, one
of which has a gymnasium to which
any one can be admitted on the pay
ment of 20 cents a month, aud there is
a special section for girls, who prac-
ticel the Swedish movements under the
direction of a committee of women
There are 40 or more other clubs scat
tered over Greece, some of which 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
Averof.
Athens Great Athletic Field.
This structure is one of the finest
athletic grounds of the world. 1 went
out to see it this afternoon. 1t is situ-
ated between mount Lykabettos and
the Acropolis, on the very site where
was the great stadion of the past. It
is of the same size and probably of the
same character. Imagine a marble
amphitheater which will seat $4,000
spectators and has an arena 500 feet
long. The marble seats rise up the
sides of a natural amphitheater made
by the hills, and over it shines the blue
sky of Greece. The arena itself if of
the shape of a great horseshoe, with
long ends 1t is covered with black
sand, and this forms a striking con-
trast to the silver white of the marble.
1t was here that the Olympic games of