The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19
EDUCATING THE GREEKS-By Fr1k G.. Carpenter

, are low. Day scholars pay from S1 to | $5 a month, and boarders only $20 a | month, which includes everything, rooms, | meals and even the books. I was taken through the school by the daughter of directress, a beautiful girl of the Greek 1 type.
 Thirteen Hundred Greek Maidens | l wish I could show you these 1900 Grecian maidens whom I saw at this vassar of Athens. The girls of this country are notably handsome, and l those of the Arsakeion, coming out of | the evell-to- do classes of the people, | would be esteemed fne-looking in any part of the world. They have fine | forms, kept so by the compulsory gym nastics, rosy cheeks from the pure air | of the Mediterranean, and features as classic as those of the ancient Greek statues. The girls speak Creek which l is more refined than the modern Greek heard on the streets. They read the classics at sight, and little ones of 12 and 13 mouth Herodotus and Homer.
 Indeed, the way the modern Greek girl talks strikes every stranger as some
 what uncanny It makes one think of
 the remark of the American woman as
 to the precocity of the Parisian: Why. | in Paris, even the smallest children | talk French
 The Hill School for Girls |
 here at Athens was founded by an
 American missionary just about so tyears ago. This is the Hill School for ! Girls, one of the most popular in Greece and now under government regulations, Tt contains about 200 pupils, or whom more than one third are boarders. The ages range from to IT, and the stu dents come from different parts or the Icountry All are taught modern Greek,
 French and English, and also the reg ular studies of our schools at nome. The school does not proselytize nor ln- terfere with the religion of the pupils. l It has a Greek church connected with l it, where practical sermon IS preach- 1 ed every Sunday
 An American Archaeological School 1t will surprise many to know that | some of our leading colleges have had an archaeological school here for the past | 30 years Each of the colleges sends | students to the school to spend year | In study and research concerning an
 cient Greece and Greek history Ihey make excavations, and have certain territories allotted to them, where they dig over the ruins, finding statues, | buildings and other relics of tune | when Greece was at the height Of it's glory.
 The colleges which support this
 school are Harvard. Yale, Brown Am
 
 l 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 Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia and | California.
 The Greeks Friendly to Americans
 This country has always been friend Fly to us, and Americans have been | studying Greek here since our begin
 ming as a nation. When Thomas Jeff ferson was President Nicholas Riddle visited Greece, and there was an Amer l ican named Howe who was surgeon general of the Greclan fleet in the I Greek war for Independence. Henry M.
 Baird published book on Modern Greece as far back as 1852. and Pro- lessor Felton of Harvard, another American. wrote volume entitled l"Greece. Ant ont and Modern" Charles K Tuckerman. who was our United States minister to Greece before 1870 gave us a work on "The Greeks of
 Today" and Bayard Taylor and others have described the country.
 During the stay here have called at