El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-18


the well to do classes of the people.
would be esteemed fine 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 a Greek which
is more refined than the modern Greek
heard on the. streets. They read the
classics at sight, and little ones OF Il
and 13 mouth Herodotus and Homer.
Indeed. the way the modern Greek
girl talks strikes a stranger as some
what uncanny. 1t makes one think of
the remark of the American woman as
to the precocity 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 80
years ago This is the Hill School for
Girls, one of the most popular in Greece
and now under government regula-
tions. 1t contains about 200 pupils, of
whom more than one-third are board
ers The ages range from six to II.
and the students come from different
parts of the country. All are taught
modern Greek, French and English,
and also the regular studies of our
schools at home. The school does not
proselytize nor interfere with the re-
ligion of the pupils. 1t has a Greek
church connected with it. where a
practical sermon is preached every
Sunday.
An American Archaeological school.
1t will surprise many to know that
some Of our leading colleges have had
past 80 years. Each of the colleges
sends students to the school to spend
a. year in study and research concern
ing ancient Greece and Greek history
They make excavations, and have GER
tain territories allotted to them, where
they dig over the ruins, finding stat
ues, buildings and other relics of a
time when Greece was at the height
of its glory.
The colleges which support this
school are Harvard, Yale. Brown. AM
herst, 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
Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia and
California.
The Greeks Friendly to Americans.
This country has always been friend
~ TO us, and Americans have been
studying Greek here since our begin
ming as a nation. When Thomas JEFF
ferson was president, Nisholas BiddIe
visited Greece, and there was an Amer
lean named Howe who was surgeon
general of the Grecian fleet in the
Greek war for independence. Henry NJ
Baird published book on Modern
Greece as far back as 1852, and Prof.
FELTON, of Harvard. another American,
wrote a volume entitled Greece. An
cient and Modern" Charles K. Tuck
erman, who was our United States
minister to Greece before 1870. gave
US work on The Greeks of Today"
and Bayard Taylor and others have
described the country
What the americans Are Doing.
During my stay here L have called
at the American school 1t is now
carried on in a building belonging to
the institut ton, situated beyond the
kings palace on the slope of the hill.
facing Mount Hymettus. The house
cost about $40, 900 and is surrounded bv
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. The library