The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-16
PLEA IS MADE FOR
STUDY OF CLASSICS
American Academy of Arts
and Letters Elects Prof.
Shorey to Membership.
HONORS GREEK SCHOLAR
Efforts VIII Be Made to Secure
Funds for Permanent Home
of Institution

An earnest plea Tor the cont .Iurl
study of the classics was made vcs,,r.
day by the American Academy Of Ars
| and Letters at its annual meeting In
the Century Club, West Forty-thud
! street
Prof. Paul Shorey of the chair q,
! Greek language and literature Of the
University Of Chicago was elected ia
membership in the academy. lie wa,
elected to fill the vacancy caused hy
the death of Henry Adams. One other
! vacancy. created through the death Of
, DR.. Andrew d. White, remains 10 be
/ filled.
Prof. William NJ. Sloane, chancellor
OF the academy, presided. The other
| members present were Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler, Daniel Chester French
Hamlin Garland, CaSs Gilbert Robert
| Grant, Robert Underwood johnson,
Brander Matthews, Gar MelchlrS
Paul Elmer More, James Ford Rhodes,
William Roscoe Thayer. Augustus
| Thomas and Julian Alden Weir.
Must Encourage study.
The election of Prof. Shorey TO mem.
bership, in recognition of his work as
a Greek scholar, was additional cv.
dence OF a determination by the
academicians to stimulate as far a.
| possible study of the language ana
| literature Of the Greeks and Roman
To this end a resolution. in part as FOL.
lows, was unanimously adopted:
| with no desire to revive obsolete
controversies, and without attempting
to anticipate the details Of a currcu-
| -,
broad view OF present conditions
thoughtful Americans ought to Use
| their influence TO encourage rather
than to discourage the basic study o.
a substantial amount of Latin, and
whenever practicable of Greek, in our
secondary schools; the cultural study
OF Greek and especially of Latin IN
our colleges. and the scientific study ot
classical antiquity in the graduate
schools Of our universities.
| Warns of Threatened Danger.
| THE triumph of opposite policies
| will lower the intellectual and gstheto
standards OF our secondary schools
and the average culture of the Amer
lean people, and in the absence OF any
controlling sense of linguistic laws and
historic derivation will debase their
spoken and written English It viii
convert into a mere technical or vo-
cational school the liberalizing and ole
waiting American college, which how
ever imperfectly. has trained tha
statesmen, the writer's and the Leaders
| of opinion who have made the Anne
lea we know and love"
| Prof. Paul Shorey probably Is hest
known in the realm II critics ana his.
torians as an authoritv on Plato and
an exponent of the doctrines Of TN
| famous Greek philosopher Born in
| Davenport, Ia, in 1857, he received his
early education in the public schools q
Chicago. He graduated from Harvard
in 1878 with honors in classics. phi
osophy and history and later studied
in the universities OF Leipzig, Bonn
Athens and Munich. In 1884 ]. Yr-
ceived the degree of Phi. u. from t.r
University of Munich for disser;t-
ton on Plato.
From 1889 to 1892 he taught C.oc.,
Latin and philosophy at Bryu Narr
| and then was called to tho TaiN'c-,'
of Chicago to the chair OF GrccE 'a"-
guage and literature, which d, So
| occupies
Holds Many Degrees.
Prof. Shorey holds degree .
Iowa College. the University ~ NI
souri,. Johns Hopkins University IN
versity of Michigan, Er.Frr-.'s
Colorado. University Of Wisyu.s.-
Brown University. He was i.r".'.-
the American School &C '.H