Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...operating colleges which support the American school at Athens are as follows : Amherst College, Brown University, College of the City of New York, College of New Jersey, Columbia College, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, University of California, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, Wesleyan University, Yale College...
...favorable report of the committee on the American School at Athens, a summary of which we give in another column, will be received with pleasure, not only by the friends of the classies but by everyone who wishes to see America occupying an equal position with European countries in archaeological pursuits and discoveries. "The object," we are told, "of the American School of Classical Studies is to furnish to graduates of American colleges without charge for tuition, an opportunity to study classical literature, art, and antiquities in Athens, under suitable guidance; to prosecute and to aid original research in these...
...third annual report of the committee on the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, which has just been published, has been prepared by Professor John Williams White, chairman of the committee, and contains much valuable and useful information about the school and its present condition...
...attendance during the first year was much larger than during the second, which the report says "was to be expected, since opportunities for systematic study at Athens under skilled direction was then offered for the first time to American students, and immediately attracted to the school pupils who have subsequently returned to other parts of Europe and to America for the completion of their studies. There is good reason to believe that a number of competent students will be in attendance at the school during the coming year...
...lack of interest felt in this country for classical archaeology has been conspicuous. By the establishment of the American School at Athens a great impetus has been given to archaeological study which will soon, it is hoped, put our school on a level with the French and German schools now doing such good work at Athens in their peculiar branch...