Word: peyster
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...school stands as follows: John Williams White (chairman). Harvard University; Henry Drisler, Columbia College; Basil L. Gildersleeve, Johns Hopkins University; E. W. Gurney, Harvard University; Albert Harkness, Brown University; Thomas W. Ludlow (secretary), New York; Lewis R. Packard, Yale College; Francis W. Palfrey, Boston; Frederic J. De Peyster (treasurer), New York; William M. Sloane, College of New Jersey; Charles Eliot Norton, president of the Archaeological Institute; William W. Goodwin, director of the School at Athens...
...under discussion in the institute for a considerable time. That committee then consisted of Prof. J. W. White (chairman), Prof. E. W. Gurney, Prof. Albert Harkness, Messrs. T. W. Ludlow, F. W. Palfrey; since that time the following names have been added to the committee : Fred'k J. d Peyster, Prof. Packard of New Haven, Dr. Drisler of Columbia, Prof. Sloane of Princeton, and Prof. Gildersleeve of Johns Hopkins. The first of these circulars proposed a plan for a permanent school at Athens as an "independent institution, subject to the control of a managing committee chosen by the Archaeological Institute...
...Frederick J. De Peyster, in a speech before the trustees of Columbia College, spoke as follows of the proposed school at Athens: "Dr. W. W. Goodwin of Harvard University, whom I consider the first Hellenic scholar in America, will assume the direction of the school. Under one of the broad rules which govern his college, professors are allowed, at proper periods, a two-years' vacation, and during their absence one-half of their salary is continued. The Archaeological Institute has raised the necessary sum to make up the amount required by Dr. Goodwin, and the school will therefore be inaugurated...