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...work of excavation has been carried on principally at Argive Heraeum and Eretria, in both of which places discoveries of a most interesting nature and scientific value were made. Professor Waldstein would rank these excavations with those at Olympia at Epidaurus, and on the Athenian Acropolis, and prospectively also with those at Delphi. The climax of research was the unearthing of the beehive tombs of the Mycenaean period, which had been sought in vain for several years. The vases found therein were nearly all in perfect preservation and the positions of the bones found massed together would indicate that...
...year. It was founded October 2, 1882, under the auspices of the Archaeological Institute of America and has been conducted by a Managing Committee of which Professor John Williams White of Harvard was the first chairman. The school is under the direct management of a permanent director, Dr. Charles Waldstein of Cambridge, England. With him is associated an annual director who is chosen each year by the managing committee, from one of the cooperating colleges in the United States. Professor White of Harvard is the present annual director...
...Waldstein was re-elected Professor of Ancient Art. Professor John Williams White, of Harvard, was elected Professor of Greek language and literature for 1893-4 and Professor G. B. Wheeler of Cornell for the year succeeding. Professor Richards of Dartmouth was elected director for a term of five years...
...main duty will be the interpretation of such passages in the writers of ancient Greece as refer to the topography and monuments of Athens, and Dr. Tarbell will have general charge of the school, and will lecture on epigraphy and architecture. The other member of the faculty, Dr. Charles Waldstein, of Kings College, Cambridge, England, will continue his lectures on Greek Sculpture...
...first the school was superintended by annual directors who were able only to spend a single winter in Athens. Then Dr. Waldstein who was connected with Cambridge University was elected permanent director, but he was able only to give a portion of the winter to the work, requiring a residence in Athens...