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...auspices of the American Archaeological Institute of America has just come out. The school has a peculiar interest for Harvard since its organization was largely due to the energy of Professors J. W. White, Norton, Goodwin and others connected with the University. The report is submitted by Dr. Charles Waldstein Ph. D., Litt. D., L. H. D., permanent director, and Professor S. Stanhope Orris, Ph. D., L. H. D., annual director, and gives as encouraging an outlook as could be expected. The object of the school is to furnish an opportunity to study Classical Literature, Art, and Antiquities in Athens...
...international conference called to decide upon the validity of Captain Bolticher's attack upon Dr. Schliemann's theory of the ruins at Hissarlik Dr. Waldstein represented the school and was largely instrumental in obtaining the verdict of the conference, namely the upholding of Schliemann's views...
...Waldstein, the representative at Athens of the Archaeological Institute of America, has, in accordance with the directions of President Seth Low of Columbia College, withdrawn the American claims to the right to carry on the excavations at Delphi. Under the terms of a treaty but lately negotiated, the French have revived their claims to the right of making these excavations. The Archaeological Institute raised money for the purchase of the village of Castri and for carrying on the excavations, under the impression that the French, by their rejection of a former treaty, had given up all intention of making...
...whole amount which the Institute of Archaeology desired to raise for the Delphi excavation has not yet been secured. The Greek government has, however, granted a further extension of time, and Dr. Waldstein, director of the school at Athens, intends to come over to America this summer for the purpose of taking measures to complete the subscription. It is confidently expected that his efforts will be successful...
...Professor Waldstein, the head of the American Archaeological Institute at Athens, has scored a notable discovery in excavation on the Acropolis. It is in the form of a beautifully preserved head of Iris belonging to the frieze of the Parthenon, which exactly fits and completes a portion of slab at the British Museum. In recognition of his work the Greek authorities have presented the original fragment and a cast of the whole slab to the American school. The American excavations at Ikarie and Starnata have also yielded good results, and the government has given permission to dig at three other...