Bulletin of the School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 5

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bulletin of the School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 5: The First Twenty Years of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens The present seems a fitting time for a survey of the history of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The Twentieth Report of the School to the Council of the Institute has recently been published, and the actual work of the School in Greece is in its twentieth year. It was at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, on May 21, 1881, that a committee was appointed to devise a plan for the crea tion at Athens of an American School of Classical Literature, Art, and Antiquities, and to carry the plan into immediate exe cution should it appear well to do so, and on December 20 of that year the Committee issued a circular appealing for aid to the colleges which have been the chief supporters of the School during these twenty years. If our old friend Herodotus had my theme, I am sure that he would begin his story with the early relations of America with Greece, before the founding of our School, and I should like to follow the course which he would approve. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.