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Another drawback to the success of the school has been the illness of Prof. Packard, the director, who for a considerable time was too ill to direct the work of the students under his charge. In consideration of the services of Dr. Sterrett, a graduate of the school, who returned to Athens during the illness of the director, and assisted him in the work of the school, the committee made a grant of five hundred dollars, "as an expression of their gratitude for the services rendered by him to the school, and of their interest in, and high appreciation...
...report contains an interesting account of the director's house and the library of the school. This has recently received large additions, "so that when the books now ordered shall have been received it will number about eight hundred volumes (exclusive of periodicals and pamphlets), illustrating the history, geography, antiquities, and art of ancient Greece. Works of this kind are expensive, and at the end of the second year the books in the library obtained by direct purchase will have cost $2500. Of this sum the committee voted from its funds $2000." The remaining $500 was the gift...
...permanent endowment of $150,000, to take the place of the present yearly contributions of the co-operating colleges is becoming more and more important, as at the end of ten years all obligations assured by the co-operating colleges will cease. The present method of maintaining the school has been accompanied with good results in awaking a more wide-spread interest throughout the country than could ever have been accomplished with a permanent endowment. "The close union of fifteen colleges in the promotion of a common object is a spectacle unique in this country, where the relations between...
...contributing colleges to the position of director. In a few years it is hoped that a competent instructor may be obtained who will occupy the position permanently. The report, however, points out that this temporary arrangement has been an excellent one for the first few years of the school. "That the presence in various colleges of professors who shall have been resident a year at Athens under favorable circumstances, in practical direction of the school, will do much to increase the interest in the school, must be beyond dispute...
...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...